http://blockslabpillar.com A weblog by Silver Oliver Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:03:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We express our identities through our collections. Online these collections take the form of Amazon wishlists, Last fm playlists and lists of friends on Facebook. Perhaps less consciously we have search histories, purchase profiles and a trail of cookies picked up from website visits. In David Siegel’s book Pull he ... http://blockslabpillar.com/2010/03/20/collections-part-3-you-as-collection/ The initial impetus for writing this series of posts was the increasing presence of information architectures driven by metadata and the impact this has on editorial curation. How does moving from a document focused view of the world to a thing focused view change the role of the collection? We took Wildlife ... http://blockslabpillar.com/2010/03/19/collections-part-2-collections-of-things/ In my last post I presented the case for the use of collections as an editorial layer on top of a metadata driven site.  One of the most common types of collection in online journalism are lists of links around a story - commonly referred to as link journalism. Link journalism ... http://blockslabpillar.com/2010/03/17/collections-part-1-collections-of-links/ How do you retain a sense of editorial voice and craft as information architectures become increasingly metadata driven? In my work with BBC Journalism we have been attempting to take the philosophy of Tom Scott's Wildlife Finder and applying it to News and Sport. Our starting point has been the Winter ... http://blockslabpillar.com/2010/03/06/the-importance-of-curation-in-a-metadata-data-driven-information-architecture/ I recently spoke at the News Linked Data Summit, a pan-news industry event looking at the potential of Linked Data.  Martin Belham and the Media Standards Trust have already blogged about aspects of the day but I wanted to add my slides and a perspective on the discussion. A topic that ... http://blockslabpillar.com/2010/01/25/news-linked-data-summit-and-native-to-the-web-controlled-vocabulries/ [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="432" caption="Government data panel - photo by Zac Beauvais"][/caption] Having just recovered from last week’s London Linked data meet up.  I thought it was time to collect together the talks and commentary from the day. Georgi and I are particularly grateful to everyone for coming, in particular those that ... http://blockslabpillar.com/2009/09/15/linked-data-meetup-london/ Georgi and I presented a jointly written (BBC, DBpedia and Rattle) paper at the European Semantic Web Conference a couple of weeks ago. My half of the presentation is avalible on slideshare. Media meets the Semantic Web - ESWC2009 -Part 1 View more documents from silveroliver. One point that I thought was particularly ... http://blockslabpillar.com/2009/07/02/media-meets-the-semantic-web/ As we build larger and larger websites it becomes increasingly difficult to scale meaningful user journeys.  Success is dependent on indentifying your key user journeys (narrative structures) and ensuring these can be dynamically populated as the site grows. Some of the largest and most successful websites have taken simple narrative ... http://blockslabpillar.com/2008/11/23/web-scale-narratives/ One of most memorable parts of the Euro IA conference was Adam Greenfield’s comment during his keynote regarding the networked fridge. “Unless anyone here works for Philips, I'm fairly certain that nobody in this room wants or will ever buy a networked fridge.” http://www.currybet.net/cbet_blog/2008/09/euroia2008_part1.php Fair point but I wanted to revisit the concept ... http://blockslabpillar.com/2008/11/08/semantic-web-and-climate-change/ Deanna Marbeck and I presented recently at the EuroIA conference in Amsterdam. The research has come on since then building on the anecdotal evidence we presented it. We hope to publish a white paper later in the year with the full research findings. URL Design for Information ArchitectsView SlideShare presentation or ... http://blockslabpillar.com/2008/11/08/urls-for-information-architects/