Structured journalism: using metadata for enrichment of news databases on the web

Authors

  • Walter Teixeira Lima Junior Universidade Federal do Amapá
  • Andre Rosa de Oliveira Faculdades Integradas Rio Branco

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-3729.2017.3.25666

Keywords:

Journalism, Metadata, Multidisciplinarity

Abstract

Databases supplied with news produced for the Web represent a repository of information structured with technological potential to be reused in many ways and with other digital platforms connected via networks. However, the recovery dynamics of this material is usually limited to keywords search; moreover, that organization is composed of simple categorizations or just by tags in HTML, not allowing the flexibility of its use in other ways. Based on the observation of vehicles and journalistic products, especially BBC, this paper discusses new tools based on the adoption of controlled vocabularies, formal ontologies and other metadata standards properly structure the recovery of journalistic information inputed into databases. In this way, highlights the importance of journalistic information structured through metadata and extend it aside from its use as a repository, but in achieving “invisible relations” issues and contexts, among other differentiating factors in information quality between media groups.

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Author Biographies

Walter Teixeira Lima Junior, Universidade Federal do Amapá

Jornalista e pesquisador. Professor da Universidade Federal do Amapá. Pós-doutorando do Departamento de Mecatrônica da Universidade de São Paulo.

Andre Rosa de Oliveira, Faculdades Integradas Rio Branco

Professor das Faculdades Integradas Rio Branco. Doutorando em Comunicação Social na Universidade Metodista de São Paulo.

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Published

2017-08-01

How to Cite

Lima Junior, W. T., & Oliveira, A. R. de. (2017). Structured journalism: using metadata for enrichment of news databases on the web. Revista FAMECOS, 24(3), ID25666. https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-3729.2017.3.25666

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Journalism