Paper accepted!

This abstract I wrote, together with Harry van Vliet, about the usage of Flickr the Commons was accepted for the Heritage Impact 2012 in Brighton. I'm quite excited because this will be the first in a serie of papers focussing on social media data harvesting and analyses. Read the abstract here:

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Symposium "15 years SWOCC"

On September 13 2011, the Foundation for Scientific Research on Commercial Communication (Stichting Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Commercieele Communicatie SWOCC) celebrated its 15th anniversary in style, by organizing a symposium.  Its stated goal was to flood the participants coming from academia, advertising agencies and marketing departments with scientific insights from communication science. Unusual for a scientific meeting, it was held in Dutch, except for one apologetic (German) speaker who spoke in English. In practice this meant that the line-up of speakers was exclusively recruited from the ranks of Dutch universities, several of them still working on their PhD. It was organized in the debate centre “de Rode Hoed”, beautifully situated on the imperial canal (Keizersgracht) in Amsterdam. 

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TIR/DEXA 2010, Bilbao and the Guggenheim museum

At the end of August I spend a week in Bilbao, sponsored by the MyMedia project in which I worked when I was still at my old employer Novay, thanks to Christian Wartena, my co-author and driving force behind the papers I presented. You can skip down if you just want to read about Bilbao and the Guggenheim, but I was there for the TIR 2010 workshop on text based information retrieval. The workshop was part of DEXA2010, itself part of a group of related conferences (DAWAK/ EC-web/ TrustBus/Globe/EGOVIS/ITBAM...) going on simultaneously and held at the Deusto University Bilbao. In practice, this just meant that that there were many different simultaneous tracks to choose from. Some of the most interesting talks were in fact in tracks of conferences going to as a whole. The general theme is databases, expert systems, data management, E-commerce and data manipulation but it has branched out considerably to the point where recommender systems, semantic web, bio informatics and Grid/Cloud computing have become important subjects. 

Tagged with: wilders, ec-web2010, dexa2010, tir2010, automatic text analysis, information retrieval, guggenheim, bilbao, conference,

Form and Substance, Infographics 2010-03-05

Erik and I went to see the infographics 2010 congres in Zeist. This was fun, and it gave me the opportunity to meet some new colleagues from the HU this way which I probably would not have met so quickly otherwise. The conference was all about design and journalism. Indeed it was jointly organized by BNO (Bond Nederlandse Ontwerpers, Association of Dutch Designers) and the NVJ (Nederlandse Vereniging for Journalisten, Dutch Journalists Society ) and it was my impression that the main audience of the conference (apart from HU colleagues and students) was designers and editors of journals.

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