The document discusses a research project called PoliMedia that aims to analyze media coverage of political debates in the Dutch parliament from 1956 to 1995. The project will link multimedia sources like newspapers, television, and radio to provide insight into how different media covered topics and people over time. By connecting these sources through a portal, researchers can more easily browse and search debates and gain a better understanding of the relationships between media items. The project seeks collaboration to build structured datasets and a virtual workspace to support academic research.
2. The Team
Henri Beunders
Martijn Kleppe
Max Kemman
Geert-Jan Houben
Laura Hollink (VU)
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Johan Oomen
Jaap Blom
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3. Main research question
What choices do different media make in the coverage
of people and topics while reporting on debates in the
Dutch parliament since the first televised evening news
in 1956 until 1995?
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4. Current approach of research
Potential research questions
How is a person, subject or process covered by the media?
How do debates and arguments develop over a longer period of time?
Analysing the changing ideas, arguments and presentation in different
media
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5. Issues with current approach
+ = Too much
work
Limited
material
+ = and
different
systems
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6. PoliMedia approach
PoliMedia
Newspapers
Portal
KB
Staten
- Browse:
Generaal Television
debate and
Digitaal Sound and Vision
date
KB
- Search:
debate and Radio
person KB
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8. Roles
User requirements
Usability evaluation
Linking media and debates
Structured information about
people and debates
Published in Web standards
Academia dataset
Virtual workspace/Portal
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#6: Limited: not everything is in it, but more importantly no mark-up or pages
#8: Searching and browsing multimedial databases in a single interfaceOffering a better insight in the relations between media itemsAllowing researchers to create their own interface on top of the infrastructure
#9: EUR:RequirementsWhat do researchers want?Searching/Browsing/AnalysingMethod: InterviewsUsabilityTechniqueInterface of portalMethod: ExperimentsDelft:Semantic modelRepresenting links between the four datasetsLinkingTransforming XML into RDFAnnotate entitiesPeopleTimestampsLocationsDetect linksNISV:DatasetAcademiaDublin Core, CDMIOAI-PMH end-pointIPR: Usable for educative purposesVirtual workspaceBrowse system on linked datasetsInstallation on CLARIN serverDocumentation (API, code and datasets)