{"id":2635,"date":"2008-10-31T20:55:01","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T01:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/?p=2635"},"modified":"2008-10-31T21:02:08","modified_gmt":"2008-11-01T02:02:08","slug":"contextminer-explore-globally-aggregate-locally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/contextminer-explore-globally-aggregate-locally\/","title":{"rendered":"ContextMiner: Explore globally, aggregate locally."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/contextminer.org\/img\/cm.gif\" alt=\"ContextMiner logo\" \/><br \/>\nChirag Shah created a great tool for archivists called <a href=\"http:\/\/ContextMiner.org\">ContextMiner<\/a> which helps the archivist set up an automated set of directed web crawls across various media repositories, like YouTube. It&#8217;s already working pretty well in the pre-beta phase and has a nice set of users. But we thought that ContextMiner could do more for more people.<\/p>\n<p>Chirag and I showed ContextMiner to John Conway at <a href=\"http:\/\/wral.com\">WRAL.com<\/a> and Kirk Ross of the <a href=\"http:\/\/CarrboroCitizen.com\">Carrboro Citizen<\/a> and we all agreed that exploring the web globally could make the communty building job of local and regional news sites much more effective. How effective? We asked<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jomc.unc.edu\/faculty\/sri_kalyanaraman.html\"> Dr. Sri Kalyanaraman<\/a>, whose conceptual and empirical publications have identified a sense of community as one of the critical aspects in online information environments, to give us a hand in measure the effect on community building and ContextMiner.<\/p>\n<p>We want to make sure we do a good job of community building ourselves so we asked Michael Tiemann president of the <a href=\"http:\/\/opensource.org\/\">Open Source Initiative<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redhat.com\/about\/companyprofile\/inthenews\/tiemann.html\">vice president of Open Source Affairs at Red Hat<\/a> to help us out with that part and to make sure we have the licensing and IP clear for community use and reuse and modification.<\/p>\n<p>Now we had a great team that could help guide ContextMiner from pre-beta to a robust product for media aggregation and community building for news sites of all kinds but with special attention to local and hyperlocal sites.<\/p>\n<p>Next step is to seek funding. With the help of Jennifer Gallina of the J-School, we put together a proposal for the Knight Foundation&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/newschallenge.org\">News Challenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We submitted the proposal today and will hear later in the month.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, if you&#8217;d like to read the proposal,<a href=\"http:\/\/generalapp.newschallenge.org\/SNC\/viewitem.aspx?pguid=4a4f8c6a-d2c2-4545-82db-c8ed4b415eba&#038;itemGuid=2e570565-7a41-43d3-ac9f-7a54cf203b6a&#038;fileGui d=f15c4a20-8895-44a6-9914-e77489cbf39c\"> it&#8217;s here AND if you create an ID you can help rate the proposal at the same place.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> Our proposal does a better job of describing ContextMiner that I did above, but this picture will help some too.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/contextminer.org\/img\/cm1.gif\" alt=\"How ContextMiner works\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chirag Shah created a great tool for archivists called ContextMiner which helps the archivist set up an automated set of directed web crawls across various media repositories, like YouTube. 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