Media and the semantic web

Posted on May 22, 2008 by agentrickard

I just finished a fascinating phone conversation with Valérie Arnould of IFRA, the worldwide research and service organization for the news publishing industry.

She wanted to talk about the changes in store for the web, particularly about the effects of the semantic web on the media industry. Now, I am not the expert here, but I do know that the Drupal community has been working towards that goal.

For me, the big challenge is convincing media companies to play nice with others in sharing both data repositories and toolsets. We can build some very compelling tools for journalism and communities if we can work together.