GLOCAL: Pro-am collaboration in the news production
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This paper presents the approach of the Glocal European funded project towards the co-production of news on World events, on an information marketplace involving both amateurs and professionals. It discuss the rise of user-generated content amongst worldwide media and how event modelling and technology usage may help to foster this pro-am collaboration. Glocal: Event-based Retrieval of Networked Media [1] is a large scale integrating and collaborative project which started in December 2009 for three years and involves ten partners.
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