metadata

MiniBar Data about Data

This month we will focusing on Metadata - the data about data that lets us find content, contextualize it, stream it etc. As part of an upcoming funding call on 'metadata' by the Technology Strategy Board, we will be hearing more about it from some experts.

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Date: 27 August 2010
Location: Corbet Place Bar, UK

£5m Up for Grabs in Metadata Research Competition

Music Metadata Ecosystem (draft) by Frankie Roberto

Are you working with Metadata? Want to get a share of £5m for research and development? Then get yourself along to one of three events covering the Technology Strategy Board's (TSB) new £5m competition, Metadata: Increasing Value in Digital Content Collaborative R&D Competition.

The competition, launched on the 1st June, provides match-funding for projects which address three opportunities to build revenue streams with more efficient and innovative use of metadata.

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Industry & Academic Collaboration: Notes from Partnering for Innovation

Sam Michel introducing Partnering for Innovation events

If you've been following my sudden increase in Tweetage (apologies for the deluge), you'll have noticed I've been zipping around the country hosting a series of events, Partnering for Innovation.

They're designed to support two collaborative R&D competitions run by the Technology Strategy Board (TSB), and I'm rather chuffed to have been asked to help out by the event organisers, the Creative Industries Knowledge Transfer Network.

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Lessons in Open Metadata

the tube by realSMILEY

The recipe? A large public(ish) organisation (TfL) opens its data kimono to developers. Six days later, a group of geeks gather for a hack-day and a thing of beauty is born, the live tube map.

Have a look. It's rather addictive, like watching the download bar on a browser slowly creep across the screen (just me?). Congratulations to Matthew Somerville (@dracos) for hacking this together so quickly.

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Partnering for Innovation (Metadata), Cambridge

Join us at this FREE information event to find out how to enter the £5m Collaborative Metadata R&D competition.

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Date: 9 September 2010
Location: TBC, UK

Partnering for Innovation (Metadata), London

Join us at this FREE information event to find out how to enter the £5m Collaborative Metadata R&D competition. Meet other businesses and find the right technology or academic partners, learn more about eligibility and how to submit a proposal.

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Date: 6 July 2010
Location: Internet Advertising Bureau, UK

Partnering for Innovation (Metadata), Birmingham

Join us at this FREE information event to find out how to enter the £5m Collaborative Metadata R&D competition. Meet other businesses and find the right technology or academic partners, learn more about eligibility and how to submit a proposal.

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Date: 1 July 2010
Location: Maple House, UK

Webinar to Launch New Metadata R&D Competition

Metadata Has Wings by Gideon Burton

At midday today (1st June), we're delighted to welcome Alex Stanhope and Jeremy Silver from the Technology Strategy Board to Chinwag Towers for a live webinar.

They'll join me to chat about an exciting new R&D competition that focuses on metadata and how developers or rights holders can obtain grant funding to explore new business models and ways to increase revenues from their content.

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