Aggregating to Inform
An Infrastructure for Analyzing and Understanding Global Web Events
Jerry Sheehan, Manager for Government Program DevelopmentUniversity of California at San Diego
February 2006
Visual Model of Information Distribution
The Katrina Information Experience
Formal
News Sourc
Formal News Source Informal News Source
Google Maps
Newspaper of Record RSS
Photoblogs
The Modern Life of Information
World Wide Information Resources
Information Resources for Global Web Events
Trigger for Global Web Events
Global Web Event: The Katrina Blog
Rapid Development Timeline
Multiple Delivery Modalities
Akamai: The Global Web Event Trigger
8.29.05
49% Increase in Net Usage in US
• Harvest business news being already aggregated.
• Establish workflow for efficient production of business knowledge of interest to Calit2
• Experiment with mixture of formal and informal information sources.
• Develop system for production of text to podcast.
Calit2 Partner News and Knowledge Site
Information Sources Aggregator’s Desktop Server Side Software
NetNewsWire
http://research.calit2.net/industry
62 Feeds
15 Feeds
120 Feeds197 Feeds Reviewed
Once a day/5*Week
771 Posts as of 8/16/2005
ecto
RSS Screen Saver
User’s DesktopBrowser Based
User’s Desktop
Non-Browser Based
Partner News and Knowledge Version 1.0
Work Flow for Information Production
PNK Information Aggregation Trends
• Three types of data used to provide various “vantage points” on partner news.
• Commercial News
• Blogs
• General Web
• Almost all useful data is from meta-aggregators of commercial information.
Commercial Information Sources
Blog
Web
87%
8%
5%
Aggregate to Inform Version 1.0 Toolkit
• Akamai Global Web Event Trigger
• Completed, data gathered on daily basis. Email notification.
• Tagger 2 Database for RSS Feeds
• Completed, OPML import, social bookmarking keywords, user relevancy voting.
• Blog Infrastructure and Global Web Event Workflow
• Completed, server software deployed, various tools evaluated and used.
Aggregate to Inform Version 1.0 Application Areas
• Avian Flu
• Site currently under production, feeds being added to Tagger 2.
• Calit2 Related Organizations
• Feeds identified and added to Tagger 2, site under production.
• Common Alerting Protocol
• Feeds identified and added to Tagger 2, site created and being populated, CAP-->RSS--->Email complete and functional.
Global Web Event: Information Hypothesis
Commercial Information Sources
Blog
Web
87%
8%
5%
Commercial Information Sources
Blog
Web
60%
40%
5%
Pre-Global Web Event Global Web Event
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