1. Project Breadcrumbs :: Álvaro Figueira (PI) :: Presentation at CoLab annual conference :: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian :: 21.09.2010 Breadcrumbs CRACS-FCUP & INESC Porto A social network based on the relations established by collections of fragments taken from online news The CoLab Annual Conference 21-22 September, 2010 Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa

2. Project Breadcrumbs :: Álvaro Figueira (PI) :: Presentation at CoLab annual conference :: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian :: 21.09.2010 We live in an age of digital information!

3. Project Breadcrumbs :: Álvaro Figueira (PI) :: Presentation at CoLab annual conference :: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian :: 21.09.2010 Newspapers, Blogs, e-pedias and... Digital Social Networks... Are on the Web Are in an online environment Are easily reachable and still... What can be shared? – URLs – Comments – Likes / dislikes – Forums

4. Project Breadcrumbs :: Álvaro Figueira (PI) :: Presentation at CoLab annual conference :: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian :: 21.09.2010 Production of news: Web Journalist Columnist Blogger

5. Project Breadcrumbs :: Álvaro Figueira (PI) :: Presentation at CoLab annual conference :: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian :: 21.09.2010 Web Consumption of news: Readers

6. Project Breadcrumbs :: Álvaro Figueira (PI) :: Presentation at CoLab annual conference :: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian :: 21.09.2010 Are readers a sink for information??

7. Project Breadcrumbs :: Álvaro Figueira (PI) :: Presentation at CoLab annual conference :: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian :: 21.09.2010 Well,... Wouldnt it be nice if we could have access to: opinions of readers opinions of readers interests of readers interests of readers relations between information they consume relations between information they consume relevancy of parts of news relevancy of parts of news statistics statistics sub-communities of readers sub-communities of readers trail of the news... trail of the news... Wouldnt it be nice if we could have access to: opinions of readers opinions of readers interests of readers interests of readers relations between information they consume relations between information they consume relevancy of parts of news relevancy of parts of news statistics statistics sub-communities of readers sub-communities of readers trail of the news... trail of the news...

8. Project Breadcrumbs :: Álvaro Figueira (PI) :: Presentation at CoLab annual conference :: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian :: 21.09.2010 Take advantage of an old habit

9. Project Breadcrumbs :: Álvaro Figueira (PI) :: Presentation at CoLab annual conference :: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian :: 21.09.2010 Clipping: saving news fragments Personal Digital Library (PDL) Collected fragments

10. Project Breadcrumbs :: Álvaro Figueira (PI) :: Presentation at CoLab annual conference :: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian :: 21.09.2010 Organizing the collected information and adding extra information TAGS COMMENTS RATES Automatic grouping procedure

11. Project Breadcrumbs :: Álvaro Figueira (PI) :: Presentation at CoLab annual conference :: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian :: 21.09.2010 Creating relations between readers strong relation weak relation

12. Project Breadcrumbs :: Álvaro Figueira (PI) :: Presentation at CoLab annual conference :: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian :: 21.09.2010 Creating a network of fragments PDL strong weak

13. Project Breadcrumbs :: Álvaro Figueira (PI) :: Presentation at CoLab annual conference :: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian :: 21.09.2010 Sharing of news fragments, tags, comments, rates, news associations, news sources, interests, statistics,...

14. Project Breadcrumbs :: Álvaro Figueira (PI) :: Presentation at CoLab annual conference :: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian :: 21.09.2010 Web Cycle between producers and consumers Information module Fragments of news, relevancy, tags, associations, comments, relations, statistics... PDL PDLs and relations Breadcrumbs

15. Project Breadcrumbs :: Álvaro Figueira (PI) :: Presentation at CoLab annual conference :: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian :: 21.09.2010 Research questions: How to integrate automatic and social classification? Is this hybrid model better than the two isolated ones? How to use and navigate in a network of fragments? How to analyse the network? Can we infer implicit links between – Different articles/events/stories? – Different readers? Can we infer interests of readers and the contribution from their participation?

16. Project Breadcrumbs :: Álvaro Figueira (PI) :: Presentation at CoLab annual conference :: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian :: 21.09.2010 The Breadcrumbs team Álvaro Reis Figueira, PhD [CRACS-FCUP & INESC Porto] (PI) Text mining, clustering and classification, social network analysis José Paulo Leal, PhD [CRACS-FCUP & INESC Porto] Systems architectures, structured document processing Luis-Francisco Revilla, PhD [UT@Austin] Social interfaces, human-computer interaction Pedro Ribeiro, PhD student [CRACS-FCUP & INESC Porto] Complex networks, parallel and distributed programming Fernando Zamith, PhD student [Cetac.Media] Online journalism, social media Elisabete Cunha, PhD student [Cetac.Media and CRACS-FCUP] Scalability in unsupervised clustering of folksonomies Henrique Alves, MSc student [CRACS-FCUP & INESC Porto] Digital libraries, metadata for usage tracking

17. Project Breadcrumbs :: Álvaro Figueira (PI) :: Presentation at CoLab annual conference :: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian :: 21.09.2010 Breadcrumbs Start date: 20-09-2010 End date: 19-09-2012