Last week the NewsReader team got together in Trento for a face-to-face meeting. During this meeting, we discussed the current state of the project and made detailed plans for the coming months. While a lot of things can be done through discussions via email and Skype, getting together every now and then and being able to look at each other’s screens and drawing things on the flip-over is super helpful to get through some more complex issues and brainstorm about…
NewsReader is about helping information professionals make sense of the huge amounts of daily news streams. To find out how to help professionals the most, it is important to know what types of information they need, how they search for it and what the bottlenecks in current technology are. Before the summer, the NewsReader team got in touch with the Department of Information services at the Dutch House of Representatives to see whether NewsReader could be useful to them. Last week, we…
More pictures of the kick-off: please go the picasa webalbum of this meeting: NewsReader Kickoff 15 Januari 2013
We organized a special social event as a kick-off for the project: On January 15, 2013, we will meet at the Grand Cafe Amstelhoeck (formerly known as Cafe Dantzig), next to the main entrance of Stopera/Muziektheater Amsterdam (Amstel 1, 1011PN Amsterdam. Around 8.00 p.m. we will embark on the classic boat “La Reine” (http://www.classicboattours.eu/lareine/) and we will sail through the most beautiful canals of Amsterdam and enjoy a dinner and have some drinks. During the 1st Amsterdam Light Festival (http://www.amsterdamlightfestival.com/en/…
January 15 and 16, 2013 at the VUA in Amsterdam Address Vrije Universiteit (VU) De Boelelaan 1105 Amsterdam, The Netherlands Location of the meeting: room 12-A-39 (12th floor). See also Map Campus VU University Amsterdam. You’ll find the meeting room in the main building, marked with a ‘1’ on this map. Phone numbers: Piek Vossen: +31 20 5986466(university) Route description From Amsterdam Central Station: – metro tram 51, direction Amstelveen Westwijk (16 minutes), stop at: De Boelelaan/VU. (metro 51 departs beneath Central Station, follow…