Or: Look at the information.
the invention in a \u0026lt; www.qwiki.com > (in alpha stage and still accessible by invitation only), was rewarded by CrunchBase 2010 that assesses the most innovative ideas of the Web and consists of a multimedia encyclopedia in which the consultation takes advantage of the automatic processing of textual sources and visual presentations, video, graphics and a narrator who tells the reader not the facts of a character, a historical fact, a city, a type of technology, a musical genre. The transformation process is fully automated, not requiring human intervention in the creation of movies. The idea came from a former member of Facebook, Eduardo Saverin and founder of YouTube, Jawed Karim.
different but related perspectives is the Italian initiative Ovo \u0026lt; www.ovo.com > created in two steps from Andrea Pezzi (which it shares with Vincenzo Monti birth to Alford), and that tells Out Program, Bompiani, 2008. Unlike Qwik - and apart from the different amount of funding and the amount of information available - Ovo is not built automatically comes with a rich graphical user interface clickable and is organized into categories: Ovobio (men and women who made history), Ovopedia (encyclopedic knowledge) and Ovopolis (cultural structures created man).
The real news, however, lies elsewhere, and is in denial of any contribution user generated or is a work of crowd sourcing, to the benefit of items signed, published and eventually financed by a single author, who thus becomes " owner "of an encyclopedia entry of up to cultural patronage of companies that use this form Publishing to acquire advertising space.
the invention in a \u0026lt; www.qwiki.com > (in alpha stage and still accessible by invitation only), was rewarded by CrunchBase 2010 that assesses the most innovative ideas of the Web and consists of a multimedia encyclopedia in which the consultation takes advantage of the automatic processing of textual sources and visual presentations, video, graphics and a narrator who tells the reader not the facts of a character, a historical fact, a city, a type of technology, a musical genre. The transformation process is fully automated, not requiring human intervention in the creation of movies. The idea came from a former member of Facebook, Eduardo Saverin and founder of YouTube, Jawed Karim.
different but related perspectives is the Italian initiative Ovo \u0026lt; www.ovo.com > created in two steps from Andrea Pezzi (which it shares with Vincenzo Monti birth to Alford), and that tells Out Program, Bompiani, 2008. Unlike Qwik - and apart from the different amount of funding and the amount of information available - Ovo is not built automatically comes with a rich graphical user interface clickable and is organized into categories: Ovobio (men and women who made history), Ovopedia (encyclopedic knowledge) and Ovopolis (cultural structures created man).
The real news, however, lies elsewhere, and is in denial of any contribution user generated or is a work of crowd sourcing, to the benefit of items signed, published and eventually financed by a single author, who thus becomes " owner "of an encyclopedia entry of up to cultural patronage of companies that use this form Publishing to acquire advertising space.
[pre-print for "The Librarian", III series, ISSN 11250992, 1-2/2011]
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