Rob, This is an interesting - and very subtle - enhancedment to the BBC news pages. Took me a while to spot what was being added, so well was it done.
I was wondering if you could modify it so that it could also add links to Wikipedia articles by adding hypertext links within the text. For example, in the first one you post there is some text... *"Scientists have discovered differences in the sensory areas of the brains of people who develop migraines.* They found a part of the cortex is thicker than in people who are free from the debilitating headaches. What is not clear is whether the difference causes, or is the result of migraine attacks. The Neurology study, by Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, suggests the changes may make patients hyper-sensitive to pain in general. " IMHO, it would be enhanced by adding in Wikipedia links, like this: *"Scientists <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientists> have discovered differences in the sensory areas of the brains of people who develop migraines <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migraines>.* They found a part of the cortex<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebral_cortex>is thicker than in people who are free from the debilitating headaches <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headaches>. What is not clear is whether the difference causes, or is the result of migraine attacks. The Neurology <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurology> study, by Massachusetts <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts> General Hospital in Boston <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston>, suggests the changes may make patients hyper-sensitive<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-sensitivity>to pain in general. " On 21/11/2007, robl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > Just thought I'd accompany the latest post to the backstage blog > (http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/archives/2007/11/from_last_years_1.html) > with some examples of muddyboots in action. For those of you who aren't > aware of the project it's probably best to look at > http://muddyboots.rattleresearch.com/cgi-bin/mb.cgi?action=more. > Essentially we're attempting to use Wikipedia and other commons authored > data sources to augment the meta-data around BBC news stories, this > ultimately took the form of automated contextually relevant link > recommendations based off data within Wikipedia and del.icio.us > (although we have some other ideas about how this data could be used ...) > > It's still a prototype so it's not production ready by any means, there > are still stories where we are unable to recommend links and there are > others where ambiguity becomes a problem and identifying what context a > story has can be difficult (although we have some ideas around using the > disambiguation data within Wikipedia to improve this). > > Here are a few links to stories where I thought muddyboots added some > interest and hopefully a little of that Wikipedia 'browse experience' : > > http://muddyboots.rattleresearch.com/cgi-bin/mb.cgi?action=page&id=646 > http://muddyboots.rattleresearch.com/cgi-bin/mb.cgi?action=page&id=630 > http://muddyboots.rattleresearch.com/cgi-bin/mb.cgi?action=page&id=622 > http://muddyboots.rattleresearch.com/cgi-bin/mb.cgi?action=page&id=643 > > If you'd like to see how those recommendations were arrived at then each > story has a 'View' action which can be used to get a breakdown of each > stage of the muddyboots process, for example : > > http://muddyboots.rattleresearch.com/cgi-bin/mb.cgi?action=view&id=622 > > It's worth noting we only keep the last 50 story submissions in the > system, so these links will eventually 'age' out. > > (Disclaimer : I worked on the project) > > Thanks, > > Rob > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial > list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > -- Please email me back if you need any more help. Brian Butterworth http://www.ukfree.tv
