R&D Results
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Verify this week (27/2014)
September 24, 2014 | Linda Rath-Wiggins
Every week, we provide interesting links from around the web that discuss issues regarding the verification processes of content from social media. Here is our list for this week.
Image Verification Corpus Released
September 11, 2014 | Jochen Spangenberg
As we are approaching the end of project year one, first R&D results are becoming available in REVEAL. Here, Symeon Papadopoulos of the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH-ITI) presents an image verification data corpus that is available for free to the research community.
From Twitter-based Crisis Mapping to Large-scale Real-Time Situation Assessment with Trust and Credibility Analysis
July 24, 2014 | Jochen Spangenberg
First R&D results are becoming available in REVEAL. In this contribution, Stuart Middleton of the University of Southampton’s IT Innovation Centre shares his insights into work done by IT Innovation to date, regarding crisis mapping and real-time situation assessment with trust and credibility analysis. The work partly builds on what has been done in previous research projects.
European Court Rules against Google: “Right to be Forgotten”
June 16, 2014 | Jochen Spangenberg
Recently, the Court of Justice of the European Union passed a landmark ruling concerning the “right to be forgotten” in the digital sphere. Issues of personal data handling also play a role in REVEAL. Here, REVEAL partners from the Interdisciplinary Centre for Law and ICT (ICRI) of the University of Leuven, Jef Ausloos and Aleksandra Kuczerawy, present an assessment of the ruling.
Alfred Hermida’s Tweets And Truth: Paper Review
January 28, 2014 | Jochen Spangenberg
Check out our latest paper review: Tweets and Truth. Journalism as a discipline of collaborative verification by Alfred Hermida.