Research & development for the social web
Muddy
The gestation of some projects is longer than others. The one we’re ‘launching’ today is elephant-esque in it’s development. Muddy is here.
Muddy is a data mining tool that, for a given web page or document, will tell you what the notable things are from which you can then grab extra information. It’s like an encyclopedia that chews through content and joins up the entries from across different documents.
The BBC are using it, in fact the BBC have been significant in its development as they originally commissioned it and have supported it ever since. But there are a heap more potential users and uses for the service; anyone with a lot of content will hopefully find interesting things they could do with it.
Channelography is one project that spun out of Muddy, allowing the BBC to see what was actually ‘in’ its output. Next week we’ll be showcasing another use of Muddy, this time looking at news content.
There is more information over on the Muddy site and the Muddy blog, detailing the background to the service, how to start using it and other stuff. It’s not for everyone. There are no flashing lights and no fancy gimmicky things. Oh no, Ladies and Gentlemen, this is ‘MIDDLEWARE‘ (dull link warning) and proud of it.
Anyway, do have a poke around and let us have your thoughts.
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Channelography identifies channels true personality – Backstage.bbc.co.uk
December 12, 2009[...] Channelography creates statistics about BBC Programmes by reading and analysing the captions within the programmes themselves. This means you get much richer data that you would normally get from the programme descriptions themselves. Its a collaborative backstage project from the guys at Rattle in Sheffield using there already known Muddy platform. [...]