Lodlam Open Data Prize for Polimedia | CWI Amsterdam | Research in mathematics and computer science

"Researchers from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), VU University (VU), Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) , Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) and the Institute for Sound and Vison have been awarded the Lodlam Open Data Prize for the Polimedia research project. The prize is an award for Linked Open Data in the field of Library Archives and Museums and was handed out at the LODLAM Summit in Sydney, Australia. Polimedia aims to stimulate and facilitate large scale cross media analysis of political events and is beneficial for researchers in communication science, politics, history and journalism. The main result of the research project is Polimedia.nl, a public web portal that links political debates to news articles that cover them over a timespan of fifty years, until 1995. In the project, the debate archives of the Dutch Parliament, and archives of newspapers and radio bulletins from the National Library of the Netherlands, have been connected to each other. The web service enables analysis of media coverage of politicians and political events and shows how debates and arguments have developed over time ..."