OpenNews Learning wants to provide lessons to developers in and out of newsrooms by Justin Ellis.
From the post:
If you ever wanted an “Ask This Old House”-style guide set in the universe of newsroom developers and designers, today you’re in luck: OpenNews Learning is a new kind of online education project that looks at the nuts and bolts of interactive projects through the eyes of the people who built them. It’s the newest arm of Knight-Mozilla OpenNews, the two-foundation collaboration that aims to strengthen the bonds between the worlds of journalism and software development.
One of the central ideas behind OpenNews is sharing knowledge, through building community and by putting outside developers directly into newsrooms. OpenNews Learning is an extension of that, designed to help developers (aspiring and otherwise) learn how specific projects were built. Consider it another way to “show your work.”
Following these projects should provide ample opportunities to suggest where topic maps could have been used.
I suspect most researchers would prefer data recycling over data mining.