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Glocal News: An Attempt to Visualize the Discovery of Localized Top Local News, Globally

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Advances in Conceptual Modeling (ER 2013)

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Glocal News is a web app, a mashup of Google News and Google Maps, which attempts to visualize top local news, globally, in 70 languages. The news headlines, which are displayed on an infowindow, are provided by the public Google News RSS. The algorithm, built in JavaScript, uses geocoding in order to extract the toponym from a given location and the local storage technique in order to store the news temporary on the user’s browser.

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  1. Department of Informatics, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece

    Dimitris Spathis, Theofilos Mouratidis & Spyros Sioutas

  2. Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics, University of Patras, Patras, Greece

    Athanasios Tsakalidis

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  1. Faculty of Business Administration, Memorial University of Newfoundland, A1B 3X5, St. John’s, NL, Canada

    Jeffrey Parsons

  2. Faculty of Education, Division of Information and Technology Studies, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

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Spathis, D., Mouratidis, T., Sioutas, S., Tsakalidis, A. (2014). Glocal News: An Attempt to Visualize the Discovery of Localized Top Local News, Globally. In: Parsons, J., Chiu, D. (eds) Advances in Conceptual Modeling. ER 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8697. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14139-8_1

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