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APA – Austria Press Agency

Structure & Development

Verena Krawarik

APA Innovation Management 16 July 2009

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“In the shadow of the state” from 1849 - 1946 Austrian correspondence office 1849-1859 Imperial & royal telegraph/correspondence office 1860-1918 Telegraph/correspondence office 1918-1922 Official news agency ANA 1922-1938 German news office 1938-1945 Official news agency ANA 1945-1946 1946: founding of APA as an independent, privately

• perated news agency under the cooperative
• wnership of Austrian daily newspapers

From correspondence office to APA

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Form of organization: cooperative

Members: ORF (Austrian broadcasting corporation) and 15 Austrian daily newspapers Mandate: promotional tasks to serve members. A 24 hour on-line operation is used to simultaneously provide the news to all members for compensation and in according to standard guidelines. APA also provides its services to non-members.

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Nachrichtenagenturen weltweit

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Mission Statement: Strength based on independence

APA, as the Austrian news agency, is an integrated information business company, providing news, information and IT services to both media and political institutions, as well as to corporations. APA fulfils its tasks according to the principles of reliability, speed, and balanced information, as well as studiously avoiding one-sidedness and partiality, and works independently from the state, the government, and the political parties. As Austria’s leading information service group, APA is one of only ~ 20 news agencies worldwide, which function independently from the state and the government.

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From news agency to information provider

Success through convergence

Increasing profitability and earning power through added value Digitalization: linking real-time transmissions with current information and storage 1986 Establishment of APA-MVN (Austria-wide high performance data network to interactive APA media connections) 1989 Market introduction of APA-Online (real-time information system linked to a database host) 1990 The “Standard” becomes the first newspaper electronically archived with APA-Online 2003 Expansion to AV: ORF information broadcasts in the database 2005 Start of internationalization Economic mandate

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Structure of sources

10,000 to 20,000 reports received per day 25 foreign agencies for texts 2 international business agencies (Bloomberg, AFX) 2 photo agencies (epa & dpa)

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A wave of information – text (2008)

Total reports 209.518 Daily average 572 Total own contribution 52,55 % Reports according to department (daily average) Own contribution in percent

AI II WI CI KI SI XI 129 37 169 103 33 102 16 AI II WI CI KI SI XI 25,63 97,46 50,74 56,45 48,17 71,03 57,04

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APA-MultiMedia

Multimedia content for portals, print, screens, mobile applications Editorial outsourcing

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APA-Finance

Information for decision makers Finance-Newsfeeds with numeric data, systems and applications.

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Full-Service Picture Agency News Coverage, Historical, Features, Stars, Creative, Stock Cooperation with nationalen und internationalen Providers

Picture Agency

Leading Austrian Picture Agency Leading Swiss Picture Agency APA ~ 60 %, SDA ~ 40 %

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Informationmanagement

Circulation of original multimedia information/press releases

• ver the APA network under the responsibility of the sender
• Extensive media and technical databases
• Media monitoring and profiling services
• Knowledge management

Presence/image analyses: Data for media image profile statistically and graphically prepared and interpreted according to research methods. Circulation of original multimedia tourism information/press releases over the APA network and to industry experts under the responsibility of the sender −Up-to-date news summaries / special interest dossiers −Extensive media and technical databases −Media monitoring and profiling services

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Information technology: APA-IT

Development, implementation and

• peration of total solutions

for Internet portals and Intranet applications Professional solutions for broadcast stations Multimedia database solutions for media and media-related operations Server hosting, PC and network support

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Development oft PowerSearch since 2002/03 -> „Driving Force“ behind all APA- Information Products Information Extraction, Conventional Retrieval- und Knowledge Management High Performing – short response time Real-Time Update – text documents and metadata

Semantics@APA

The beginnings

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Semantics – Why we care?

APA Online Manager, Sitesearch + und DeFacto-Wissenswelt

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Semantics – Why we care?

APA Online Manager, Sitesearch + und DeFacto-Wissenswelt

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Semantics – Why we care?

Our Goals Enhance the quality of results through semantics Disambiguation through context => U2 (Tube) ≠ U2 (Band) Making our contents compatible and linkable by accumulating metadata The end of data silos Creating a basis for the marketability through new setting of openness. A new dimension in economics

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Semantics – Why we care?

Our Projects Semantics is a new dimension in knowledge management. Therefore we are working hard on: Enhancing Entity Recognition: Company, organisation and product names will soon be integrated in our services “Urfication” of APA content Building up a showcase on our politician database „Polis“ http://www.polis-

• nline.at/cms/polis2/

And lot‘s of more projects ideas…

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Semantics – Why we care?

One more thing Visit: APA-Labs: http://www.apa.at/labs -> to learn what we do in our R&D departments APA-ZukunftWissen: http://www.zukunftwissen.apa.at > to read what the scientific community in Austria is doing in the field of semantics DeFacto Wissenswelt: https://www.defacto.at/wissenswelt -> to read and watch what newspapers and journals write about semantics Keep in Mind: MediaWatch is offering a Grant for PhD thesis Topic: Social Media, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 Application Deadline: 31. Oktober 2009 E-Mail: hannes.vorhofer@apa-mediawatch.at

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Thank you for your attention