Since 2015, Bloom Labs has focused on a wide range of experiments with geotagged news stories where we have encountered questions about automation regularly. These have been in conversations with newsrooms who hesitate to assign their editorial team with another manual task and prospective business partners looking for consistently available geotagged stories.
We are dedicated to supporting the work being done today to improve automated geotagging to make the technology and its capabilities more accessible to newsrooms. Over the years, we've kept in touch with professors who have spent decades trying to achieve better accuracy and scale for the approach, and continuously give support to software engineers pushing ahead on particular language processing challenges. Whether automation can alleviate geotagging adoption challenges and how it's implemented is still uncertain. This page serves as a repository of our ongoing, collaborative research for these uncertainties. We plan to make our findings publicly accessible in the near future so you can follow along and potentially find ways you'd like to work with us.
The goals of this ongoing research focus on gaining insight about the use, habits, limitations, and capabilities of geotagging local news stories, both manually and automatically, including: