Metadata at The New York Times : organizing and leveraging news content from 1851 to today

Abstract

The New York Times has been a leader in metadata since the birth of The New York Times Index in 1913. Today, a team of taxonomists uses natural-language processing and a human-in-the-loop model to organize, analyze, and push content to readers. Looking to the future, the taxonomy team hopes to free up resources with the help of new technologies so that the metadata practices already in place can be expanded to other areas beyond core news content.