Geocoding news at the source

dpa-infocom GmbH started geocoding news stories in 2007 to attach location context as metadata. News stories have several types of locations associated with them, including the scope, locus, and places mentioned within the story. These locations are represented using hierarchical geographic partitions and geonames. The process of geocoding news is currently manual but support systems have been integrated into editorial systems. Future work includes gathering feedback, promoting the approach within media organizations, representing locations in standards like GeoRSS, and connecting it to fields like computational geometry.