Oxynade has developed a unique patent-pending
platform that combines the benefits of automated internet searches
with an international editorial staff to provide the most complete,
qualitative and up-to-date list of cultural events for a pre-defined
geographical area.
Web harvesting source
selection Based on specific customer needs,
Oxynade can define custom selections of web sources (websites,
RSS feeds, online databases...) that will be used to harvest
targeted event calendar information.
Crawling
& parsing engine Thousands of web pages will
be processed to retrieve up-to-date information. Each webpage
is automatically parsed into individual pieces of
information.
Extraction engine The
individual pieces of information are interpreted and
transformed into structured data. The multi-lingual extraction
engine recognizes a wide selection of fields such as for
example dates, prices and locations. An advanced scoring
algorithm is used for optimal results and to provide instant
feedback on data quality. Finally automated categorization is
performed.
De-duplication Using
advanced heuristics the data is de-duplicated. Even data which is
similar but not identical can be correlated in order to
identify double data entries. This is performed among other
techniques by calculating the difference percentage between
data records.
Data store The
normalized data is stored in a relational database and in a
full text-search optimized data repository, which allows
Oxynade to store and search millions of
records.
Partner backoffice The
Oxynade partner backoffice is a comprehensive online interface
for manual data sanity checks. The backoffice can be used to
handle thousands of daily new records in an efficient
manner.
Publishing & migration
tools Oxynade provides various tools to publish
and unleash the collected data using XML, ready to use web
controls (widgets), file exchange and even automated form submission.
This means that existing human interfaces can be used to input
data into an existing database in a fully automated
manner.
Mobile applications
Oxynade's event calendar information is perfectly suited for mobile location based services (LBS).
The iPhone Happenr application is a mobile showcase application that provides "what's going on here and now" information across Europe.
User generated content
The event calendar information can be further enriched with user generated content (UGC). The UGC screens can be tailored and integrated to collect and manage event information entered by the community.
