Mysema

The Finnish Literature Society needed an XML document annotation tool for their researchers. Literature researchers use XML documents in TEI-format that contain the subjects of their research in digital format. No suitable tool was available on the market, so Edith was born. Working on these texts is a collaborative effort where researchers enrich... the text with different kinds of information. Like explaining what "verranvastaiset" means in Nummisuutarit, a play by Aleksis Kivi, this play was the first publication for which Edith was used. Mysema worked with the Finnish Literature Society from the very start and built the Edith annotation tool in short iterations. Mysema helped Comptel migrate their existing product user interfaces from the Flash-based framework to a more modern architecture using HTML and JavaScript. We participated in the initial design of the new architecture and picked frameworks such as Backbone.js, jQuery and RequireJS to be used as the foundation for the new user interfaces. We also participated in the product development of Social Links, which was purchased via the acqusition of Xtract. We wrote a functional demo of the product which was presented at the Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona. After the acquisition of Xtract we participated in the product development of Social Links. Forum Virium develops new digital services in cooperation with companies. Mysema worked with Forum Virium to create Linked Events. It tries to solve a problem where event providers have event data in many different formats and no common way to publish them exist. The idea is to gather and normalize the event data and publish it as open data to all interested parties. Currently the main source for event and place data is the Helsinki City Tourist & Convention Bureau. The REST API provides data in JSON and JSON-LD , the latter is especially good for users that need the additional semantics. As a part of the Helsinki Region Infoshare effort Mysema created the Semantic.hri.fi application. It provided a Linked ...Read More