JP2008052426A - User-driven electronic newspaper publishing system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a user-driven electronic newspaper publishing system for providing individual users with the resources necessary to publish electronic newspapers, thus enabling a plurality of general users to perform work on electronic newspapers from creation to editing of articles in a consistent manner. <P>SOLUTION: The network-based electronic newspaper publishing system includes a means for accepting the posting of articles from a plurality of users via a network; a means for searching the plurality of articles posted by a plurality of users including users other than the above users for desired articles; a means for editing the articles selected by the plurality of users including those other than the above users into the form of electronic newspapers; and a means for publicizing the electronic newspapers edited. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a user-driven electronic newspaper publishing system that enables a plurality of general users to consistently perform from creation to editing of an article.

  In recent years, with the spread of the Internet, it has become easy to obtain information with high freshness, and various electronic newspapers called “online magazines” having different tastes from paper-based newspapers and magazines have been provided.

Initially, there were many online magazines that were published by companies that interviewed and edited their own, but recently, online magazines of the type that recruits articles from general users and edits by the company have also appeared. (For example, refer to Patent Document 1). Such so-called user-participated electronic newspapers are highly useful because they can provide articles from a general user's own viewpoint that is different from the business side. In addition, a virtuous cycle can be expected when users who post articles become enthusiastic readers.
JP 2002-24467 A

  As mentioned above, user-participation-type electronic newspapers that solicit articles from general users are highly useful, but the adoption and subsequent editing of posted articles are done on the business side, and the editing policy Etc., there is a face that cannot always be said to be from the viewpoint of general users. In addition, the human cost required for the adoption and editing of articles on the business side was not negligible.

  On the other hand, some general users do not want to write and post articles themselves, but there are not a few who want to edit electronic newspapers from their own perspective, and there are quite a few who are good at such abilities. It is thought that there are a number. Some of them want to set up an electronic newspaper site themselves, but this is not realistic in terms of technical capabilities and cost. With the spread of blogs (Web Log: diary-like sites), the function of sending information has been released to individual users, but the editing function of electronic newspapers is still in an area out of reach for individual users.

  The present invention has been proposed in view of the above-mentioned conventional problems, and the object of the present invention is to provide resources necessary for publishing an electronic newspaper to an individual user, and a plurality of general users can edit and edit articles. It is an object of the present invention to provide a user-driven electronic newspaper publishing system that makes it possible to perform all of the above.

  In order to solve the above-described problems, according to the present invention, an electronic newspaper issuing system using a network as described in claim 1, wherein a plurality of users can post articles via the network. A means for receiving, a means for searching for a desired article among a plurality of articles posted by a plurality of users targeted for users other than the user, and a plurality of users targeted for users other than the user selected The gist of the present invention is a user-driven electronic newspaper issuing system comprising means for editing an article into an electronic newspaper format and means for publishing the edited electronic newspaper.

  Further, as described in claim 2, in the user-driven electronic newspaper issuing system according to claim 1, the user who has posted by the means for accepting the posting and the user who has used the means for editing the format of the electronic newspaper It is possible to provide means for mediating communication between the two.

  In addition, as described in claim 3, in the user-driven electronic newspaper issuing system according to claim 1, the user who has posted by the means for accepting the posting and the user who has used the means for editing the format of the electronic newspaper It is possible to provide a means for performing mutual evaluation.

  In addition, as described in claim 4, in the user-driven electronic newspaper issuing system according to claim 1, the posting by a user who viewed the electronic newspaper published by the means for publishing the electronic newspaper is accepted. It is possible to provide means for evaluating the user using the means for editing the user posted by means and means for editing the electronic newspaper.

  Further, as described in claim 5, in the user-driven electronic newspaper issuing system according to claim 1, the number of accesses to the electronic newspaper and the user who has posted by the means for accepting the posting are edited into the format of the electronic newspaper It is possible to provide a means for managing the contact history between the users using the means to do this.

  Further, as described in claim 6, in the user-driven electronic newspaper issuing system according to claim 1, posting of an article from the user is performed from a blog system designated by the user. Can do.

  In addition, as described in claim 7, an electronic newspaper issuance management method using a network, the step of receiving article postings from a plurality of users via the network, and users other than the user are also targeted. A step of searching for a desired article from among the plurality of articles posted by a plurality of users, a step of editing an article selected by a plurality of users targeted also by users other than the user into a format of an electronic newspaper, And a step of publishing the edited electronic newspaper. The method can be configured as a user-driven electronic newspaper issuance management method.

  In the user-driven electronic newspaper publishing system of the present invention, resources necessary for publishing electronic newspapers are provided to individual users, and the roles of reporters and editors are provided so that a plurality of general users can create articles. Can be performed consistently from editing to editing, and the electronic newspaper can be made completely from the user's perspective.

  Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described.

<System configuration>
FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a user-driven electronic newspaper issuing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

  In FIG. 1, an electronic newspaper issuing apparatus 1 that provides functions from article reception to editing / publishing is connected to a network 2 such as the Internet. The network 2 is a PC (Personal Computer) operated by a plurality of reporters. A client 3A such as a mobile phone, a client 3B such as a PC operated by a plurality of editors (editors), and a client 3C such as a PC and a mobile phone operated by a plurality of readers (readers) are connected.

  A reporter is a user who writes a manuscript based on interviews and posts it as an article, and can get a price (point) by competing for the number of posts and the number of hires. In order to improve the reporter rank by writing good articles, it is required to write things that everyone does not know and write breaking news. As reporters, people who want to send information on their own, people who have already set up a blog about news, etc. are suitable. Reporters can receive some remuneration by registering as a reporter, articles written by them can be seen by many people, can be easily posted using browsers and email software, and between editors There are advantages such as being able to plan communication.

  Editors are users who select from posted articles and publish them on the panel (electronic newspaper). Adopt and edit articles frequently (update the electronic newspaper) and receive evaluations for points (points) ). It has a high theme and is required to find articles quickly. As an editor, those who are interested in citizen media, those who do not have the ability to write articles themselves, but who want to send out some information, those who are interested in core themes (including regions), those who are interested in affiliates Etc. are suitable. Editors can send information without having to write articles themselves and have the advantage of being able to communicate with reporters.

  Readers are readers of electronic newspapers and should be able to rate and comment on articles.

  In FIG. 1, an electronic newspaper issuing apparatus 1 is operated by a reporter and a communication control unit 101 that communicates with clients 3A to 3C and a blog system (not shown) designated by the reporter via the network 2. An article posting accepting unit 102 that accepts posting of an article from a blog system or the like designated by the client 3A or a reporter, and an article searching unit 103 that provides a function of searching for a desired article from a plurality of posted articles are selected. And an article editing unit 104 that provides a function of editing an electronic newspaper based on an article.

  The electronic newspaper issuing apparatus 1 also provides a reporter-editor communication unit 105 that provides a function for performing communication between a reporter and an editor by messaging and the like, and an electronic newspaper that provides a function for publishing an edited electronic newspaper. Public section 106, evaluation section 107 that provides a function for evaluating editors as reporters, reporters as editors, and readers as articles (reporters and editors), the number of accesses to the electronic newspaper, and between reporters and editors The access number / footprint management unit 108 for managing the contact history and the like, and the DB access unit 109 for controlling access to the article DB 110 and the evaluation DB 111 are provided.

  FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of the article DB 110 and the evaluation DB 111.

  In FIG. 2, the article DB 110 includes “reporter ID” (reporter user ID), “article ID” (unique ID for identifying an article), “article URL” (address where the article exists), and “tag” (search). Keywords), “posting date” (posting date of the article), “editor ID” (user ID of the editor), “edit page URL” (address of the electronic newspaper to be posted), “title” (posting of the article) "Title", "Presence / absence of photo" (whether or not a photo is included in the article), "Date of publication" (date of publication of the electronic newspaper in which the article is included), "Contact history" (Contact history between reporters and editors) ), “Number of accesses” (number of accesses to the electronic newspaper in which the article is included), and the like.

  In addition, the evaluation DB 111 includes “evaluator ID” (user ID of the reporter or editor to be evaluated), “evaluator ID” (user ID of the reporter, editor, and reader to be evaluated), and “evaluation point” (evaluation point). Points) and “comments” (comments added during evaluation).

<Operation>
FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the overall processing flow of the system.

  In FIG. 3, an article is posted from a reporter as phase F1. Reporters can post articles from PCs and mobile phones, and also from RSS (RDF (Resource Description Framework) Site Summary, Rich Site Summary, Really Simple Syndication) from the blog (BLOG) where their articles are posted You can post articles. The posted article is received by the article posting receiving unit 102 (FIG. 1) and stored in the article DB 110.

  FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of a screen displayed on the client 3A when the reporter posts an article from the client 3A. The screen is displayed by clicking the “post article” button 301 on the reporter page. is there. On this screen, an article heading (title) can be input in the article heading area 302, an image can be designated in the image posting area 303, and the article text can be input in the article text area 304. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of a tagging screen, and tags related to articles can be set in the tag area 305. Tags are automatically extracted from the article (for example, 5), and reporters can add or delete them.

  Returning to FIG. 3, in phase F2, an article is selected by an editor from articles stored in the article DB 110.

  FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of an article search screen for searching for a desired article when an editor selects an article, and is a screen displayed by clicking the “search article” button 311 on the editor page. . In this screen, by setting a search keyword or the like in the search instruction area 312 and instructing a search, a list of articles hit in the search result display area 313 is displayed. In addition, a list of hit articles is displayed in the search result display area 313 by inputting a tag with reference to the tag displayed at the bottom of the area and instructing the search in the tag search area 314. Article search is performed by accessing the article DB 110 via the DB access unit 109 by the article search unit 103 in FIG.

  7A and 7B are diagrams showing examples of article adoption screens. Article adoption is performed on the article detail screen displayed by clicking one article from the article list of FIG. 7A and 7B are continuous pages. On this screen, the details of the article can be confirmed from the article content area 321, the selection of the article can be instructed by the “select” button 322, and the editing screen can be displayed by the “to newspaper newspaper” button 323. . The evaluation / comment area 324 allows the input of evaluation / comment. Evaluation / comments are managed by the evaluation unit 107 (FIG. 1).

  Returning to FIG. 3, in parallel with the posting phase F1 and the article selection / editing phase F2, the reporter and the editor can communicate with each other in phase F4. The communication between the reporter and the editor is performed by the reporter-editor communication unit 105 (FIG. 1). In FIG. 3, the reporter contacted the editor “I wrote this article!”, The editor ordered the article “I want this article!”, And the editor told the reporter “ An example is given in which an article such as “I hired!” Is evaluated. FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a screen example of communication between the editor and the reporter, which is displayed by clicking the “message box” button 331 from the reporter (editor) page. In FIG. 8, a message can be created and transmitted by clicking a “create message” button 332. In addition, by selecting an inbox, a transmission box, and further a lower folder from the folder display area 333, a transmitted / received message can be selected. The figure shows a state in which a received message is displayed in the inbox display area 334 by selecting the inbox.

  Returning to FIG. 3, in the phase F2, the electronic newspaper is edited following the article selection. Editing is performed by the article editing unit 104 (FIG. 1).

  FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an example of a standard template for an electronic newspaper, and a desired template can be selected from a template selection area 341. FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example of a screen for selecting a display module in the fixed template, and the characteristics of each display module constituting the electronic newspaper can be set from the module selection area 342.

  FIG. 11 is a diagram showing an example of an article editing screen, which is displayed by clicking the “layout” button 343 on the editor page. In this screen, an article can be pasted by dragging an article from the provisional article list 344 to the display module 345, and an article can be deleted by dragging the article from the display module 346 to the trash box 347. Can do.

  Returning to FIG. 3, the article selection / editing phase F <b> 2 is completed by the actual production up, and the process proceeds to the publication phase F <b> 3. The electronic newspaper is published by the electronic newspaper publication unit 106 (FIG. 1). In FIG. 3, in the phase F5 after publication, comments (impressions / requests) from the reader to the editor, comments from the editor to the reader (comments to the comment), and evaluations / comments of articles from the reader to the reporter And trackback.

  FIG. 12 is a diagram showing an example of an electronic newspaper to be released. FIG. 13A and FIG. 13B are diagrams showing screen examples of article detail pages, which are screens displayed by selecting each article in FIG. 13A and 13B are continuous pages. On this screen, in addition to the article content, the reporter information area 351 can be used to check the reporter's face photo and profile, the comment area 352 can be referred to, and the track back area 353 can be referred to as the track back. it can. The evaluation / comment area 354 allows the reader to input an evaluation / comment. Evaluation / comments are managed by the evaluation unit 107 (FIG. 1).

  On the other hand, the evaluation unit 107 in FIG. 1 automatically gives points when a predetermined condition is met, in addition to the evaluation intentionally performed by each party. FIG. 14 is a diagram illustrating an example of giving points to reporters and editors, such as “plus 5 for reporters when articles are adopted for five consecutive days in a month”, plus 1 for reporters when editors adopt articles. Conditions are defined.

  In addition, the access count / footprint management unit 108 in FIG. 1 manages the number of readers' access to the published electronic newspaper and manages the contact history between the reporter and the editor as a footstep. FIG. 15 is a diagram showing a screen example of the number of accesses, and FIG. 16 is a diagram showing a screen example just after.

<Summary>
As described above, in the user-driven electronic newspaper publishing system of the present invention, resources necessary for publishing an electronic newspaper are provided to an individual user, and a plurality of roles are provided by a reporter and an editor. It is possible for a general user to consistently perform the process from creation to editing of an article, and the electronic newspaper can be made completely from the viewpoint of the user.

  The present invention has been described above by the preferred embodiments of the present invention. While the invention has been described with reference to specific embodiments, various modifications and changes may be made to the embodiments without departing from the broad spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the claims. Obviously you can. In other words, the present invention should not be construed as being limited by the details of the specific examples and the accompanying drawings.

It is a figure which shows the structural example of the user initiative type | formula electronic newspaper issuing system concerning one Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of article DB and evaluation DB. It is a figure which shows the flow of the whole process of a system. It is a figure which shows the example of a screen of article contribution. It is a figure which shows the example of a screen of tagging. It is a figure which shows the example of a screen of an article search. FIG. 10 is a diagram (part 1) illustrating an example screen for article adoption; It is FIG. (2) which shows the example of a screen of article adoption. It is a figure which shows the example of a screen of the communication between an editor and a reporter. It is a figure which shows the example of the fixed form template of an electronic newspaper. It is a figure which shows the example of a screen of display module selection. It is a figure which shows the example of a screen of article edit. It is a figure which shows the example of an electronic newspaper. FIG. 10 is a diagram (part 1) illustrating a screen example of an article detail page. FIG. 10 is a second diagram illustrating a screen example of an article detail page. It is a figure which shows the example of the point provision to a reporter and an editor. It is a figure which shows the example of a screen of the number of accesses. It is a figure which shows the example of a screen after a step.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Electronic newspaper issuing apparatus 101 Communication control part 102 Article contribution reception part 103 Article search part 104 Article editing part 105 Reporter editor communication part 106 Electronic newspaper publication part 107 Evaluation part 108 Access number and footstep management part 109 DB access part 110 Article DB
111 Evaluation DB
2 Network 3A-3C Client

Claims (7)

An electronic newspaper publishing system using a network,
Means for accepting posts from multiple users via the network;
Means for searching for a desired article from a plurality of articles posted by a plurality of users who are also users other than the user;
Means for editing an article selected by a plurality of users targeted for users other than the user into an electronic newspaper format;
And a means for publishing the edited electronic newspaper. A user-driven electronic newspaper issuing system, comprising: The user-driven electronic newspaper issuing system according to claim 1,
A user-driven electronic newspaper publishing system comprising means for mediating contact between a user who has posted by the means for accepting posts and a user who has used means for editing the format of the electronic newspaper. The user-driven electronic newspaper issuing system according to claim 1,
A user-driven electronic newspaper publishing system comprising means for performing mutual evaluation between a user who has posted by the means for accepting posting and a user who has edited the electronic newspaper into a format. The user-driven electronic newspaper issuing system according to claim 1,
A means for evaluating a user who uses the means for accepting the posting and a means for editing the form of the electronic newspaper by a user who has read the electronic newspaper published by the means for publishing the electronic newspaper. This is a user-driven electronic newspaper publishing system. The user-driven electronic newspaper issuing system according to claim 1,
A user-driven electronic system comprising means for managing a communication history between a user who has posted the electronic newspaper by the means for accepting the posting and a means for editing the electronic newspaper into a format for the electronic newspaper Newspaper issuing system. The user-driven electronic newspaper issuing system according to claim 1,
Posting an article from the user is performed from a blog system specified by the user. An electronic newspaper issuance management method using a network,
Receiving posts from multiple users via the network;
Searching for a desired article from a plurality of articles posted by a plurality of users who are also users other than the user;
Editing an article selected by a plurality of users targeted for users other than the user into an electronic newspaper format;
And a step of publishing the edited electronic newspaper. A user-driven electronic newspaper issuance management method comprising:

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