After a search in Koko, thumbnails of wire photos and headings from ordinary wires are combined and displayed top-down with the latest news at the top. When selecting a particular entry, photos can be downloaded in full size JPEG quality, wires are displayed in fulltext as well as formatted for copy-paste into f. ex. Future work Koko is designed on the hypertext idea that news gathering is a special form of information retrieval, where the jounalist uses relational search patterns to build an opinion of relevant sources. Our experience shows us that Koko has fulfilled this need for providing up to date information. It is very important that the journalist recognizes his or hers usual working habits in Koko.
Journalists base their work on reliable sources.
The system described above provides this recognition through its user interface in a fast and reliable way. The idea is to expand the Koko concept with natural language interface, translation of keywords and concepts from one news feed to another. One idea is to develop DTDs that define tagsets for news wires and photos. This work is ongoing at different news providers. An even more ambitious dimension is to integrate news feeds containing sound and video into Koko.