Collaborative recommendations with content-based filters for cultural activities via a scalable event distribution platform

Nowadays, most people have limited leisure time and the offer of (cultural) activities to spend this time is enormous. Consequently, picking the most appropriate events becomes increasingly difficult for end-users. This complexity of choice reinforces the necessity of filtering systems that assist users in finding and selecting relevant events. Whereas traditional filtering tools enable e.g. the use of keyword-based or filtered searches, innovative recommender systems draw on user ratings, preferences, and metadata describing the events. Existing collaborative recommendation techniques, developed for suggesting web-shop products or audio-visual content, have difficulties with sparse rating data and can not cope at all with event-specific restrictions like availability, time, and location. Moreover, aggregating, enriching, and distributing these events are additional requisites for an optimal communication channel. In this paper, we propose a highly-scalable event recommendation platform which considers event-specific characteristics. Personal suggestions are generated by an advanced collaborative filtering algorithm, which is more robust on sparse data by extending user profiles with presumable future consumptions. The events, which are described using an RDF/OWL representation of the EventsML-G2 standard, are categorized and enriched via smart indexing and open linked data sets. This metadata model enables additional content-based filters, which consider event-specific characteristics, on the recommendation list. The integration of these different functionalities is realized by a scalable and extendable bus architecture. Finally, focus group conversations were organized with external experts, cultural mediators, and potential end-users to evaluate the event distribution platform and investigate the possible added value of recommendations for cultural participation

Continuous Improvement Through Knowledge-Guided Analysis in Experience Feedback

Continuous improvement in industrial processes is increasingly a key element of competitiveness for industrial systems. The management of experience feedback in this framework is designed to build, analyze and facilitate the knowledge sharing among problem solving practitioners of an organization in order to improve processes and products achievement. During Problem Solving Processes, the intellectual investment of experts is often considerable and the opportunities for expert knowledge exploitation are numerous: decision making, problem solving under uncertainty, and expert configuration. In this paper, our contribution relates to the structuring of a cognitive experience feedback framework, which allows a flexible exploitation of expert knowledge during Problem Solving Processes and a reuse such collected experience. To that purpose, the proposed approach uses the general principles of root cause analysis for identifying the root causes of problems or events, the conceptual graphs formalism for the semantic conceptualization of the domain vocabulary and the Transferable Belief Model for the fusion of information from different sources. The underlying formal reasoning mechanisms (logic-based semantics) in conceptual graphs enable intelligent information retrieval for the effective exploitation of lessons learned from past projects. An example will illustrate the application of the proposed approach of experience feedback processes formalization in the transport industry sector

CHORUS Deliverable 3.3: Vision Document - Intermediate version

The goal of the CHORUS vision document is to create a high level vision on audio-visual search engines in order to give guidance to the future R&D work in this area (in line with the mandate of CHORUS as a Coordination Action). This current intermediate draft of the CHORUS vision document (D3.3) is based on the previous CHORUS vision documents D3.1 to D3.2 and on the results of the six CHORUS Think-Tank meetings held in March, September and November 2007 as well as in April, July and October 2008, and on the feedback from other CHORUS events. The outcome of the six Think-Thank meetings will not just be to the benefit of the participants which are stakeholders and experts from academia and industry – CHORUS, as a coordination action of the EC, will feed back the findings (see Summary) to the projects under its purview and, via its website, to the whole community working in the domain of AV content search. A few subjections of this deliverable are to be completed after the eights (and presumably last) Think-Tank meeting in spring 2009

Otvaranje zvukovnih arhiva Europe: projekt Europeana Sounds

Europeana Sounds is a project co-funded by the European Commission within the ICT Policy Support Programme as part of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme. The project aimed to enhance the total amount of the sound contents available through Europeana. Currently, more than 600,000 audio items and more than 300,000 audio-related contents have been aggregated thanks to the activities carried out by Europeana Sounds. The project has achieved other important objectives such as the enrichment of the metadata related to the digital objects, the realization of a set of Policy Recommendations, the launch of the first thematic channel of Europeana entirely devoted to the music named Europeana Music and a Radio that makes 200,000 music tracks available online. Europeana Sounds will continue to pursuit its objectives through the Task force established within the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA).Slogan projekta Europeana Sounds kaže »Zvukovno nasljeđe Europe pod vašim prstima « i to je, u suštini, glavni cilj Projekta. Ovaj članak daje pregled Europeana Sounds projekta koji je započet u veljači 2014, a završen u siječnju 2017. godine. Projekt čini dostupnim sadržaje sakupljene putem Europeane koja nudi pristup do više od 53,870.000 izvora, uključujući knjige, videosnimke, slike, zvukove, umjetnička djela i još mnogo više iz europskog kulturnog nasljeđa. U prvome dijelu članka objašnjavaju se ciljevi Europeana Sounds, a to su: povećati ukupnu količinu zvučnih izvora koji su dostupni putem portala Europeana, obogatiti metapodatke vezane uz te izvore, kreirati specifičan kanal posvećen zvukovima i ostalim srodnim sadržajima, istražiti u svrhu rješavanja ograničenja domene vezane uz zvukovno nasljeđe, potaknuti kreativno korištenje navedenih resursa te kreirati mrežu interesenata i stručnjaka na polju zvuka. Unutar projekta formirano je nekoliko grupa koje su provele radnje vezane uz konačne ciljeve projekta: od sakupljanja sadržaja do tehničke infrastrukture koja omogućava objavljivanje na Europeani, od obogaćivanja metapodataka vezanih za izvore i crowdsourcinga do pitanja autorskih prava, od realizacije tematskog kanala do složenih aktivnosti vođenja projekta. Za vrijeme projekta svi postignuti ciljevi promovirani su kroz širok spektar aktivnosti, uključujući dva međunarodna skupa, sudjelovanjem na događanjima, dinamičnim blogom s više objava koje su vezane za zvukovno nasljeđe te stranicama na društvenim mrežama. Zaključno, trud uložen u pokretanje tematskoga kanala posvećenoga glazbi. Projekt, koji je u rasponu od tri godine ostvario razne ciljeve, nastavit će svoje aktivnosti zahvaljujući radnoj skupini formiranoj unutar International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA)

NFDI4Culture - Consortium for research data on material and immaterial cultural heritage

Digital data on tangible and intangible cultural assets is an essential part of daily life, communication and experience. It has a lasting influence on the perception of cultural identity as well as on the interactions between research, the cultural economy and society. Throughout the last three decades, many cultural heritage institutions have contributed a wealth of digital representations of cultural assets (2D digital reproductions of paintings, sheet music, 3D digital models of sculptures, monuments, rooms, buildings), audio-visual data (music, film, stage performances), and procedural research data such as encoding and annotation formats. The long-term preservation and FAIR availability of research data from the cultural heritage domain is fundamentally important, not only for future academic success in the humanities but also for the cultural identity of individuals and society as a whole. Up to now, no coordinated effort for professional research data management on a national level exists in Germany. NFDI4Culture aims to fill this gap and create a usercentered, research-driven infrastructure that will cover a broad range of research domains from musicology, art history and architecture to performance, theatre, film, and media studies. The research landscape addressed by the consortium is characterized by strong institutional differentiation. Research units in the consortium's community of interest comprise university institutes, art colleges, academies, galleries, libraries, archives and museums. This diverse landscape is also characterized by an abundance of research objects, methodologies and a great potential for data-driven research. In a unique effort carried out by the applicant and co-applicants of this proposal and ten academic societies, this community is interconnected for the first time through a federated approach that is ideally suited to the needs of the participating researchers. To promote collaboration within the NFDI, to share knowledge and technology and to provide extensive support for its users have been the guiding principles of the consortium from the beginning and will be at the heart of all workflows and decision-making processes. Thanks to these principles, NFDI4Culture has gathered strong support ranging from individual researchers to highlevel cultural heritage organizations such as the UNESCO, the International Council of Museums, the Open Knowledge Foundation and Wikimedia. On this basis, NFDI4Culture will take innovative measures that promote a cultural change towards a more reflective and sustainable handling of research data and at the same time boost qualification and professionalization in data-driven research in the domain of cultural heritage. This will create a long-lasting impact on science, cultural economy and society as a whole

Semantic Information on Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) through Ontologies

This work shows the development of ontology in the domain of Electronic Medical Records (EMRs). The ontology supports vocabulary and semantic information to patients. The ontology implemented begins with the, the exploration of semantic web applications, ontology design ,analysis and the use of ontological engineering in order information indexing and retrieval from and to electronic medical records. This ontology is one of other services to incorporate on current telemedicine systems.Sociedad Argentina de Informática e Investigación Operativ