A companion screen application for TV broadcasts annotated with Linked Open Data

Increasingly, European citizens consume television content together with devices connected to the Internet where they can look up related information. In parallel, growing amounts of Linked Open Data are being published on the Web, including rich metadata about its cultural heritage. Linked Data and semantic technologies could enable broadcasters to achieve added value for their content at low cost through the re-use of existing and extracted metadata. We present ongoing work in the LinkedTV project, whose goal is to achieve seamless interlinking between TV and Web content on the basis of semantic annotations: two scenarios validated by user trials - Linked News and the Hyperlinked Documentary - and a companion screen application which provides related information for those programs during viewing

Interaction Design and User Needs for TV Broadcasts Enriched with Linked Open Data

Increasingly, people are consuming television content on devices connected to the Internet that allow them to look up related information. In parallel, Europe is publishing growing amounts of Linked Open Data, including rich metadata about its cultural heritage. The goal of the LinkedTV project is to seamlessly interlink TV and Web content to enrich the user’s experience of both. Linked Data and semantic technologies enable broadcasters to achieve added value for their content at low cost through the re-use of existing metadata. We present two user studies related to different user scenarios: Interactive News and Hyperlinked Documentary). These studies reveal the different user requirements and infor

Antiques Interactive

We demonstrate the potential of automatically linking content from television broadcasts in the context of enriching the experience of users watching the broadcast. The demo focusses on (1) providing smooth user interface that allows users to look up web content and other audiovisual material that is directly related to the television content and (2) providing means for social interaction

Antiques Interactive

We demonstrate the potential of automatically linking content from television broadcasts in the context of enriching the experience of users watching the broadcast. The demo focusses on (1) providing smooth user interface that allows users to look up web content and other audiovisual material that is directly related to the television content and (2) providing means for social interaction

Open Culture Data position paper

Open Culture Data started as a grassroots movement at the end of 2011, with the aim to open up data in the cultural sector and stimulate (creative) reuse. In this context, we organised a hackathon, which resulted in the creation of 13 Open Culture Data apps. After this successful first half year, a solid network of cultural heritage professionals, copyright and open data experts and developers was formed. In April 2012, an Open Culture Data masterclass started in which 17 institutions get practical, technical and legal advice on how to open their data for re-use. Furthermore, we organised an app competition and three hackathons, in which developers were stimulated to re-use Open Cultural Datasets in new and innovative ways. These activities resulted in 27 more apps and 34 open datasets. In this paper we share lessons-learned, that will inform heritage institutions with real-life quantitative and qualitative experiences, best practices and guidelines of their peers with opening up data and the ways in which this data is reused. Since the open culture data field is still relatively young, this is highly relevant information needed to stimulate other to join the open data movement. To this end, we are already taking steps to cross the borders and let Europe know about the initiative, on both a practical and a policy level

Exploiting Program Guides for Contextualisation

Archives of cultural heritage organisations typically consist of collections in various formats (e.g. photos, video, texts) that are inherently related. Often, such disconnected collections represent value in itself but effectuating links between 'core' and 'context' collection items in various levels of granularity could result in a 'one-plus-one-makes-three' scenario both from a contextualisation perspective (public presentations, research) and access perspective. A key issue is the identification of contextual objects that can be associated with objects in the core collections, or the other way around. Traditionally, such associations have been created manually. For most organizations however, this approach does not scale. In this paper, we describe a case in which a semi-automatic approach was employed to create contextual links between television broadcast schedules in program guides (context collection) and the programs in the archive (core collection) of a large audiovisual heritage organisation

Open is as open does. How to use open content in a personalized interactive museum exhibit

Open is as open does. Open content has been a hot topic in heritage for several years. The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision has long been a front runner when it comes to supporting open standards and free re-use of our collections. Surprisingly enough, we never tried it the other way around: using open content to create an exhibit. So when we started to develop an exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of 3FM - one of Holland’s main public pop radio channels - we asked ourselves: would we be able to create a personalized, interactive videomapping exhibit using mainly open content? During a How-To-Session Karen Drost and Maarten Brinkerink will dive into how we managed this, and share what we learned