Exploring your mediawith the Semantic Web

EMWRT VI 9th Sep 2011

Karel BraeckmanVRT-medialab

VRT has a huge audiovisual archive which is used intensively on a daily basis.

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The contents of a video can’t be automatically interpreted by a machine

? Haiti

Textual metadata is needed to help the system find the correct videos

HAITI

BAN KI-MOON

EARTHQUAKE

Haiti

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Navigating and exploring media

Politican

Actor

Journalist

earthquake (en)

Aardbeving (nl)

tremblement de terre (fr)

Images Ban Ki-Moon, Koffi Anan: Wikimedia

not if you use the

Linked Open Data Cloud

“But that’s a lot of work!”

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DBpedia

Geo-names

W3CWordNet

MusicBrainz

FlickrWrappr

Open online knowledge basescontain an abundance of knowledge

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Public knowledge bases provide information about resources using ‘triples’.

HAITI countrya

population8924000

Public knowledge bases provide information about resources using ‘triples’.

HAITI countrya

population8924000

HAITIlatitude

19° N GeoNames

sameAs

TAG

A network of linked knowledge is created.

HAITI

BAN KI-MOON

EARTHQUAKE

Extra information is deduced by introducing links between tags and LOD resources

A in itself has no meaning.TAG

A linked to does.TAG

What does know about ?

http://dbpedia.org/resource/Earthquake

Note: browser will redirect /resource/xxx to /page/xxx.

Earthquakelabel @NL “aardbeving”

label @EN “earthquake”

aConcept

EARTHQUAKE

What does know about ?

http://dbpedia.org/resource/Haiti

Note: browser will redirect /resource/xxx to /page/xxx.

Haitilabel @NL “Haïti”

3723988

latitudeN 19° GeoNames

label @EN “Haiti”

longitudeE -72° 4’

population 8924000

aPlace, Country, …

HAITI

What does know about ?

http://dbpedia.org/resource/Ban_Ki-moon

Note: browser will redirect /resource/xxx to /page/xxx.

Ban_Ki-moon

predecessor

label @EN “Ban Ki Moon”

a Person, Politician, …

depiction

Kofi Annan

abstract Ban Ki-moon (Hangul: 반기문 ; born 13 June 1944) is the eighth and current Secretary-General of the United Nations, after succeeding Kofi Annan in 2007. Before becoming Secretary-General, Ban was a …

BAN KI-MOON

MediaLoepDemo

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metadata from production tools

Subtitles (Swift)

News preparation (iNews)

Schedule (Whats’On)

News Site (Polopoly)

Newsfeeds (EBU EVN)

Drama Scripts

Archive notes (Basis)

THERE’S MORE

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Your metadata can be enhanced using Linked Open Data technology.

This renders the media collection moretransparent by enabling innovative exploration features.

http://medialoep.vrtmedialab.be

karel.braeckman@vrtmedialab.be

Questions?

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