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Linked Media @WWWfirenze: workshop report – all slides and links now online! #lime2015 #www2015 #linkeddata #linkedmedia

Posted by on May 22, 2015 at 10:45 am

Last Monday we were pleased to hold the 3rd international workshop on Linked Media at the WWW 2015 conference. This is the second time LiME took place at a WWW conference and ca. 25 people attended to hear presentations, see demos and join the discussion on annotating media with Linked Data and using those annotations […]

All 2014 project deliverables posted online – discover the final research and technology results of #LinkedTV!

Posted by on April 29, 2015 at 11:44 am

The LinkedTV project is pleased to announce all of its public deliverables from 2014 are now online and available either as PDF download or viewing/sharing via SlideShare. These deliverables largely report the final research and technology outcomes of the project prior to their evaluations and exploitation. The scientific and professional community is invited to learn […]

LinkedTV supports #SmartTV app development @EuropeanaSpace Hackathon for @rbb_inno #BerlinWall documentary

Posted by on March 10, 2015 at 4:44 pm

On 25 and 26 February, LinkedTV partners Noterik  and RBB participated in an EuropeanaSpace workshop in Berlin. We were able to use the MultiScreen Toolkit to develop a small app to view a tour of the Berlin wall on a TV screen, with a smartphone serving as a remote control.  Viewers can click a link on their phone, that acts […]

LinkedTV demonstration of LinkedCulture: a companion application with related cultural information during Tussen Kunst & Kitsch

Posted by on December 3, 2014 at 10:42 am

With the kind permission of AVROTROS, LinkedTV has implemented a companion screen application for watching episodes of the Dutch TV program “Tussen Kunst und Kitsch” and providing viewers direct access to relevant related information about the art objects being discussed in the program. Viewing can be done on the main TV screen while exploring information […]

Paper on Video Hyperlinking using Scene Segmentation will be presented @ACMMM2014.

Posted by on August 13, 2014 at 1:22 pm

A LinkedTV paper titled “Automatic fine-grained hyperlinking of videos within a closed collection using scene segmentation” was accepted for presentation at the ACM Multimedia 2014 (MM) conference, taking place in November in Orlando, Florida. ACM MM is ACM’s premier conference on multimedia, attracting every year more than 500 top researchers of the Multimedia field. The […]

Survey of Online Tools for Semantic Media Annotation – LinkedTV leads the way

Posted by on May 25, 2014 at 9:23 pm

Presented today by LinkedTV scientific co-ordinator Lyndon Nixon at the 2nd Linked Media workshop during ESWC2014, the Survey of Semantic Media Annotation Tools considered current tools and services available to those interested in generating interoperable rich (semantic) descriptions of their media at the fragment level. LinkedTV has published the slides to SlideShare: Survey of Semantic […]

Linked Television is present at #eswc2014 Workshops, Posters, Demos, Project Networking and Sponsorship!

Posted by on May 14, 2014 at 10:16 am

Linked Television will be difficult to avoid this year at the Extended Semantic Web Conference 2014, taking place from May 25 to 29 in Crete, Greece. LinkedTV partners and work will be present in the workshops, posters and demos sessions, the LinkedTV project will participate in the Project Networking and a LinkedTV demo will be […]

W3C reports on 4th Web and TV workshop: summary for Linked Television

Posted by on May 14, 2014 at 9:41 am

The fourth Web and TV workshop was held in March 2014 in Munich, Germany, under the theme “Web and TV Convergence: Aligning Global Standards and What’s Next for Web and TV”. To that end, the roughly 130 attendees included many representatives of both key stakeholders in the TV industry as well as regional standards organizations. […]

Presentation @W3C Web&TV workshop available: issues in linking the Web with broadcast TV

Posted by on March 19, 2014 at 3:12 pm

LinkedTV participated in the 4th  W3C Web and TV workshop in Munich on March 13, 2014. The workshop is subtitled ‘Aligning Global Standards and what’s next for Web and TV’, and LinkedTV certainly believes a closer, more relevant convergence of TV and Web content is one of those things which is “what’s next for TV”. Currently, anything from 58 […]

The Hyperlinked Documentary: first LinkedTV scenario demo videos available

Posted by on November 6, 2013 at 2:12 pm

LinkedTV is pleased to announce the release of the first scenario demo video, explaining and demonstrating the Hyperlinked Documentary developed by Sound and Vision together with content from AVRO, namely video of the Dutch TV program Tussen Kunst & Kitsch (similar to the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow) The general aim of the scenario is to describe […]