See and hear Linked Television at next month’s EBU BroadThinking 2015 event! With the recent launch of HbbTV 2.0, the SmartTV standard for broadcasters to deliver Internet based services alongside their broadcast programming, this is the perfect moment for the LinkedTV project to show broadcasters its innovative technology solution to analyse and annotate TV programs. […]
At the Ibero American Biennial of Design (BID) in Madrid, LinkedTV researchers Lilia Perez and Michiel Hildebrand from the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam, have been awarded a honorary mention in the category Digital Design for the concept and interaction design of Linked TV News. Linked TV News is a second screen companion […]
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. […]
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 […]
LinkedTV is pleased to announce its submission “Developing a second screen application for TV broadcasts enriched via Linked Open Data” has been accepted as a poster presentation at the European Data Forum 2014, in Athens, Greece, on the 19th March 2014, 6-8pm. Increasingly, European citizens consume television content on, or with, devices connected to the Internet […]
ICT 2013 this week in Vilnius, Lithuania not only sees the launch of information about the new Horizon2020 programme, and offers a meet-up of over 5 000 researchers from across Europe, it is also an exhibition of the latest innovation coming out of European funded R&D. So not surprising that LinkedTV is there, in the […]
The FIAT/IFTA Global Conference is the annual key event for experts from the global television archives to learn about the latest developments and trends in their area. On Sunday, October 27, Johan Oomen of partner Sound and Vision will talk in the “Access & Use” track speaking on Archive content and SmartTVs. As more and more […]
On 30 May, a joint HBB-NEXT – LinkedTV meeting took place at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, which was was attended by 15 professionals from the Dutch media industry. The reason for the shared meeting is that both projects work on similar topics and issues (Connected TV, multiple device access, contextualisation, etc) TNO, […]
How will television look in 2017? This question is relevant to the Consultation Meeting of the European Commission’s research unit on Networked Media, which is planning which topics should be relevant in a call for projects to be published next year. Such projects will likely end around 2017 – five years from now. LinkedTV is […]