Television Linked To The Web

www.linkedtv.eu

Lyndon Nixon (MODUL University Vienna)

Lotte Belice Baltussen (Sound and Vision, Hilversum)

Engaging TV viewers with

AudioVisual heritage on second screens

Rome | EUscreenXL conference | 29 October 2014

What is Linked Television?

40% of TV viewers are using a companion device alongside the TV program.*

* J. Abreu, P. Almeida, B. Teles, and M. Reis. Viewer behaviors and practices in the (new) television environment. In Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Interactive TV and Video, EuroITV '13.

http://www.linkedtv.eu

Ever saw something on TV and wanted to know more about it, but didn‘t even know how to search for it?

LINKEDCULTURE DEMO VIDEO

LinkedCulture

Sound and Vision icw AVROTROS

dbpedia.org/resource/Jan_Sluyters

LinkedTV: Tussen Kunst & Kitsch

linkedtv.eu

Paintings by Jan Sluijters

“...painting of Jan Sluijters....”

Hypervideo analysis

Presentation engine - toolkit

Named Entity Recognition

Enriching NEs with web content

Generation of media fragments

LinkedCulture V1 – user trials

Set-up of the trials: 5 individual testsx 4:• 23, MA student - Film and Television studies• 65, retired primary school teacher • 26, MA student - New Media• 43, Journalist & writer

x 1:• 51, Consultant healthcare and culture sector

Tablet ownership | TKK viewership

1 4

1

4

I own a tablet

I watch TKK:(almost) always

I watch TKK:sometimes

I watch TKK:(almost) never

1 1

1

2

• Simplify second screen for during viewing• Show more when using second screen as catch-up device

Results: Main vs 2nd screen

TYPES OF CONCEPTS

• Users like ‘Who’ and ‘What’, but not ‘Where’

Results: Evaluation of concepts

User Trial Results (WP3)

Jacquemart chapter:

• more information about the type of object

• information about the specific watch

• the maker

• the Jacquemart technique

• mythological figures (Hebe and Charitas)

• World Fair (where the watch was bought)

• the expert, Fred Kats (1x)

• opinions on the art object or art in general

Results: Concept evaluation

• Focus on ‘WHO’ and ‘WHAT’ re: art object

• More visual/video enrichments

• Wikipedia links only are too easy

• Information overload prevention

• Use personalisation

• Nice to know how to spell terms

• Users generally don’t want to pay

• ....and great interest in curated information

General lessons learned

Art objects in TKK episodes

Art object: semantic model

http://data.linkedtv.eu/object/avro/8a8187f2-3fc8-cb54-0140-7dccd76f0001/2138

A silver tea jar semantic links

RDF Is-a Container http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300045611

CRM Consists-of Silver http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300010975

VRA locationCreationSite Friesland http://www.geonames.org/2755812

DCT temporal Start: 1690, End: 1742

Mapping to Europeana API

http://data.linkedtv.eu/object/avro/8a8187f2-3fc8-cb54-0140-7dccd76f0001/2138

A silver tea jar semantic links

RDF Is-a Container http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300045611

CRM Consists-of Silver http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300010975

VRA locationCreationSite Friesland http://www.geonames.org/2755812

DCT temporal Start: 1690, End: 1742 YEAR:[1690+TO+1742]

what:(container+OR+houder+OR+bak+OR+tank+OR+blik) proxy_dc_format:zilver

where:Friesland

Enrichment results

Frisian silver from 1690 to 1742

What is in it for you?

Discoverability | Serendipity | Enrichment

Thank you!

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