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NoTube
Future Internet Semantic Web and Knowledge Services
Networks and Ontologies for the Transformation and Unification of Broadcasting and the intErnet
The ultimate goal of this project is to develop flexible/adaptive end-to-end architecture, based on semantic technologies, for personalised creation, distribution and consumption of TV content. The project will take a user-centric approach to investigate fundamental aspects of consumers' content-customisation needs, interaction requirements and entertainment wishes, which will shape the future of the "TV" in all its new forms. "New technology is transforming the TV industry", says Mark Thomson, BBC CEO for Observer. Watching TV more and more happens together with PC-related activities, e.g. chatting with friends, talking on the phone, searching on the Internet for related info about programs. Already in 2000, the trend was by "couch-and-mouse toys serving 27 million Americans who were able to watch TV and surf the Web at the same time - the "telewebbers". Nowadays, digital video-recording software provides the facility to "time-shift" live television programming through a PC (e.g. via TiVo and ReplayTV). Companies are attempting to bundle "an electronic program guide into its software, along with personal viewing agents that can recommend broadcasted programs based on your viewing habits" . For example, while watching "Dancing with the stars", you can vote for your favourite couple, read their biographies, find other programs this week where they appear, record your favourite dances and send them to friends; you can also join live chats during the program. However, "such interactive services stay TV-centric (in the device sense of the term TV) and use Internet and digital technology only to enhance the entertainment that you expect to see when you plop yourself down in front of the tube."
Participant(s): Stefan Dietze, Neil Benn, Harry Yu
Project Champion: John Domingue
URL: http://projects.kmi.open.ac.uk/notube/
External Publications
Dietze, S., Benn, N., Domingue, J., Conconi, A., and Cattaneo, F. (2009) Two-Fold Semantic Web Service Matchmaking – Applying Ontology Mapping for Service Discovery, 4th Asian Semantic Web Conference, Shanghai, China
Aroyo, L., Nixon, L., and Dietze, S. (2009) Television and the Future Internet: the NoTube project, Poster at Future Internet Symposium (FIS) 2009, Berlin, Germany
Dietze, S., Orthuber, W., and Domingue, J. (2009) Blending the Physical and the Digital through Conceptual Spaces, Workshop: OneSpace 2009 at Future Internet Symposium (FIS) 2009, Berlin, Germany
Dietze, S., Gugliotta, A., and Domingue, J. (2009) Exploiting Metrics for Similarity-based Semantic Web Service Discovery, IEEE 7th International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2009), Los Angeles, CA, USA
Dietze, S., and Domingue, J. (2009) Enriching Service Semantics through Conceptual Vector Spaces, Workshop: Workshop on Ontology, Conceptualization and Epistemology for
Information Systems, Software Engineering and Service Science (ONTOSE'09) at The 21st International Conference on Advanced Information Systems (CAiSE'09), Amsterdam, NL
