Workshop on Future Television:

integrating the Social and Semantic Web

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At EuroITV 2010 (www.euroitv2010.org), Tampere, Finland  

1330-1700 on June 9, 2010

[Target Audience | Workshop Program | Important Dates | Chairs and PC]

The introduction of Internet capabilities and Web content integration to Television means much more than seeing Web pages on TV or having on screen widgets. Emerging Web trends such as social Web technologies and semantic Web technologies can both enable new and exciting types of service for the Television based on knowing the viewer and the content, and linking this to what the viewer does and who the viewer knows elsewhere on the Web. This workshop seeks to explore the possibilities and challenges inherent in the overlap of social, semantic and television technology, bringing together experts from all three areas to chart the route into this new generation of television experience. Our goal is to take the first steps in developing a common vision for social-semantic-Television, including:

• how social Web, semantic Web and television technology can and could be integrated;
• what types of new and innovative services could become possible on that basis;
• where data is available and re-usable, and where data could be generated and re-used;
• existing and needed specifications and standards;
• which concrete steps need to be taken to achieve uptake of the technology in the TV industry.

Target Audience

We address experts from three communities in which there is only a small overlap at present, despite the clear mutual benefits to be gained for integration of social Web, semantic Web, and television technologies. The emerging state of the art is the joint presentation of social Web and television (e.g. on-screen widgets) but without any underlying integration. Semantic techology provides a powerful means to make social Web and television data machine-understandable, and hence automatically processable by applications and services. A combination of the three technology strands opens new innovation and exploitation potential for data owners, providers, network operators, television companies, broadcasters, and hardware manufacturers as well as entrepreneurs who can fill the gap as developers and providers of new added-value data-based IPTV services. We expect all of these groups will take an interest in the workshop alongside researchers in the fields of social Web, semantic Web and television, particularly those focused already on the overlaps between these fields.

Format

We will have a half day workshop with the following agenda:

Social and Semantic TV: individual views

1330-1400  NoTube: Linking TV and Web Using Semantics (Schopman et al)

1400-1430  Semantic TV-resources brokering: a two-staged approach (Yu,
Dietze & Benn)

1430-1500  Integrating social networks in an IPTV recommender system
(Cerdeira et al)

Coffee break

1500-1530  Posters and demos  (from all three paper presentations, plus the invited poster  "Digital Video Interaction to support frontal lecturing in multiple platforms of internet based communication")

Social and Semantic TV: a wider discussion

1530-1615 Invited talk by Jonathan Marshall, CTO, Slipstream.tv

"Social Semantics and Broadcast: How to bring television back to the TV"

As a topic for my presentation I would like to talk about the semantic opportunities that are enabled by integrating social networks, broadcast and on demand content.  Rather than add media to social networks, we believe that broadcast TV is the social wavefront which can then drive semantic links to existing and new social networks. 

1615-1700 Panel on the Future of Television - integrating TV with the
Social and Semantic Web (Lora Aroyo, VU Amsterdam; Jonathan Marshall, Slipstream.tv. Moderator: Lyndon Nixon, STI International)

The closing panel will give the word to a selected group of experts (one from the Web community, one from the TV community) and engage workshop attendees in an open discussion around how to achieve the vision of social/semantically-enhanced television: how to integrate different research activities? what aspects are missing in current research, e.g. agreeing on standards? which steps can be taken to ensure uptake in the television industry?

The input made at the workshop will be collated into a report on The Future of Social and Semantic Television which should be a first step towards a focused and co-ordinated vision for this exciting new area.

Important Dates

Submission deadline: EXTENDED DEADLINE! April 12, 2010

Notification of acceptance:  April 21, 2010

Camera ready copy: April 30, 2010

Workshop day:  June 9, 2010

Chairs

Lyndon Nixon, STI International, AT  

Lora Aroyo, VUA, NL  

Dan Brickley, VUA, NL

Libby Miller, BBC, UK

Programme Committee

Stefan Dietze, The Open University, UK

Davide Palmisano, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - Web Of Data Research Unit, IT

Yves Raimond, BBC, UK