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Wikipedia and DBpedia for Media - Managing Audiovisual Resources in Their Semantic Context

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The EBU, NRK and VRT are three European media companies. The EBU is the largest association of broadcasters. The NRK and VRT are the national public broadcasters in Norway and in Belgium (Flemish). The EBU, NRK and VRT are known in the media community for striving innovation. They have developed recognised expertise in engineering solutions and standards around the management of information for the audiovisual industry in a multi-lingual environment. They promote the use of semantic technologies for the production and distribution of content across a variety of media and platforms. In this context, Wikipedia, DBpedia, automatic metadata extraction and other tools are important information sources. This is not an academic paper but a report on the operational use of such information (access, usability, long term availability of information, editorial quality) and needs by the media industry. For broadcasters, minimizing cost and complexity is of the essence!

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Notes

  1. 1.

    https://www.nrk.no/.

  2. 2.

    http://www.vrt.be/.

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    Providing access to content independently from a time schedule e.g. on demand.

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    http://www.ebu.ch/home.

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    http://wiki.DBpedia.org/.

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    SOAP and REST.

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    Framework for Interoperable Media Services, http://www.fims.tv.

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    http://www.ebu.ch/metadata/ontologies/ebucore/ (html documentation).

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    http://www.ebu.ch/metadata/ontologies/ebucore/ebucore.rdf.

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    The CCDM is used to model content production, management and distribution workflows.

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    https://tech.ebu.ch/docs/tech/tech3351.pdf.

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    http://lov.okfn.org/dataset/lov/.

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    http://odf.olympictech.org/ (International Olympic Committee – Olympic Data Feed).

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    http://www.eurovision.net/.

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    http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/NOTE-rdf11-primer-20140624/ (RDF 1.1 Primer).

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    http://www.imdb.com/.

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    http://www.geonames.org.

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    Wikipedia authors can express non-factual views, which may potentially affect the editorial quality of an article or the quality of the data being extracted.

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    https://tech.ebu.ch/docs/tech/tech3351.pdf (EBU Class Conceptual Data Model).

  20. 20.

    http://babelnet.org/.

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    https://www.Wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page.

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    http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-primer/.

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIaLnLKuXu8.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank EBU, NRK and VRT for authorizing them to write this paper and report on recent Research & Development as well as operational business-related activities.

The authors also wish to thank the Wikipedia and DBpedia communities, and supporting teams, for the tremendous work done.

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Evain, JP., Matton, M., Vaervagen, T. (2017). Wikipedia and DBpedia for Media - Managing Audiovisual Resources in Their Semantic Context. In: van Erp, M., et al. Knowledge Graphs and Language Technology. ISWC 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10579. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68723-0_4

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