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TVGuide2.0: applying the Web2.0 fundamentals to IDTV

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In this paper we introduce our experiences in applying the Web 2.0 philosophy to build a TV guide system for Interactive Digital TV (IDTV) platforms. Subscribers give their opinion about TV content and, informally, a folksonomy is progressively built. Based on this shared knowledge, the TV guide obtains personal recommendations and allows users to browse among the multimedia content. Additionally, and over this collaborative layer, a more formal vision enables applying semantic reasoning to supplement the knowledge informally inferred.

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  1. http://www.xmltv.org

  2. Social Programming Guides are constructed from the Service Information in the transport stream as described in Section 6.

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  1. Department of Telematics Engineering, University of Vigo, Vigo, 36310, Spain

    Rebeca P. Díaz Redondo, Ana Fernández Vilas, Marta Rey-López, José Juan Pazos Arias, Alberto Gil Solla, Manuel Ramos Cabrer & Jorge García Duque

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Work funded by the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (Gobierno de España) research project TSI2007-61599 and by the Consellería de Educación e Ordenación Universitaria (Xunta de Galicia) incentives files 2007/000016-0.

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Díaz Redondo, R.P., Fernández Vilas, A., Rey-López, M. et al. TVGuide2.0: applying the Web2.0 fundamentals to IDTV. Multimed Tools Appl 53, 151–179 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-010-0494-2

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