EventMedia: Foster Event Data Publication and Reuse ... presentation made at the Open Data Week in Marseille on 26/06/2013 (ODWM)

1. EventMedia: Foster Event Data
Publication and Reuse
Raphaël Troncy <raphael.troncy@eurecom.fr>
@rtroncy

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6. What are Events?
Events are observable occurrences grouping
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Experiences documented by Media
People Places Time
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7. http://www.flickr.com/photos/crsan/3697785107

8. EventMedia: User Tasks and Challenges
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Goals:
 Discover PAST, PRESENT and FUTURE events
 Live, relive and predict experiences through shared media
 Enhance search and recommendations mechanisms
 Support the decision making process
Challenges
 Semantization of Data (events, media, people)
 Reconciliation of sparse and highly heterogeneous data
 User-centric design: discovering, deciding and recommending
 Scalability, Caching and Optimization
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9. Events through the web …
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Event Directories
Media Platforms
Social Networks
Allows opportunistic/serendipitous discovery
Limited social features and Information
incompleteness (low coverage, weak decision)
Aids remembering and sharing past experiences
Lack of consistent events descriptions
Attendance: popularity and friends' whereabouts,
attendees’ opinions.
Limited discovery mechanism: need to filter out
relevant information.
Explore semantic connections to create better overviews of events
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10. There’s a lot of information out there…
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11. A lot of information…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mwparenteau/432039783
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12. Approach
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 Aggregate heterogeneous data sources
 Unify into one data model using Semantic
Web technologies
 Enrich with media, social data and
background knowledge
 Identify meaningful and/or interesting
relationships between events, media, and
people
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13. Róisín Murphy at Nouveau Casino
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14. Representing Events with
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15. Róisín Murphy at Nouveau Casino
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16. Media explicitly associated with the event
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2.3+ million images
over 120.000+ events
Machine tags
“lastfm:events”
APIs
11.000+ videos
over 3000+ events
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17. Representing Media with Media Ontology
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18. Architecture (generic dashboard)
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Real-time Reconciliation
- Tag-based mapping
- Instance matching
Heterogeneous data sources
Data Crawling
RDF Conversion
RSS Update
Web Applications
SPARQL
REST API (Elda)
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19. EventMedia dashboard
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20. Interlinking
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Event
Media
MusicBrainz
DBpedia
Geonames
Foursquare
Uberblic
Freebase
Agent
 Last.fm
 Eventful
 MusicBrainz
 DBpedia
 Freebase
 New York Times
Location
 Last.fm
 Eventful
 Upcoming
 DBpedia
 Freebase
 Foursquare
 Geonames
Events
 Last.fm
 Eventful
 Upcoming
 Eventbrite
 DBpedia
 Freebase
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 SPARQL endpoint: http://eventmedia.eurecom.fr/sparql
 RESTful API : http://eventmedia.eurecom.fr/rest/event/

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Live Update
Tag = *:event
Per week
• 1500 Photos
• 130 events
Number of Items posted per days of the weekNumber of Items posted during the last days
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23. Sharing photos vs event categories
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24. Sharing photos vs number of participants
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25. Sharing photos vs country of participants
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26. Web Application
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27. Demo: Live your event
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http://eventmedia.eurecom.fr
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28. What's on this evening?
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What's on this evening?

30. What's on this evening?
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31. What's on this evening?
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https://www.facebook.com/TheEventMedia

33. EventMedia has been awarded
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dVD0SqCB6s

34. http://www.slideshare.net/troncy
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