This document presents the results of a user study conducted to determine guidelines for selecting relevant entities from news videos to provide additional information about. The study identified entities users find most interesting from five news videos by extracting candidate entities from various sources and having participants rate them. The results showed users prefer person and organization entities over locations and sources like subtitles alone are insufficient, performing better when combined with expert suggestions or related articles. Wikipedia was found to provide generally useful additional information about the entities. Engineering guidelines are also provided for presenting aggregated web content in news companion applications.
LinkedTV Deliverable 2.7 - Final Linked Media Layer and EvaluationLinkedTV
This deliverable presents the evaluation of content annotation and content enrichment systems that are part of the final tool set developed within the LinkedTV consortium. The evaluations were performed on both the Linked News and Linked Culture trial content, as well as on other content annotated for this purpose. The evaluation spans three languages: German (Linked News), Dutch (Linked
Culture) and English. Selected algorithms and tools were also subject to benchmarking in two international contests: MediaEval 2014 and TAC’14. Additionally, the Microposts 2015 NEEL Challenge is being organized with the support of LinkedTV.
LinkedTV Deliverable 6.5 - Final evaluation of the LinkedTV ScenariosLinkedTV
The deliverable presents the results of evaluating the final
scenario demonstrators LinkedNews and LinkedCulture in the LinkedTV project. We tested specifically user satisfaction with the enriched TV experience we enabled for cultural heritage and news TV programs. We also supported the evaluation of other aspects of the LinkedTV technologies in the trials, specifically the personalization and content curation.
LinkedTV Deliverable 4.7 - Contextualisation and personalisation evaluation a...LinkedTV
This deliverable covers all the aspects of evaluation of the overall LinkedTV personalization workflow, as well as re-evaluations of techniques where newer technology and / or algorithmic capacity offer new insight into the general performance. The implicit contextualized personalization workflow, the implicit uncontextualized workflow in the premises of the final LinkedTV application, the advances
in context tracking given new technologies emerged and the outlook of video recommendation beyond LinkedTV is measured and analyzed in this document.
LinkedTV Deliverable 1.6 - Intelligent hypervideo analysis evaluation, final ...LinkedTV
This deliverable describes the conducted evaluation activities for assessing the performance of a number of developed methods for intelligent hypervideo analysis and the usability of the implemented Editor Tool for supporting video annotation and enrichment. Based on the performance evaluations reported in D1.4 regarding a set of LinkedTV analysis components, we extended our experiments for assessing the effectiveness of newer versions of these methods as well as of entirely new techniques, concerning the accuracy and the time efficiency
of the analysis. For this purpose, in-house experiments and participations at international benchmarking activities were made, and the outcomes are reported in this deliverable. Moreover, we present the results of user trials regarding the developed Editor Tool, where groups of experts assessed its usability and the supported functionalities, and
evaluated the usefulness and the accuracy of the implemented video segmentation approaches based on the analysis requirements of the LinkedTV scenarios. By this deliverable we complete the reporting of WP1 evaluations that aimed to assess the efficiency of the developed
multimedia analysis methods throughout the project, according to the analysis requirements of the LinkedTV scenarios.
LinkedTV Deliverable 2.7 - Final Linked Media Layer and EvaluationLinkedTV
This deliverable presents the evaluation of content annotation and content enrichment systems that are part of the final tool set developed within the LinkedTV consortium. The evaluations were performed on both the Linked News and Linked Culture trial content, as well as on other content annotated for this purpose. The evaluation spans three languages: German (Linked News), Dutch (Linked
Culture) and English. Selected algorithms and tools were also subject to benchmarking in two international contests: MediaEval 2014 and TAC’14. Additionally, the Microposts 2015 NEEL Challenge is being organized with the support of LinkedTV.
LinkedTV Deliverable 6.5 - Final evaluation of the LinkedTV ScenariosLinkedTV
The deliverable presents the results of evaluating the final
scenario demonstrators LinkedNews and LinkedCulture in the LinkedTV project. We tested specifically user satisfaction with the enriched TV experience we enabled for cultural heritage and news TV programs. We also supported the evaluation of other aspects of the LinkedTV technologies in the trials, specifically the personalization and content curation.
LinkedTV Deliverable 4.7 - Contextualisation and personalisation evaluation a...LinkedTV
This deliverable covers all the aspects of evaluation of the overall LinkedTV personalization workflow, as well as re-evaluations of techniques where newer technology and / or algorithmic capacity offer new insight into the general performance. The implicit contextualized personalization workflow, the implicit uncontextualized workflow in the premises of the final LinkedTV application, the advances
in context tracking given new technologies emerged and the outlook of video recommendation beyond LinkedTV is measured and analyzed in this document.
LinkedTV Deliverable 1.6 - Intelligent hypervideo analysis evaluation, final ...LinkedTV
This deliverable describes the conducted evaluation activities for assessing the performance of a number of developed methods for intelligent hypervideo analysis and the usability of the implemented Editor Tool for supporting video annotation and enrichment. Based on the performance evaluations reported in D1.4 regarding a set of LinkedTV analysis components, we extended our experiments for assessing the effectiveness of newer versions of these methods as well as of entirely new techniques, concerning the accuracy and the time efficiency
of the analysis. For this purpose, in-house experiments and participations at international benchmarking activities were made, and the outcomes are reported in this deliverable. Moreover, we present the results of user trials regarding the developed Editor Tool, where groups of experts assessed its usability and the supported functionalities, and
evaluated the usefulness and the accuracy of the implemented video segmentation approaches based on the analysis requirements of the LinkedTV scenarios. By this deliverable we complete the reporting of WP1 evaluations that aimed to assess the efficiency of the developed
multimedia analysis methods throughout the project, according to the analysis requirements of the LinkedTV scenarios.
LinkedTV Deliverable 9.3 Final LinkedTV Project ReportLinkedTV
This document comprises the final report of LinkedTV. It includes a publishable summary of the project's scientific results and technological outcomes, a plan for use and dissemination of foreground IP and a list of dissemination activities (publications and events)
LinkedTV Deliverable 5.7 - Validation of the LinkedTV ArchitectureLinkedTV
The LinkedTV architecture lays the foundation for the
LinkedTV system. It consists of the integrating platform for the end-to-end functionality, the backend components and the supporting client components. Since the architecture of a software system has a fundamental impact on quality
attributes, it is important to evaluate its design. The document at hand reports on the validation of the LinkedTV architecture.
LinkedTV Deliverable D3.7 User Interfaces selected and refined (version 2)LinkedTV
This report describes the LinkedTV user interfaces. Based on the results user studies and the initial evaluation of the year 2 prototype we selected and refined the interfaces. We selected a single screen application that uses HbbTV technology to provide additional information about a TV program as an overlay on the TV broadcast. In addition, we worked towards TV program companion applications that are tailored for two domains: news and cultural heritage. With these applications we demonstrate different types of interaction modes, such as synchronized content on a second screen, and bookmarking chapters combined with the exploration of related content after the program. The interfaces are built on top of the Multiscreen Toolkit. We created a component-based infrastructure that allows us to quickly create tailored companion applications by reusing and configuring interface components. In the final part of the project we finalize this approach and test it by applying it to a new domain.
LinkedTV Deliverable 5.5 - LinkedTV front-end: video player and MediaCanvas A...LinkedTV
The LinkedTV media player and API has evolved from a single player and limited API in version 1 to a toolkit to allow rapid development and creation of different kind of applications within the HTML5 / multiscreen space. The main reason for this transition is that during the course of the Linked TV project different partners had different requirements for their scenarios. Instead of trying to fit all these requirements into one player and, most likely, compromise on the functionalities of the scenarios we wanted to offer something that would allow all partners a satisfiable solution.
Therefore the Springfield Multiscreen Toolkit, or short SMT, has been developed. The aim for the SMT was to allow flexibility for developing multiscreen applications. Also from a commercial point of view a toolkit with examples is more interesting than a pure player as it gives the freedom of developing new ideas with the LinkedTV platform.
LinkedTV Deliverable D1.5 The Editor Tool, final release LinkedTV
This document reports on the design and implementation of the final version of the editor tool (ET) v2.0, where its purpose is to serve the program editing teams of broadcasters that have adopted LinkedTV’s interactive television solution into their workflow. Two of these teams are currently represented in the LinkedTV project, namely the RBB team and the AVROTROS team (formerly known as AVRO).
The main purpose of the ET is to provide a means to correct and curate automatically generated annotations and hyperlinks created by the audiovisual and textual analysis technologies developed in WP 1 and 2 of the LinkedTV project. Without the intervention of human editors to correct this data, there is a reasonable risk of exposing inappropriate, incorrect or irrelevant information to the viewers of a LinkedTV interactive broadcast.
The relevance of the farming community regarding zoonosesHarm Kiezebrink
During the EFSA’s Stakeholder Consultative meeting in Parma on Wednesday 29th and Thursday 30th June 2011, EFS interacted with the stakeholders on EFSA’s scientific activities and the outlook of the future activities involving the stakeholders. During the meeting Annette TOFT presented the opinion of the European farmers and agricultural cooperatives COPA – COGECA stressing the relevance of zoonoses questions to farmers and agri - cooperatives activities.
EFSA AHAW report on monitoring procedures at poultry slaughterhousesHarm Kiezebrink
The EFSA Panel on Animal Health and Welfare (AHAW) was asked to deliver scientific opinions on monitoring procedures at slaughterhouses for different animal species, stunning methods and slaughter without stunning. AHAW agreed that, although it is traditional to look for outcomes of unconsciousness in poultry following stunning, the risk of poor welfare can be detected better if bird welfare monitoring is focused on detecting consciousness, i.e. ineffective stunning or recovery of consciousness.
Therefore, the indicators were phrased neutrally (e.g. corneal reflex) and the outcomes were phrased either suggesting unconsciousness (e.g. absence of corneal reflex) or suggesting consciousness (e.g. presence of corneal reflex). This approach is commonly used in animal health studies (e.g. testing for the presence of a disease) but very new to animal welfare monitoring in slaughterhouses.
A toolbox of selected indicators is proposed to check for signs of consciousness in poultry after stunning with waterbaths or gas mixtures; a different toolbox of indicators is proposed for confirming death of the birds following slaughter without stunning.
Final DG SANCO study on various methods of stunning for poultryHarm Kiezebrink
DG SANCO study on the various methods of stunning poultry
The purpose of the study(published December 2012) was to investigate the scale of the use of multiple-bird water bath stunners, the possible alternatives and their respective socio-economic and environmental impacts. Additionally, the study had to examine if phasing out the use of water bath stunning as recommended by EFSA is a feasible option and, if so, under which terms.
It is estimated that there are around 5,300 commercial slaughterhouses in the EU, the majority of which are found in France. Where available, data on slaughterhouse capacity suggest significant differences between Member States in terms of individual capacity. This is reflected by the concentration of slaughterhouse sectors within Member States with a highly concentrated sector in some Member States such as Germany, the Netherlands and Italy and a less concentrated sector in other Member States such as Spain, Poland and Hungary. EU slaughterhouses slaughtered around 5.81 billion broiler chickens and had an estimated economic output between €30.6 to €32.5 billion in 2011.
It was estimated that some 16,000 staff handle live birds across the EU at present. Approximately half of these work in Member States where formal training is required by national law. Just under half work in Member States where there are no formal training requirements, though it is probable that on the job training is provided in some of these Member States.
The majority of poultry in the EU is stunned using multiple bird waterbaths. More precisely:
• 81% of broilers are stunned using waterbaths; 9% using CAS
• 83% of end of lay hens are stunned using waterbaths; 7% using CAS
• 61% of parent stock using waterbaths, and 37% using CAS
• 76% of turkeys are stunned using waterbaths, and 24% using CAS.
The most important driver behind the choice of stunning system is installation and running cost, which is cheapest for waterbath systems. Product quality and revenue is also important with certain stunning systems providing quality advantages for specific end markets which often result in higher revenue, for example for breast fillets resulting from CAS stunning.
A complete mandatory ban on waterbaths was considered difficult. There would be positive aspects of a ban; from a political perspective, it would bring the industry into line with the 2004 recommendation of EFSA, and in social terms there would be a positive impact on animal welfare.
However, there were considered to be significant potential negative impacts and problems. Mandatory phasing out would have strong economic impacts on operators, and these would be accentuated for smaller slaughterhouses due to the technological issue of the current lack of commercial alternatives to waterbath stunning systems.
Rabbit farming is a small-scale industry that does not have a major national or international representative organisation in most of the EU countries. Over 76% of the total production in the EU is in Italy, Spain and France, and home production is still widespread. The production of jointed and processed products is increasing rapidly compared with whole carcase sales and rabbit meat consumption, although less than other meats, is still significant in some countries.
EFSA Scientific report on animal health and welfare aspects of Avian InfluenzaHarm Kiezebrink
In 2005 the Eurpean Commission asks the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) to review 2000 and 2003 scientific pinions (SCAHAW, 2000 and 2003) on avian influenza in the light of more recent scientific data.
The EFSA scientific opinion should in particular describe:
1. an assessment of the risk of the introduction, and possible secondary spread, of LPAI and HPAI into the EU via different commodities, such as live poultry, ornamental birds, hatching eggs, table eggs, fresh poultry and other poultry products. In addition the scientific opinion should describe the risk factors for disease introduction into poultry holdings and surveillance tools and procedures available for early detection of AI in poultry holdings in relation to those risks;
2. the role of “backyard” poultry flocks in the epidemiology of avian influenza and available disease control tools for this specific population;
3. the risk of disease transmission between certain avian species in particular with respect to pigeons and anseriformes;
4. the risk of virus persistence in poultry manure and farm waste and a description of the possible inactivation and disinfection procedures that could be applied to these materials;
5. the animal welfare aspects of avian influenza including the implications of the different control strategies.
LinkedTV Deliverable 9.3 Final LinkedTV Project ReportLinkedTV
This document comprises the final report of LinkedTV. It includes a publishable summary of the project's scientific results and technological outcomes, a plan for use and dissemination of foreground IP and a list of dissemination activities (publications and events)
LinkedTV Deliverable 5.7 - Validation of the LinkedTV ArchitectureLinkedTV
The LinkedTV architecture lays the foundation for the
LinkedTV system. It consists of the integrating platform for the end-to-end functionality, the backend components and the supporting client components. Since the architecture of a software system has a fundamental impact on quality
attributes, it is important to evaluate its design. The document at hand reports on the validation of the LinkedTV architecture.
LinkedTV Deliverable D3.7 User Interfaces selected and refined (version 2)LinkedTV
This report describes the LinkedTV user interfaces. Based on the results user studies and the initial evaluation of the year 2 prototype we selected and refined the interfaces. We selected a single screen application that uses HbbTV technology to provide additional information about a TV program as an overlay on the TV broadcast. In addition, we worked towards TV program companion applications that are tailored for two domains: news and cultural heritage. With these applications we demonstrate different types of interaction modes, such as synchronized content on a second screen, and bookmarking chapters combined with the exploration of related content after the program. The interfaces are built on top of the Multiscreen Toolkit. We created a component-based infrastructure that allows us to quickly create tailored companion applications by reusing and configuring interface components. In the final part of the project we finalize this approach and test it by applying it to a new domain.
LinkedTV Deliverable 5.5 - LinkedTV front-end: video player and MediaCanvas A...LinkedTV
The LinkedTV media player and API has evolved from a single player and limited API in version 1 to a toolkit to allow rapid development and creation of different kind of applications within the HTML5 / multiscreen space. The main reason for this transition is that during the course of the Linked TV project different partners had different requirements for their scenarios. Instead of trying to fit all these requirements into one player and, most likely, compromise on the functionalities of the scenarios we wanted to offer something that would allow all partners a satisfiable solution.
Therefore the Springfield Multiscreen Toolkit, or short SMT, has been developed. The aim for the SMT was to allow flexibility for developing multiscreen applications. Also from a commercial point of view a toolkit with examples is more interesting than a pure player as it gives the freedom of developing new ideas with the LinkedTV platform.
LinkedTV Deliverable D1.5 The Editor Tool, final release LinkedTV
This document reports on the design and implementation of the final version of the editor tool (ET) v2.0, where its purpose is to serve the program editing teams of broadcasters that have adopted LinkedTV’s interactive television solution into their workflow. Two of these teams are currently represented in the LinkedTV project, namely the RBB team and the AVROTROS team (formerly known as AVRO).
The main purpose of the ET is to provide a means to correct and curate automatically generated annotations and hyperlinks created by the audiovisual and textual analysis technologies developed in WP 1 and 2 of the LinkedTV project. Without the intervention of human editors to correct this data, there is a reasonable risk of exposing inappropriate, incorrect or irrelevant information to the viewers of a LinkedTV interactive broadcast.
The relevance of the farming community regarding zoonosesHarm Kiezebrink
During the EFSA’s Stakeholder Consultative meeting in Parma on Wednesday 29th and Thursday 30th June 2011, EFS interacted with the stakeholders on EFSA’s scientific activities and the outlook of the future activities involving the stakeholders. During the meeting Annette TOFT presented the opinion of the European farmers and agricultural cooperatives COPA – COGECA stressing the relevance of zoonoses questions to farmers and agri - cooperatives activities.
EFSA AHAW report on monitoring procedures at poultry slaughterhousesHarm Kiezebrink
The EFSA Panel on Animal Health and Welfare (AHAW) was asked to deliver scientific opinions on monitoring procedures at slaughterhouses for different animal species, stunning methods and slaughter without stunning. AHAW agreed that, although it is traditional to look for outcomes of unconsciousness in poultry following stunning, the risk of poor welfare can be detected better if bird welfare monitoring is focused on detecting consciousness, i.e. ineffective stunning or recovery of consciousness.
Therefore, the indicators were phrased neutrally (e.g. corneal reflex) and the outcomes were phrased either suggesting unconsciousness (e.g. absence of corneal reflex) or suggesting consciousness (e.g. presence of corneal reflex). This approach is commonly used in animal health studies (e.g. testing for the presence of a disease) but very new to animal welfare monitoring in slaughterhouses.
A toolbox of selected indicators is proposed to check for signs of consciousness in poultry after stunning with waterbaths or gas mixtures; a different toolbox of indicators is proposed for confirming death of the birds following slaughter without stunning.
Final DG SANCO study on various methods of stunning for poultryHarm Kiezebrink
DG SANCO study on the various methods of stunning poultry
The purpose of the study(published December 2012) was to investigate the scale of the use of multiple-bird water bath stunners, the possible alternatives and their respective socio-economic and environmental impacts. Additionally, the study had to examine if phasing out the use of water bath stunning as recommended by EFSA is a feasible option and, if so, under which terms.
It is estimated that there are around 5,300 commercial slaughterhouses in the EU, the majority of which are found in France. Where available, data on slaughterhouse capacity suggest significant differences between Member States in terms of individual capacity. This is reflected by the concentration of slaughterhouse sectors within Member States with a highly concentrated sector in some Member States such as Germany, the Netherlands and Italy and a less concentrated sector in other Member States such as Spain, Poland and Hungary. EU slaughterhouses slaughtered around 5.81 billion broiler chickens and had an estimated economic output between €30.6 to €32.5 billion in 2011.
It was estimated that some 16,000 staff handle live birds across the EU at present. Approximately half of these work in Member States where formal training is required by national law. Just under half work in Member States where there are no formal training requirements, though it is probable that on the job training is provided in some of these Member States.
The majority of poultry in the EU is stunned using multiple bird waterbaths. More precisely:
• 81% of broilers are stunned using waterbaths; 9% using CAS
• 83% of end of lay hens are stunned using waterbaths; 7% using CAS
• 61% of parent stock using waterbaths, and 37% using CAS
• 76% of turkeys are stunned using waterbaths, and 24% using CAS.
The most important driver behind the choice of stunning system is installation and running cost, which is cheapest for waterbath systems. Product quality and revenue is also important with certain stunning systems providing quality advantages for specific end markets which often result in higher revenue, for example for breast fillets resulting from CAS stunning.
A complete mandatory ban on waterbaths was considered difficult. There would be positive aspects of a ban; from a political perspective, it would bring the industry into line with the 2004 recommendation of EFSA, and in social terms there would be a positive impact on animal welfare.
However, there were considered to be significant potential negative impacts and problems. Mandatory phasing out would have strong economic impacts on operators, and these would be accentuated for smaller slaughterhouses due to the technological issue of the current lack of commercial alternatives to waterbath stunning systems.
Rabbit farming is a small-scale industry that does not have a major national or international representative organisation in most of the EU countries. Over 76% of the total production in the EU is in Italy, Spain and France, and home production is still widespread. The production of jointed and processed products is increasing rapidly compared with whole carcase sales and rabbit meat consumption, although less than other meats, is still significant in some countries.
EFSA Scientific report on animal health and welfare aspects of Avian InfluenzaHarm Kiezebrink
In 2005 the Eurpean Commission asks the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) to review 2000 and 2003 scientific pinions (SCAHAW, 2000 and 2003) on avian influenza in the light of more recent scientific data.
The EFSA scientific opinion should in particular describe:
1. an assessment of the risk of the introduction, and possible secondary spread, of LPAI and HPAI into the EU via different commodities, such as live poultry, ornamental birds, hatching eggs, table eggs, fresh poultry and other poultry products. In addition the scientific opinion should describe the risk factors for disease introduction into poultry holdings and surveillance tools and procedures available for early detection of AI in poultry holdings in relation to those risks;
2. the role of “backyard” poultry flocks in the epidemiology of avian influenza and available disease control tools for this specific population;
3. the risk of disease transmission between certain avian species in particular with respect to pigeons and anseriformes;
4. the risk of virus persistence in poultry manure and farm waste and a description of the possible inactivation and disinfection procedures that could be applied to these materials;
5. the animal welfare aspects of avian influenza including the implications of the different control strategies.
D2.3.1 Evaluation results of the LinkedUp Veni competitionHendrik Drachsler
This document D2.3.1 is the first report out of three deliverables (D2.3.2, D2.3.3) of Task 2.4 - Evaluation of challenge submissions. Task 2.4 is about the actual assessment of the participating projects within the LinkedUp Veni, Vidi and Vici competition on the basis of the LinkedUp Evaluation Framework (D2.2.1).
We especially report about the outcomes of the various competitions and analyse the practical experiences of the experts with the LinkedUp Evaluation Framework.
In the current document D2.3.1 we report about the Linked Data tools and ideas that have been submitted to the first data competition - Veni. In total, we received 23 submissions, 8 of them have been shortlisted and invite to a poster presentation at the Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon), 3 of them have been awarded at OKCon according to the Linkedup evaluation process, and one submission received an audience award.
This deliverable provides an overview of the Veni submissions, explains the evaluation procedure that result in a short list of the best submissions, justifies the decision for the winners, and also reports the experiences with the evaluation framework that has been created in the previous WP2 deliverables [7][8]
http://portal.ou.nl/documents/363049/b40fb118-6e65-4875-86e9-8def1266c552
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Drachsler, H., Stoyanov, S., Pieper, F., Guy, M. (2013). D2.3.1 Evaluation results of the LinkedUp Veni competition. LinkedUp project. Heerlen, The Netherlands.
This deliverable describes the final LinkedTV scenario demonstrators, which have been implemented with the most recent versions of the LinkedTV technology set. The demonstrators use real broadcaster TV programming (news from RBB and cultural heritage from AVRO) and show the benefits of LinkedTV through providing seamless access during the programme to related information and content from the Internet. They also validate the maturity of the LinkedTV technologies which were used to implement the scenario demonstrators.
The main purpose of the current deliverable D2.2.1 is to hold the current version of the Evaluation Framework and to operationalise it for the LinkedUp challenge judges into a concrete evaluation instrument. This deliverable is not intended as a very elaborated report rather than a summary of the current version of the Evaluation Framework based on the extensive studies in deliverable D2.1 – Evaluation Methods and Metrics. D2.2.1will be reconsidered in the final report of WP2 to demonstrate the development of the Evaluation Framework during the life cycle of the LinkedUp project. For this purpose it is supportive to have the first version of the Evaluation Framework as a tangible outcome and an own entity as conducted in this deliverable.
http://portal.ou.nl/documents/363049/27b00ab7-2c2e-4fda-90a1-6db41e6493ac
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
Drachsler, H., Greller, W., Stoyanov, S. (2013). D2.2.1 Evaluation Frameowork. LinkedUp project. Heerlen, The Netherlands.
LoCloud - D4.3: Regional Training Workshopslocloud
Three workshops were held in Bordeaux, Poznań and Graz during the autumn of 2014. The topics covered during the workshops included: the MORE repository, the MINT ingestion tool, the LoCloud Collections (formerly Lightweight Digital Library service), the Historical Place Names service, the Vocabulary service, the Geolocation Enrichment Tools and the Enrichment Service. Finally, an introduction to the LoCloud support mechanism was provided covering the support portal, the help-desk and the questions-and-answers sub-systems.
This report provides overview of the agenda of training workshops, and summarizes their outcomes including some general recommendations for the project regarding the challenges seen as the most important by workshops participants.
This is one of 7 reports provided in work package 3: Micro services for small and medium institutions.
Authors:
Aitor Soroa, Arantxa Otegi(, Eneko Agirre(, Rodrigo Agerri
Universidad del País Vasco
(University of the Basque Country)
(EHU)
The LoCloud Live Support Portal (http://support.locloud.eu) is a gateway for all components of the LoCloud support mechanism provided. The support portal gives LoCloud partners and other interested parties unrestricted public access to:
1. Descriptions of services and applications
2. Technical and end-‐user documentation for all services and applications, and training materials
3. Frequently asked questions that are of relevance to the wider community
4. Help-desk functionality
User behavior model & recommendation on basis of social networks Shah Alam Sabuj
At present social networks play an important role to express people's sentiment and interest in a particular field. Extracting a user's public social network data (what the user shares with friends and relatives and how the user reacts over others' thought) means extracting the user's behavior. Defining some determined hypothesis if we make machine understand human sentiment and interest, it is possible to recommend a user about his/her personal interest on basis of the user's sentiment analyzed by machine. Our main approach is to suggest a user regarding the user's specific interest that is anticipated by analyzing the user's public data. This can be extended to further business analysis to suggest products or services of different companies depending on the consumer's personal choice. This automation will also help to choose the correct candidate for any questionnaire. This system will also help anyone to know about himself or herself, how one's behavior may influence others. It is possible to identify different types of people such as- dependable people, leadership skilled, people of supportive mentality, people of negative mentality etc.
LinkedTV - an added value enrichment solution for AV content providersLinkedTV
Linked Television is offering a solution for audiovisual content owners to semi-automatically enrich media with links to additional information and content related to objects and topics in the program and build client applications which access this data and provide new added value services to consumers.
LinkedTV tools for Linked Media applications (LIME 2015 workshop talk)LinkedTV
A brief introduction to tools from the LinkedTV project which can be used together to build new media applications based on conceptual linking of media fragments.
LinkedTV Deliverable D4.6 Contextualisation solution and implementationLinkedTV
This deliverable presents the WP4 contextualisation final im-plementation. As contextualization has a high impact on all the other modules of WP4 (especially personalization and recom-mendation), the deliverable intends to provide a picture of the final WP4 workflow implementation.
LinkedTV Deliverable D2.6 LinkedTV Framework for Generating Video Enrichments...LinkedTV
This deliverable describes the final LinkedTV framework that provides a set of possible enrichment resources for seed video content using techniques such as text and web mining, information extraction and information retrieval technologies. The enrichment content is obtained from four type of sources: a) by crawling and indexing web sites described in a white list specified by the content partners,
b) by querying the API or SPARQL endpoint of the Europeana digital library network which is publicly exposed, c) by querying multiple social networking APIs, d) by hyperlinking to other parts of TV programs within the same collection using a Solr index. This deliverable
also describes an additional content annotation functionality, namely labelling enrichment (as well as seed) content with thematic topics, as well as the process of exposing content annotations to this module and to the filtering services of LinkedTV’s personalization workflow. We illustrate the enrichment workflow for the two main scenarios of LinkedTV which have lead to the development of the LinkedCulture and LinkedNews applications, which respectively use the TVEnricher and TVNewsEnricher enrichment services. The original title of this deliverable from the DoW was Advanced concept labelling by complementary Web mining.
LinkedTV Deliverable D1.4 Visual, text and audio information analysis for hyp...LinkedTV
Having extensively evaluated the performance of the technologies included in the first release of WP1 multimedia analysis tools, using content from the LinkedTV scenarios and by participating in international benchmarking activities, concrete decisions regarding the
appropriateness and the importance of each individual method or combination of methods were made, which, combined with an updated list of information needs for each scenario, led to a new set of analysis requirements that had to be addressed through the release of the final set of analysis techniques of WP1. To this end, coordinated efforts on three directions, including
(a) the improvement of a number of methods in terms of accuracy and time efficiency,
(b) the development of new technologies and (c) the definition of synergies between methods for obtaining new types of information via multimodal processing, resulted in the final bunch of multimedia analysis methods for video hyperlinking. Moreover, the different developed analysis modules have been integrated into a web-based infrastructure, allowing the fully automatic linking of the multitude of WP1 technologies and the overall LinkedTV platform.
LinkedTV D8.6 Market and Product Survey for LinkedTV Services and TechnologyLinkedTV
D8.6 presents the results of the market analysis for LinkedTV products and services and consists of
two parts: an overall analysis of current and future
developments in the TV and digital video market and a specific market analysis of potential LinkedTV customers and competitors. Based on the market analysis it was possible to provide a first rough estimation of the LinkedTV market potential and to position LinkedTV on the market.
This deliverable presents the LinkedTV Public Demonstrator which will be an online, publicly accessible Website collecting showcases of the key project outputs which form together our LinkedTV solution: the Editor Tool, Platform and Player, complemented by demonstrations of the provision of this solution for the content of two European broadcasters: the LinkedCulture and LinkedNews scenario demonstrators.
LinkedTV Deliverable D6.3 User Trial ResultsLinkedTV
User trials were prepared and conducted in the first quarter of 2014 in order to assess the appropriateness of the innovative functionalities of the second screen demonstrator developed in Y2 of the LinkedTV project. A sample installation of LinkedTV was set up at three different locations: at Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg (RBB), Sound & Vision (S&V), and at the University of St. Gallen (USG). The LinkedTV installation included a TV showing sample content (“main screen”) and an tablet (“second screen”) showing chapters of the program as well as semi-automaticaly acquired additional information about persons, topics and places depicted in the program on the main screen. In total 24 participants took part in the trial at all three locations (9 at RBB, 5 at S&V and 10 at USG). To assess the appropriateness of the LinkedTV features, the trial participants were provided with a “hands-on” opportunity to use the LinkedTV Application and were observed while using the installation. The participants also filled in a questionnaire at the end of the session.
LinkedTV Deliverable D5.6 Final LinkedTV End-to-End PlatformLinkedTV
This Deliverable describes the final LinkedTV End-to-End Platform, which integrates a whole workflow from video ingestion over video analysis, annotated media fragment generation, content enrichment to personalized playout by a dedicated media player.
Annotating TV programming and linking to related content on the WebLinkedTV
At the D-WERFT conference in Potsdam, November 2014, LinkedTV scientific coordinator Dr Lyndon Nixon spoke about the LinkedTV project experiences in overcoming the challenges of knowing what happens inside TV programming and using that knowledge to automatically link parts of a TV program to related content on the Web.
Authors/Presenters: Vasileios Mezaris and Benoit Huet.
Video hyperlinking is the introduction of links that originate from pieces of video material and point to other relevant content, be it video or any other form of digital content. The tutorial presents the state of the art in video hyperlinking approaches and in relevant enabling technologies, such as video analysis and multimedia indexing and retrieval. Several alternative strategies, based on text, visual and/or audio information are introduced, evaluated and discussed, providing the audience with details on what works and what doesn’t on real broadcast material.
Authors/Presenters: Vasileios Mezaris and Benoit Huet.
Video hyperlinking is the introduction of links that originate from pieces of video material and point to other relevant content, be it video or any other form of digital content. The tutorial presents the state of the art in video hyperlinking approaches and in relevant enabling technologies, such as video analysis and multimedia indexing and retrieval. Several alternative strategies, based on text, visual and/or audio information are introduced, evaluated and discussed, providing the audience with details on what works and what doesn’t on real broadcast material.
Authors/Presenters: Vasileios Mezaris and Benoit Huet.
Video hyperlinking is the introduction of links that originate from pieces of video material and point to other relevant content, be it video or any other form of digital content. The tutorial presents the state of the art in video hyperlinking approaches and in relevant enabling technologies, such as video analysis and multimedia indexing and retrieval. Several alternative strategies, based on text, visual and/or audio information are introduced, evaluated and discussed, providing the audience with details on what works and what doesn’t on real broadcast material.
Remixing Media on the Semantic Web (ISWC2014 Tutorial) Pt 2 Linked Media: An...LinkedTV
The second session looks at how using Linked Data principles for media fragment annotation publication and retrieval (Linked Media) can enable online media fragment re-use:
Introducing the Linked Media principles
Publishing Linked Media using dedicated multimedia RDF repositories
Retrieval of media resources that illustrate linked data concepts
Using the Linked Data graph to find relevant links between distinct media assets (examples with SPARQL)
Retrieval of links between annotated media to enable topical browsing (using the TVEnricher service)
Examples of Linked Media at scale: VideoLyzard and HyperTED
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
LinkedTV Deliverable 3.8 - Design guideline document for concept-based presentations
1. Deliverable 3.8 Design guideline document for concept-based
presentations
Michiel Hildebrand, Lilia Perez Romero and Lynda Hardman
31/03/2015
Work Package 3: LinkedTV Interface and Presentation Engine
LinkedTV
Television Linked To The Web
Integrated Project (IP)
FP7-ICT-2011-7. Information and Communication Technologies
Grant Agreement Number 287911