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*                         Call for Participation                    *
*                    Semantic Media @ BBC  workshop                 *
*              6 February 2013 -- BBC Centre House (London)         *
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On behalf of the Semantic Media organizing team, we would like to invite 
you to the 'Semantic Media @ BBC' workshop being held at the BBC Centre 
House (56 Wood Lane, London W12 7SB) on 6 February 2013.


About the Semantic Media Network Project
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The Semantic Media Network project addresses the challenge of time-based 
navigation in large collections of media documents. The project focuses 
on investigating new ways to empower users to find relevant content and 
exploring how industry and universities can work together in this field. 
In particular, one of the project's central ideas is that (highly 
sophisticated) annotation should occur within the production process, so 
that not only consumers benefit from the introduction of new search, 
browsing, and recommendation technologies but also the producers of 
content (composers, musicians, script-writers, directors, actors). 
Furthermore, annotating content as early as possible allows for 
integrating knowledge of the production workflow, which leads not only 
to simplified and hence more robust automatic procedures but also to 
more detailed metadata and richer user interfaces. Additionally, 
managing and exposing this metadata using modern semantic web and linked 
data technology allows for uniting various sources of information which 
enables users to more effectively identify relevant content and thus 
helps to widen the consumer's increasingly narrow bands of media experience.

For more information and a list of partner institutions, please visit 
our website http://semanticmedia.org.uk

About the workshop
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A major goal of the Semantic Media project is to establish an open 
network uniting industrial and academic research efforts related to the 
development of novel tools and standards for organizing and navigating 
in digital media. To this end, project meetings bring industrialists 
together with theoretical and applied researchers, to foster 
relationships, and encourage working together to find solutions to 
science and technology problems that are relevant to digital media.

Goals for the 'Semantic Media @ BBC' workshop include:
1) To demonstrate the work of BBC R&D in areas related to semantics in
    digital media, and to identify tasks on which the BBC could
    collaborate with academic researchers
2) To present datasets that the BBC has to offer to external
    researchers.
3) To involve the BBC production and archive departments
     - to illustrate how the production and archival process works
       within a large scale media corporation
     - to gather ideas for new annotation and metadata technology to be
       developed within Semantic Media projects (or in full-scale
       follow-up projects)
     - to identify how people involved in the archival and production
       process could actually benefit from new technology and how novel
       computational methods could be integrated into existing workflows
       in such a way that they would be accepted as new and useful tools.

Detailed and up-to-date information on the programme will be available 
on our website:
http://semanticmedia.org.uk/?q=semantic_media_at_bbc_2013.


Funding for Mini-Projects
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To support interesting collaboration opportunities between universities 
(and industry partners), the semantic media project is funding 
mini-projects resulting from project meetings and sandpits. We hope that 
these mini-projects will serve as important stepping stones towards 
full-scale collaborative national and European project proposals. See 
also http://semanticmedia.org.uk/?q=miniprojects.

Venue
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The 'Semantic Media @ BBC' workshop will take place as a half-day event 
at the BBC Centre House in 56 Wood Lane, London W12 7SB on 6 February 
2013, see also here: http://goo.gl/maps/8QvG6

Website and Registration
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For more information, visit our website http://semanticmedia.org.uk. 
Please note that while attendance is free of charge, we kindly ask you, 
for organizational purposes, to register as early as possible if you 
intend to come. Furthermore, it will be necessary to prepare security 
passes and hence registration is mandatory.


-- 
Dr. Sebastian Ewert
PD Research Assistant
Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London
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Phone: +44 207 882 8287