Enriching Electronic Programming Guides with Web Data

Electronic Programming Guide (EPG) systems are software applications running on set-top boxes providing broadcast programming and scheduling information to users of TV services. Although Internet users and enterprises continuously generate massive amounts of web data, a fragment of which is related to TV programs, current EPG systems do not take advantage of this information to enrich the data they provide to users. Addressing this untapped opportunity, we have developed a prototype that gathers web data from several Internet sources, in a variety of formats, and integrates it with the information provided by EPG systems to users. We describe our prototype, evaluate the enrichments achieved, and present our results and directions for future work.