Connected Media Experiences: interactive video using Linked Data on the Web

This paper presents a set of tools and an extended framework with API for enabling the dynamic enrichment of online video with Web content via Linked Data. As audiovisual media is increasingly transmitted online, new services deriving added value from such material can be imagined. For example, combining it with other material elsewhere on the Web which is related to it or enhances it in a meaningful way, to the benefit of the owner of the original content, the providers of the content enhancing it and the end consumer who can access and interact with these new services. Since the services are built around providing new experiences through connecting different related media together, we consider such services to be Connected Media Experiences (ConnectME). This paper presents the ConnectME approach, which is to annotate video with Linked Data concepts, dynamically bind annotations to related Web content and then provide a flexibly enriched video playout. Using Linked Data allows us to decouple video annotations from hardcoded enrichments, meaning a video can be annotated once but its enrichment is always up to date.