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Unifying and targeting cultural activities via events modelling and profiling

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Today, people have only limited, valuable spare time at their hands which they want to fill in as good as possible according to their interests. At the same time, cultural institutions are trying to attract interested communities to their carefully planned cultural programs. To distribute these cultural events to the right people, we developed a framework that will aggregate, enrich, recommend and distribute these events as targeted as possible. The aggregated events are published as Linked Open Data using an RDF/OWL representation of the EventsML-G2 standard. These event items are categorised and enriched via smart indexing and linked open datasets available on the Web of data. For recommending the events to the end-user, a global profile of the end-user is automatically constructed by aggregating his profile information from all user communities the user trusts and is registered to. This way, the recommendations take profile information into account from different communities, which has a detrimental effect on the recommendations. As such, the ultimate goal is to provide an open, user-friendly recommendation platform that harnesses the end-user with a tool to access useful event information that goes beyond basic information retrieval. At the same time, we provide the (inter)national cultural community with standardised mechanisms to describe/distribute event and profile information.

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  5. http://www.toerismevlaanderen.be

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  8. http://www.audioscrobbler.net

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  10. http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/

  11. http://metadata.net/harmony/ABC/ABC.owl

  12. http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/ont/dul/DUL.owl

  13. http://www.iptc.org

  14. http://www.iptc.org/cms/site/index.html?channel=CH0088

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  16. http://cv.iptc.org/newscodes/status1/

  17. http://cv.iptc.org/newscodes/priority/

  18. http://cv.iptc.org/newscodes/eventoccurstatus/

  19. http://multimedialab.elis.ugent.be/ontologies/EventsML-G2/v1.0/EventsML.owl

  20. http://cv.iptc.org/newscodes/pubstatusg2/

  21. http://cv.iptc.org/newscodes/cinature/

  22. http://cv.iptc.org/newscodes/cpnature/

  23. http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#

  24. http://cv.iptc.org/newscodes/eventcontactinforole/

  25. http://cv.iptc.org/newscodes/languagerole/

  26. http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/

  27. http://opengroup.org/projects/soa/

  28. https://open-esb.dev.java.net/

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  31. RSS: Really Simple Syndication, also see http://www.rss-specifications.com/

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  40. http://www.myspace.com

  41. http://www.twitter.com

  42. http://www.linkedin.com

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  44. http://www.facebook.com

  45. http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Events.rsvp

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Acknowledgements

The research activities that have been described in this paper were funded by Ghent University, K.U. Leuven, VRT-medialab, Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology (IBBT) through the CUPID-project (50% co-funded by industrial partners), the Institute for the Promotion of Innovation by Science and Technology in Flanders (IWT), the Fund for Scientific Research-Flanders (FWO-Flanders), and the European Union.

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  1. ELIS – Multimedia Lab, Ghent University – IBBT, 9050, Ghent, Belgium

    Sam Coppens, Erik Mannens, Davy Van Deursen & Rik Van de Walle

  2. INTEC – WiCa, Ghent University – IBBT, 9050, Ghent, Belgium

    Toon De Pessemier

  3. Distrinet, K.U. Leuven – IBBT, 3001, Leuven, Belgium

    Kristof Geebelen

  4. VRT-medialab, VRT, 1043, Brussels, Belgium

    Hendrik Dacquin

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Coppens, S., Mannens, E., De Pessemier, T. et al. Unifying and targeting cultural activities via events modelling and profiling. Multimed Tools Appl 57, 199–236 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-011-0757-6

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