Monthly Archives: February 2011

More about the User Portal and the integration

Posted on February 25, 2025 by

Presenting the User Portal idea to the other partners generated different reactions that in general had been quite positive. While on one side it seemed a good idea to have an object like this in order to centralise the management … Continue reading →

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Privacy revisited

Posted on February 22, 2025 by

Early on in the NoTube project we asked how we address the challenge that people want personalisation without any compromise to their privacy. We posed this question in the context of the NoTube Beancounter, a service for aggregating and analysing … Continue reading →

Posted in Privacy, Recommendations, Social TV | 4 Comments

SmartLink goes ESWC2011

Posted on February 16, 2025 by

Part of the Open University’s work on service integration in NoTube is an RDF-based services annotation and tracking environment dubbed “SmartLink” which will be presented at this years Extended Semantic Web Conference in Crete. SmartLink is short for “SeMantic Annotation … Continue reading →

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Linking Wikipedia and BBC programmes

Posted on February 15, 2025 by

In the last few weeks I’ve been putting together a dataset for NoTube partners (and others) to use, based on the BBC /programmes data but in a downloadable chunk. We are hoping that this will be useful dataset for us … Continue reading →

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Second W3C Web and TV Workshop

Posted on February 10, 2025 by

Yesterday, Dan Brickley presented a paper written by Dan, me, and Vicky from NoTube and Mo McRoberts from Project Baird at the Second W3C Workshop on TV and the Web. The workshop was about various aspects of TV and the … Continue reading →

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Loudness Harmonisation in NoTube

Posted on February 9, 2025 by

In this NoTube blog post we will give you an update of how we have lately improved the loudness normalisation following the results of the user evaluation we made in November 2010. But first, let’s recap… The Problem The problem … Continue reading →

Posted in Audio, Loudness, Metadata, News, Service, User Experience | 2 Comments

On serendipity

Posted on February 4, 2025 by

One of our more recent NoTube demos was inspired by an XKCD cartoon which prompted us to ask: can we make a large video collection interesting enough so that people keep browsing rather than give up? As we’ve said before, … Continue reading →

Posted in Demos, Linked Data, Recommendations, Thinking Out Loud, User Experience | 5 Comments