NoTube Highlights
These are some of the demonstrators and services made within the NoTube project. More
information is on the blog.
Demonstrators
Voting and graphing application
Illustrates real-time updates on voting for whodunnit in 'The Killing' - work with Mo McRoberts.
The Killing
TEA: TV Extras Authoring
Illustrates collaborative drag and drop annotation of html5 video
TEA
Papers and selected blog posts
APIs and URLs for Social TV by Dan Brickley (Vrije Universiteit), Libby Miller and Vicky Buser (BBC), Mo Mcroberts (Project Baird)
A paper from 2011 arguing: (a) Social networks are where the integration of Web and TV is already happening (b) Silos are being created (c) Audiences, Manufacturers, Developers, Programme Makers and Content Owners all Lose (d) Using metadata appropriately, creating APIs to TV and using URLs as unique identifiers for programmes can solve some of these problems.
Services and Data
Very basic (regex) entity recognition
Looks for capitalised phrases in programme descriptions and then looks up the result on DBPedia
Winter Olympics Demonstrator
N-Screen APIs
Various APIs including random, related and search for iPlayer, Redux (subset) and TED (subset)
N-Screen APIs
On Now
What's on now on BBC channels
On Now
