The growing content in online media libraries results in an increasing challenge for editors to curate their information and make it visible to their users. As a result, the users are confronted with the great amount of content, unable to nd the information they are really interested in. The Smart Media Navigator (SMN) aims to analyze a platform's entire content, enrich it with Linked Data content, and present it to the user in an innovative user interface with the help of semantic web technologies. The SMN enables the user to dynamically explore and navigate media library content.
The Smart Media Navigator (SMN) is an online recommendation system based on Linked Open Data. The main target groups for the SMN are broadcasting companies with online media libraries, archives with multimedia content, or video-on-demand platforms. The SMN aims to improve the user's and author's experience while curating and navigating in blogs, multimedia platforms, and archives. The rst showcase is the yovisto blog1, which currently contains more than 800 daily articles consisting of texts, images, and videos. The SMN is integrated as a wordpress plugin. It analyzes and interlinks the platform's content based on semantic relationships among its contents. Its information is then used to automatically link articles with relevant entities from DBpedia. Thus, further articles on related topics, persons, locations or events are recommended to the user. A relation browser is implemented to visualize the relevant relationships, as depicted in g. 1. Editors can take advantage of an integrated annotation tool, which helps to map entities with DBpedia as they write and thus, helps to reduce their workload. The additional information retrieved from DBpedia in combination with the relation browser will not substitute but improve traditionally arranged online multimedia libraries without altering their actual content. It increases the existing content's value and motivates the platform users to stay in the site.
A demonstration of SMN will be given at the conference. The SMN is a project supported by the MIZ Potsdam-Babelsberg2, Germany, an institute funded by public-service broadcasters to support innovation in media. The project will be nished by February 2015.