Date

2011-03-11

Lecturer

Edmundo Tovar (UPM) and Óscar M Bonastre (UMH, GICAC-UPM)

Summary

The growing amount of data available on the social and semantic Webs, APIs to access and manipulate that data, and trends towards common identifiers and metadata schema will allow new opportunities for future television. Thus, TV and Social Web are merging and they are moving to an interesting direction. 

The talk will show the new possibilities inherent in Semantic Web, Social Web and Linked Data applied to learning frameworks, among others. Next, the talk will explore new challenges of those learning frameworks to promote future, new and innovative educational services using semantic TV.

Slides

Videos

Seminario eMadrid sobre "Web semántica" - Web Semántica & TV Social from eMadrid net on Vimeo.

Author biographies

Edmundo Tovar (UPM)

Edmundo Tovar, Computer Engineering educator, has a Ph. D. (1994) and a Bachelor’s degree (1986) in Computer Engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). He is Certified Software Development Professional (CSDP) from the IEEE Computer Society. He is Associate Dean for Quality and Strategic Planning in the Computing School of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. From this last position he is in charge of the training for academic staff, the introduction of innovative solutions including new pedagogies; new approaches that improve student learning of technical skills and cultural skills, improved methods of blended learning and others. He works in the open educational resources area. Leader of an Innovation Group in Education in the UPM. He is Executive Director of OCW UPM Office and member elected of the Board of Directors of the OpenCourseWare Consortium. Author of many papers in Engineering Education, he is member of the Steering Committee of and cochair for Europe of Frontiers Education Conference (FIE) and member of IEEE RITA Editorial Committee. He is IEEE Senior Member, Past Chairman of the Spanish Chapter and, as member of the Administrative Committee of the IEEE Education Society, he is currently chair of the Distinguished Lectures Program for the IEEE Education Society. 

Oscar M Bonastre ((UMH, GICAC-UPM)

Óscar M Bonastre holds a Ph.D in Telecommunications (Technical University of Valencia, Spain) and is Engineer in Computer Science (University of Alicante, Spain). He is member of research group GICAC (Grupo de Innovación en la Gestión de Calidad de Centros Universitarios) of UPM. Also, he is associate professor at University Miguel Hernandez where he teaches Data Bases and Advanced Distributed Systems. He is IEEE Senior Member, Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Education, member of IEEE Board Directors (Education Society, Spain section) and member of educational resources committee of same IEEE chapter. His research interests are Semantic Web, Open Educational Resources, Linked Data, Social Networks and Multimedia Content Distribution through IP video and Interactive Television. Dr. Bonastre promotes IPTV technologies and interactive multimedia content distribution as chair of International Workshop on IPTV Technologies and Multidisciplinary Applications (editions 2009 to 2011) and guest editor of the scientific journals IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Image Communication and Multimedia Tools and Applications.