Study on Program Information Database as Linked Open Data

Abstract

With the evolution of the global Internet, it has become increasingly common for companies to automatically exchange various data among themselves. Moreover, content providers, such as broadcasting stations, are being required to change their content-serving strategy so that the content can reach awaiting viewers via various external services. To address this strategy change, we propose in this paper program-related information as machine-readable web data that can be used in external services. We report on the construction of the program information database using the linked open data (LOD) technique recommended by the World Wide Web Consortium. Based on experimental results, we determine that services employing a variety of program information can be realized by representing knowledge about the content as LOD data.