Join us for a digital scholarship coffee gathering - tea and coffee will be provided.
These will be held in the Visiting Scholars Centre, so to attend you’ll need to bring your Bodleian Card and to leave your bags in the lockers - this event is only open to University staff and students.
At this session Professor David Bainbridge (University of Waikato) will speak:
All Kinds of Everything: A Digital Library of Linked Open Data for Eurovision (*)
I will present work on a tripartite approach to audiovisual display that integrates Linked Open Data (LOD), Music Information Retrieval (MIR), and Digital Library (DL) technologies. The result is an interactive online resource for capturing, querying, and visualising metadata related to musical performances. As a case study, the approach is applied to the Eurovision Song Contest, spanning entries from the present back to the event’s inception in 1956. The content for the resulting DL is seeded through a single SPARQL query to DBpedia, to which is added voting data and musically derived features such as tempo and key—all integrated within the existing ingest workflow of the digital library software. Beyond traditional DL search and browse functions, the system includes a user-driven visualisation tool that supports further exploration of the dataset. This interactive capability is powered by the LOD-based data model established during ingest, enabling a unified and flexible framework for dynamic visual representation.
And just in case this description sounds a bit removed from the pan-European spectacle that is Eurovision, let me reassure you that in the talk I’ll be sure to show some visuals that give you pause for thought—and play a quirky or kitsch song or two along the way!
(*) All Kinds of Everything was the winning entry at Eurovision 1970, sung by Dana representing Ireland. It pleasingly evokes the affordances of Linked Data to bridge perspectives and datasets.
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