Media content linking, semantic annotation and syndication in social enabled, multiscreen environments

Today's generation of Internet-connected devices has changed the way users are interacting with media, exchanging their role from passive and unidirectional to proactive and interactive. Under this new role, users are able to comment or rate a TV show and search for information regarding characters, facts, multimedia content or any other related material. This work describes a new approach on the description of media content assets focusing on the content and information linking aspects. In addition, it presents a novel media content enrichment and management framework, which uses the aforementioned media description approach to address the requirements of the modern, social and semantically enabled content production and delivery environments. The proposed solution exploits the latest technical and technological advancements for semantic annotation, content linking and customisation in the frame of a platform that realises the effective, personalised and social-aware content syndication for first and second screen devices.