The CUbRIK approach
• European Community's Seventh Framework Program FP7-ICT
• 15 European partners• Multimedia search
processing: Puttinghumans in the loop
• Combination of human and machine computation
The CUbRIK approach: four pillars
Researcher Requirements
Entity Repository
Efficient Indexation Process
Toolchain for visualization and analysis
Efficient indexation
Raw contentConflict
(e.g., “Image contains ‘Romano Prodi’ ”Confidence = low)?
Conflict store Conflict manager
Conflict resolution task store
Conflict resolution task: conflict,
required skill, priority, ..
CUbRIK app for Conflict resolution
Game Q&ACrowdtask
Challenges
– Modeling, detection and verification of identities/places/events in time– Modeling, detection and analysis of relationships (e.g. co-occurrences)– Copyright aware crawling and storage– Verification of provenance and license
information– Create a community
..leads to questions on– Source criticism, heuristics,
interpretation– Transparency and Trust
Discursive interface
• No one truth in history but interpretation, context and discussion
– Therefore need to represent
ambivalence, contradictions and
discussion
– Capacity to have users
easily add and fix image identification
as part of a community, not curator-
driven.
EIBIO: European Integration Biographies
• Persistent and actionable identifier
• Aggregation of structured information
• Support for multiple languages and
sources
Sustainability
• Review of the functionality
• Development of an open-source version
• Cooperation with other projects
• Extension to include other types of sources (text documents, videos,
etc.)
• Application to other domains