Experiencing Events through User-Generated Media

Large numbers of websites contain (human-readable) infor- mation about scheduled events, of which some may display media cap- tured at these events. This information is, however, often incomplete and always locked into the sites. This prevents users from creating overviews of media associated with an event from multiple websites. We carried out exploratory user studies with potential end-users to guide the design of a web-based environment for supporting event-based services. Based on our results, our goal is to provide support for exploring and selecting events and associated media, and for discovering meaningful, surprising or entertaining connections between events, media and participants by consuming linked data. We assembled a large collection of event and as- sociated media descriptions, which we inter