I had great discussions in Barcelona. BMAT and the UPF/MTG group were so nice to give me feedback on my new proposal about “searching the goosebump factor in music”. If you want to you can download the slides of my presentation here.
On tuesday Martin Kaltenbrunner allowed me to lay my greedy hands on the ReacTable. Yes, you name it: the thing which is used by Björk on her current tour! (see the video)
Its all about goosebumps!
I was strolling around in Barcelona and before going to the beach I checked emails and blogs at the hotel -thank god its barcelona, i.e. FREE wifi-. Anyway read this excellent posting about the future of cyberspace which I found at turbulence.org.
(image: airsideshop.com)
On Sunday I leave for Barcelona. I have a talk at the UPF/MTG. The Music Technology Group(MTG) is the largest group of researchers working on the common theme of music technology in diverse facets. Promising examples of their work include the foafing-the-music music recommender and the famous Reactable. And they founded BMAT, a spinoff company dealing with music and audio technologies. I am really looking forward to meet the guys!
PS: Here is the abstract of my talk (just in case you want to join 
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Abstract
Music Information Retrieval (MIR) and Web 2.0 have finally come together. Promising startups and spinoffs from academia are offering new and exciting services around the endless search for music and like-minded fellows. These activities are currently coined under the term Music 2.0 and based on mixtures of content-based analysis, community-based efforts, collaborative filtering and some snippets of semantic web techniques.
We have been part of such activities in the recent past and think about re-shaping our research towards trends such as Digital Identity and Pervasive Computing and in which ways this could affect our research into highly personalized music recommenders.
On behalf of the Knowledge Management Department and the competence centers CCSW and C4, we invite you to the following talk by Andreas Hotho, Universität Kassel:
DATE: Friday, June 29th, 2007
TIME: 15:00 - about 16:15
ROOM: 2.15, DFKI Kaiserslautern, Trippstadter Straße 122
TITLE:
Data Mining in Social Bookmarking Tools
ABSTRACT:
Social bookmark tools are rapidly emerging on the Web. In such systems, users are setting up lightweight conceptual structures called folksonomies. The reason for their immediate success is the fact that no specific skills are needed for participating and direct benefits are provided. BibSonomy is a folksonomy system developed and maintained at the university of Kassel. It gives you the opportunity to share not only bookmarks, but also publications in an integrated way. BibSonomy offers a large variety of functionalities which researchers often need in their daily work and acts as a playground for our research in folksonomies.
Andreas will start the talk with a short demonstration of the BibSonomy system and present then several approach to analyze folksonomies.
- Starting from the properties of the system we derive a formal folksonomy model and analyze the underlying graph structure along two real world datasets.
- As a next step we try to extract tag relations and to identify user communities. By apply association rule mining on an adapted graph structure we are able to identify relations between tags and resources. While the tag relations can be used to structure the tag cloud of a user, relations between resources are the basis for identifying communities within such systems. To come up with a topic description of the communities we compute labels by applying our FolkRank algorithm which takes advantage of the underlying hypergraph structure. In this way also the core users are identified.
- The last topic of the talk investigates the problem of tag recommendations. FolkRank is used again to recommend personalized tags for a new resource. Experimental results on three real world datasets show that FolkRank is able to outperform collaborative filtering approaches by 10%.
SPEAKER:
Andreas Hotho
http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/hotho
hotho@cs.uni-kassel.de
Universität Kassel
Fachgebiet Wissensverarbeitung
If you want to meet with the speaker (who will be in KL the whole day), please contact Michael Sintek.
Andreas Dengel (head of Knowledge Management Department)
Michael Sintek and Paul Buitelaar (co-heads of CCSW)
Stephan Baumann (head of C4)
(Image via Hactivist.de flickr pool)
The Re:publica guys released the videos of the talks and panel. The session about Digital Identity including my technical part and the part of Ralf Bendrath about political implications:
Video, audio, etc. via netzpolitik.org.
I am supervisor of a -hopefully- damn smart diploma thesis: Virtual Identity in the Mediated Age.
I have the feeling that I was very lucky to select one of the most suited geeks for this job: Tobias. So far he did everything right! RubyOnRails, Agile Development, and a lot of blogging.
Check his links and stay tuned:
Tobias.
Virtual Identity Blog.
Essential Tools, Stuff and Hacks: Virtual Identity.