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After visiting the DeDeCo convention in 2022, we were last year again asked by the organizers if we could present an update on the project. Given that our project relies on data from online enthusiast websites, we want to share our results with the larger Manga/Anime fan community and were happy to have such an opportunity again. Two members of the project team travelled to Dresden in February to attend DeDeCo 2025.
The Japanese Visual Media Graph project is funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG). The first grant was for a period of 36 months and the funding program allows for a second grant to continue the project.
We applied for the continuation grant in 2022 and in early June 2023, we received the notice of approval. The reviewers lauded the project idea and the results of the first project phase.
Continue reading “Project funding is extended by another 36 months”Our project has so far transformed data from multiple online enthusiast communities as well as other data-centric projects into the RDF data format and it is now available online as Linked Open Data. The next step is matching the corresponding entities in each source and merge the properties that each source provides.
Continue readingThe project has reached an important milestone. The collected data from six sources is available in RDF and can be viewed on the mediagraph.link domain. Currently, only the transformed original data is available, as we are still working to complete the next step in the data integration process.
We would like to use this opportunity to thank all the enthusiast communities who make data available under a free license on the web and specifically the communities who kindly supported the project by attending our initial workshop, and exchanged ideas on data in the Japanese visual media domain with us. We are especially grateful to the communities who have agreed to offer us a specific open licence (detailed information is available here) for the parts of their data that have been integrated into our database.
Continue reading “Milestone: Public access to the knowledge graph”We will be introducing our latest results at the following upcoming conferences and workshops. If you are interested in talking with a team member about our project, please feel free to contact us.
Our project will present a short paper titled “The Benefits of RDF and External Ontologies for Heterogeneous Data: A case study using the Japanese Visual Media Graph” at the 16th International Symposium for Information Science.
Due to Covid-19, it is held as a virtual conference, with free registration.
UPDATE 2020. 03. 14.: Due to the situation regarding COVID-19 both of our upcoming conference appearances have been postponed. The Mechademia Conference will take place next year, and the Building Bridges Symposium will be held on an as yet undecided future date.
We will be introducing our first results at the following upcoming conferences and workshops. If you are interested in talking with a team member about our project, please feel free to contact us.
Our project will be present at the MAGIC workshop in conjunction with the ICADL2019 conference in Kuala Lumpur.
At MAGIC- Information Commons for Manga, Anime and video Games we wish to discuss issues for creating and sharing information about MAG contents and resources. A primary topic is metadata for MAG. Metadata covers broad range of information – from descriptions about a content to a vocabulary to organize MAG resources, and from metadata creation to search and access.
A poster presentation was given at the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative annual conference held from Sep. 23rd-26th, 2019 in Seoul, Korea.
Preprint of the poster paper:
The July workshop we discussed in our last post has now concluded, and we’re pleased to report that the event was quite successful! After introducing our own JVMG project, and the diggr project from Leipzig University, several of the invited community members gave presentations about their own sites and experiences. Over the two days of the conference, a lot of insightful discussions took place, and we think both the project and community members were able to both contribute and receive some information that will be helpful, either to their research projects or their community efforts.
Regarding the JVMG project, we received a lot of useful feedback from the invited community members, which will be important in allowing us to clarify how we communicate our project with other sites and interested parties in the future. In addition, all participants seemed interested in working with us on the project in various ways. In the near future, this will take the form of some data sharing agreements made between our project and various fan communities, allowing us to begin the project in earnest by collecting and analyzing a significant amount of aggregated, community-created data.
Finally, a big thanks to all of the community representatives from the Anime Characters Database, AnimeClick.it, Animexx, IGDB, Oregami, Stifftung Digitale Spielekultur, VNDB, and Wikidata’s Video Games Task Force for taking the time to come meet with us, and with the Leipzig members for hosting the workshop. This was an important initial milestone for us, and community involvement is vital to the foundation of our project, so we’re thankful for all of the interest and cooperation we received. We’ll be sure to update this blog as the project continues, so stay tuned!
All photos from Jean-Frédéric, Wikimedia.