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• Nowadays, users of television is provided variety
of contents a day by IPTV provider
– A big challenge : how to manage the contents in order that users can
easily choose the contents
• A web-based IPTV content syndication
– Provide personalized services through the syndication process on
various types of content using web technologies.

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• What is syndication?
– Syndication : “act of process of syndicating”
– Syndicating : to publish simultaneously, or supply for simultaneous
publication, in a number of newspapers or others periodicals in
different places.

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1. Syndication concept can be applied in IPTV service as well
2. IPTV also publishes the same content simultaneously on multiple user’s screen
Why used syndication concept?

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• Content syndicator is marked as an agent that interconnect between
content providers and users.
• Content providers provide contents and get revenue for content
distribution, while users receive customized content and pay money
for services.
• Content syndication is the controlled placement of the same content on
multiple partnering destinations in order to provide benefits to content
creators.

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• User metadata, service metadata as well as content meta data are used in the
syndication process for IPTV services.
• The syndicator for IPTV services perform:
– Content metadata aggregation
– Collecting and transforming of metadata
– Filtering and packaging functionalities using 3 types of metadata to an IPTV user.
• User receives personalized content guide and consumes IPTV contents
according to user metadata including audience measurement data.

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• User metadata and community metadata can influence the accuracy of the
system
• In their experiment results, the impact of user meta data is significant
when users and social community have similarity and familiarity on
their preferences
• They proposed the web-based content syndication system for personalized
content guide that enables syndication packaging on all categories of
contents according to metadata.