EventMedia: a LOD dataset of events illustrated with media

An ever increasing amount of event-centric generated knowledge is spread over multiple social services, either materialized as calendar of past and upcoming events or illustrated by cross-media items. This opens an opportunity to create an infrastructure unifying event-centered information derived from event directories, media platforms and social networks using the RDF data model. EventMedia aims at creating such an infrastructure that requires seamless aggregation and integration of disparate data sources, some of which overlap in their coverage. In this paper, we present the EventMedia knowledge base composed of events descriptions together with media descriptions associated with these events and interlinked with the larger Linked Open Data cloud.We describe how the data has been extracted, converted, interlinked and published following the best practices of the Semantic Web community.