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Multimedia Annotation on the Semantic Web (MM)
STATUS
COORDINATORS
MEMBERS
- Raphaël Troncy, CWI
- Vassilis Tzouvaras, IVML
- Nikolaos Simou, IVML
- Christian Halaschek-Wiener, UMD
- Jane Hunter, DSTC - invited expert
- John Smith, IBM - to be confirmed
- Jeremy Carroll, HP
DELIVERABLES
Working Drafts
Editor's Drafts
- Image annotation on the Semantic Web.
This draft has been taken over by the MMSEM XG,
see the published version.
- Semantic Web Image Annotation Interoperability.
This draft has been taken over by the MMSEM XG,
see the document
Multimedia Annotation Interoperability Framework.
Other
OBJECTIVES
- Investigate potential approaches for image annotation strategies that
combine and/or integrate the SemWeb languages approach (RDF, OWL, SPARQL,
Rule Languages, …) with the DDL/XMLSchema-based approach of
MPEG-7, Dublin Core etc in an interoperable way.
- Develop best practice guidelines for image annotators that want to
export their annotations on the Semantic Web and/or import SemWeb data
into their image annotation tools.
- Collect currently used vocabularies for multimedia annotations (like
Dublin Core, VRA, …)
- Provide use cases with examples of multimedia annotations using the
above vocabularies
- Investigate existing tools and other formats (ID3, EXIF, XMP, etc)
- Align with other Task Forces of the BPWG and W3C activities (Voice
browser activities, synchronised multimedia etc)
- Provide readily applicable mapping tools (using XSLT, SPARQL,
transformation rules, mappings etc)
APPROACH
- Compare issues discussed and approaches suggested in literature,
including those in the bibliography. Collect existing approaches for
MPEG-7 (and other multimedia standards) and Semantic Web
interoperability.
- Investigate current and upcoming European projects (aceMedia, Muscle,
K-Space, …), US and Australian projects, ontology libraries, demos
etc, for vocabularies of multimedia annotations, use cases, existing
tools etc.
- Define the appropriate use cases, including (but not limited to) the
areas of e-culture, medicine, personal and professional audiovisual
archiving and management.
- Using the above framework and focusing on the interoperability issues,
try to define best practices and guidelines for multimedia annotators
exporting their result in the SW.
- Using the above guidelines, try to develop transformation tools from
multimedia annotations to SemWeb languages.
SCOPE
- In scope: make the SemWeb, ISO and other multimedia technologies
interoperable.
- Out of scope: development of new standards.
DELIVERABLES
Review instruction:
-
Image annotation on the Semantic Web.
This is the main document that provides use cases and
general discussion about Semantic Web vocabularies and
tools. This should become a stable document suitable to be
published as a public Working Draft.
Related to the main document are two Working Group pages,
vocabularies and
tools and ressources,
that are intended as evolving documents that will be
regulary updated to catch up with new developments. CWI is
willing to commit resources to make sure these documents
will be maintained for the next 4 years.
- Semantic Web Image Annotation Interoperability.
Feasibility report on the interoperability between SW and
image annotation standards (including patent and copyright
issues) and best practices for SW interoperable image
annotations including possible mapping tools. (Not ready for
review yet).
TARGET AUDIENCE & USE CASES
- Professionals (museums, libraries, audiovisual archives, media
production and broadcast industry, image and video banks) and
non-professional (end-users) multimedia annotators.
- Institutions and organizations with research and standardization
activities in the area of multimedia.
DEPENDENCIES
- Other TFs: The approaches/guidelines of this TF need to be aligned with
the WordNet, Applications and Demos TFs.
- Other W3C groups: activities on accessibility, voice browser
activities, synchronised multimedia group.
IMPORTANT NOTE
If the charter of the SWBPD WG is renewed through into 2006, then the TF
hopes to continue with an updated description that mainly extends the above
work into video formats.
RELEVANT LITERATURE/REQUIRED READING
Stamou, G., and S. Kollias eds, “Multimedia Content and the
Semantic Web: Methods, Standards and Tools”, John Wiley & Sons
Ltd, 2005.
Jane Hunter,"Adding
Multimedia to the Semantic Web --- Building an MPEG-7 Ontology". In:
International Semantic Web Working Symposium (SWWS) Stanford University,
California, USA July 30 - August 1, 2001.
Raphael Troncy, "Integrating
Structure and Semantics into Audio-visual Documents". In: The Semantic
Web - ISWC 2003 Sanibel Island, Florida, USA pp. 566 - 581 Springer-Verlag
Heidelberg, October 20-23, 2003.
Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Frank Nack, and Lynda Hardman, "That Obscure
Object of Desire: Multimedia Metadata on the Web (Part I)", In: IEEE
Multimedia 11(4), pp. 38-48 October -- December 2004
Frank Nack, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, and Lynda Hardman, "That Obscure
Object of Desire: Multimedia Metadata on the Web (Part II)", In: IEEE
Multimedia 12(1), pp. 54-63 January -- March 2005
Created 2005-09-12 from mail
of Giorgos Stamou of 2005-07-27
Last updated $Date: 2007/08/14 14:07:59 $ by $Author: rtroncy $