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About the Multimedia Semantics XG

News

2007-08-16: The XG is now closed.
2007-08-16: The group has published the Image annotation on the Semantic Web Incubator Group Report, see the annoucement.
2007-07-25: The group has published the Multimedia Vocabularies on the Semantic Web Incubator Group Report, see the annoucement.
2007-06-14: Raphaël Troncy presented the XG activity during the Project Review Meeting.
2007-05-10: The Panel The role of multimedia metadata standards in a (Semantic) Web 3.0 took place during the WWW 2007 conference.
2007-05-08: Raphaël Troncy presented the XG activity during the W3C Advisory Committee Meeting.
2007-02-12: The Panel submitted by Susanne Boll and Raphaël Troncy on behalf of the XG to the WWW 2007 conference, entitled The role of multimedia metadata standards in a (Semantic) Web 3.0 has been accepted!
2007-02-09: Raphaël Troncy and Jeff Z. Pan presented the XG activity to the Semantic Web Coordination Group.
2006-12-09: The XG had his second face-to-face meeting on Friday 8th and Saturday 10th of December. Minutes and work done during this face to face are available in the Meetings.
2006-11-29: Jeff Z. Pan presented the Incubator Group during the VIE Multimedia Standards Workshop in the 2nd Institution of Engineering and Technology Multimedia Conference 2006.
2006-11-10: All of the Top 3 winners of the Semantic Web Challenge at ISWC 2006 are members from the Multimedia Semantic Incubator Group!
Many congratulations to:
1. Jacco van Ossenbruggen: MultimediaN E-Culture demonstrator
2. Oscar Celma: Foafing the Music: Bridging the semantic gap in music recommendation
3. Giovanni Tummarello: DBin: Enabling Semantic Web communities
as well as their colleagues!
2006-09-15: The XG has released a new version of the Image Annotation on the Semantic Web. This document is under review and aims to be the first XG Report of this group.
2006-09-14: Jeff Z. Pan presented the Incubator Group during the ICANN 2006 Conference.
2006-07-18: The XG has now a WIKI ! See the Wiki Pages.
2006-07-12: The XG had his first official face-to-face meeting on Monday 10th and Tuesday 11th of July. Minutes and work done during this face to face are available in the Meetings.
2006-06-08: The XG has decided to have its bi-weekly teleconferences on Thursdays, between 17:00 and 18:00 UTC (winter time). These teleconferences are intended to be only for Incubator Group members and other invited parties. See the forthcoming meetings.
2006-05-22: The XG will have an informal face-to-face kick-off meeting, Monday 22nd of May, in Edinburgh during the WWW Conference. More precisely, we invite all interested participants to join the round table discussion at the end of the SWAMM Workshop day, from 16:00 to 17:30 and to join the dinner afterwards.
2006-05-02: The SWBPD WG's Multimedia Task Force is finishing work on their editor's draft on Image Annotation. This is work done in another group, but all members of this XG are invited to provide comments
2006-04-25: Multimedia Semantics XG launched (Call for Participation, Member-only)

Talks

2007-06-14: Raphaël Troncy presented the XG activity durng the Project Review Meeting. See the minutes of the telecon.
2007-05-10: Raphaël Troncy, on behalf of the XG, has moderated the panel The role of multimedia metadata standards in a (Semantic) Web 3.0 during the WWW 2007 conference. Slides from the panelists are available on a slide sharing site, annotated with the tags www2007 and multimediasemanticspanel.
2007-05-08: Raphaël Troncy presented the XG activity to the W3C Advisory Committee Meeting.
2007-02-09: Raphaël Troncy and Jeff Z. Pan presented the XG activity to the Semantic Web Coordination Group. See the minutes of the telecon (members only).
2006-11-29: Jeff Z. Pan presented the Incubator Group during the VIE Multimedia Standards Workshop in the 2nd Institution of Engineering and Technology Multimedia Conference 2006.
2006-09-14: Jeff Z. Pan presented the Multimedia Semantics XG during the ICANN 2006 Conference.

Deliverables

XG Reports Published:

Image Annotation on the Semantic Web. (Permalink)
This document provides use cases and general discussion about Semantic Web vocabularies and tools, and updates the previous Working Draft published by the Multimedia Annotation on the Semantic Web Task Force of the W3C Semantic Web Best Practices & Deployment Working Group.
Multimedia Vocabularies on the Semantic Web. (Permalink)
This document gives an overview on the state-of-the-art of multimedia metadata formats. The focus is on their usability within the Semantic Web, in particular formalizations of these existing vocabularies.

Working Draft Documents

Multimedia Annotation Interoperability Framework.
This document will use a bottom-up approach to provide a simple extensible framework to improve interoperability of applications related to some key use cases discussed in the XG.
MPEG-7 and the Semantic Web.
This document targets the developers and researchers in multimedia semantics. It describes the four current OWL/RDF proposals of MPEG-7, as well as a comparison of the different modeling approaches in the context of practical applications. Any harmonizations aiming at providing a single ontology of MPEG-7 will not be done in the framework of this XG.

Living Documents

Meetings

Face to face meetings
- First f2f meeting at CWI in Amsterdam, 10-11 July: registration form, agenda, minutes (Monday, Tuesday), slides and other resources
- Second f2f meeting at NTUA in Athens, 8-9 December (colocated with the SAMT 2006 conference): registration form, agenda, minutes (Friday, Saturday), slides and other resources
Bi-weekly teleconferences on Thursdays, between 17:00 and 18:00 UTC (northern hemisphere winter [standard] time). These teleconferences are intended to be only for Incubator Group members and other invited parties.
Teleconference hours:
- 09:00 San Francisco,
- 12:00 Washington,
- 17:00 London,
- 18:00 Amsterdam,
- 19:00 Athens
Scheduled upcoming telecons:
- none
Agenda to the public mailing list at least 24hrs in advance
Telecon bridge info: bridge status;
IRC: #mmsem on irc.w3.org, port 6665; You can also use the IRC web interface at http://www.w3.org/2001/01/cgi-irc ; A comprehensive help for IRC is available at http://www.w3.org/Project/IRC/.
Help:
- User Instructions for the W3C Zakim Teleconference Bridge
- The guidebook for generating minutes from an IRC log (absolute reading for the scribe).
- The Zakim agent is able to identify the telecon, the persons who are present, to manage the queue of people who want to speak, to mute/unmute the micro of the participants, etc.
- The RRSAgent records all the IRC session. Special commands allow to make the nice HTML page you can see as the minutes. The transformation is made via a Perl script, credit to David Booth.

Minutes

Telecon 26-04-2007: agenda, minutes.
Telecon 12-04-2007: agenda, minutes.
Telecon 29-03-2007: agenda, minutes.
Telecon 15-03-2007: agenda, minutes.
Telecon 01-03-2007: agenda, minutes.
Telecon 15-02-2007: agenda, minutes.
Telecon 01-02-2007: agenda, minutes.
Telecon 18-01-2007: agenda, minutes.
Telecon 11-01-2007: agenda, minutes.
F2F (SAMT, Athens) 08/09-12-2006: agenda, minutes (Friday, Saturday), slides and other resources
Telecon 23-11-2006: agenda, minutes.
Telecon 16-11-2006: agenda, minutes.
Telecon 26-10-2006: agenda, minutes.
Telecon 12-10-2006: agenda, minutes.
Telecon 02-10-2006: agenda, minutes.
Telecon 14-09-2006: agenda, minutes.
Telecon 31-08-2006: agenda, minutes.
Telecon 20-07-2006: agenda, minutes.
F2F (CWI, Amsterdam) 10/11-06-2006: agenda, minutes (Monday, Tuesday), slides and other resources
Telecon 22-06-2006: agenda, minutes.

About the Multimedia Semantics XG

Picture of the group taken during the 2nd F2F meeting in Athens, Greece.
View of the Acropolis from the Divani Hotel terrace

Jeff Pan (University of Aberdeen) <jpan@csd.abdn.ac.uk> and Raphaël Troncy (CWI Amsterdam) <Raphael.Troncy@cwi.nl> co-Chairs.
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