Exploiting Cultural Heritage Documentation in Semantic Multimedia Annotations

Descriptive information kept by cultural heritage institutions is of great importance as a means of cultural documentation. However the descriptive information and the domain knowledge organized using standards such as the CIDOC/CRM can be (re)used within MPEG-7 to describe the semantics of multimedia objects related to culture. In this paper we propose a methodology for integrating the widely accepted standards MPEG-7 and CIDOC/CRM for multimedia and cultural heritage metadata representation respectively. The methodology allows the exploitation of existing cultural heritage information in automatically generating semantic multimedia annotations as well as the generation of cultural application interfaces (for cultural users) for MPEG-7 environments.