Unified Access to Media Metadata on the Web

Author

Stegmaier, Florian ; Bailer, Werner ; Burger, Thomas ; Suarez-Figueroa, M.C. ; Mannens, Erik ; Evain, J. ; Hoffernig, M. ; Champin, P. ; Doller, Mario ; Kosch, Harald

Author_Institution

Univ. of Passau, Passau, Germany

Volume

20

Issue

2

fYear

2013

fDate

April-June 2013

Firstpage

22

Lastpage

29

Abstract

The goal of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Media Annotation Working Group (MAWG) is to promote interoperability between multimedia metadata formats on the Web. Audio-visual data is omnipresent on today´s Web, but different interaction interfaces and especially diverse metadata formats prevent unified search, access, and navigation. MAWG has addressed this issue by developing an interlingua ontology and an associated API. This article discusses the rationale and core concepts of the ontology and API for media resources. The specifications developed by MAWG enable interoperable, contextualized, and semantic annotation and search, independent of the source metadata format, that connects multimedia data to the Linked Data Cloud.

Keywords

Internet; application program interfaces; meta data; multimedia computing; ontologies (artificial intelligence); open systems; API; MAWG; W3C; World Wide Web Consortium; audio visual data; interlingua ontology; interoperability; linked data cloud; media annotation working group; media metadata; media resources; metadata formats; multimedia data; multimedia metadata; source metadata format; unified access; Media; Multimedia communication; Ontologies; Semantics; Standards; Vocabulary; interoperability; metadata annotation; multimedia; multimedia applications; standardization;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

MultiMedia, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1070-986X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MMUL.2012.55

Filename

6353418