Semantic Web for Multimedia:

Panel DiscussionSean Bechhofer

Semantic Web for Multimedia:

Panel DiscussionSean Bechhofer

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I Want Multimedia Metadata Too!

I Want Multimedia Metadata Too!

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1. Probably2. Probably not3. Depends4. Might scale, but what are you going to

do with it?

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• Annotation– Associating metadata with resources

• Integration– Integrating information from various sources

• Inference– Reasoning over the information we have.– Could be light-weight (taxonomy)– Could be heavy-weight (logic-style)

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• Do we need specific standards?– What are the standards to address?– Lots of effort on subsymbolic and symbolic

data– Use existing infrastructures– Migration paths

• MPEG-7 or tagging?– Fits with annotation– Kind of fits with integration– What about inference?

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• Feature Extraction?– What are you going to do with the results?

• Scalable tagging?– How do I reconcile tags?– How do I ensure some consistency?– Bridging the Gap– Depends on what you’re doing

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