Multimedia Metadata Standards

With increasing use of multimedia in various domains, several metadata standards appeared these last decades in order to facilitate the manipulation of multimedia contents. These standards help consumers to search content they desire and to adapt the retrieved content according to consumers’ profiles and preferences. However, in order to extract information from a given standard, a user must have a pre-knowledge about this latest. This condition is not easy to satisfy due to the increasing number of available standards. In this chapter, we introduce some of the main de facto multimedia standards that cover the description, by means of metadata, of the content and of the use context (profiles, devices, networks…). We discuss then the benefits of proposing an integrated vision of multimedia metadata standards through the usage of a generic multimedia metadata integration system, and we expose the challenges of its implementation.

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A METHOD FOR INTEGRATING MULTIMEDIA METADATA STANDARDS AND METADATA FORMATS WITH THE MULTIMEDIA METADATA ONTOLOGY

International Journal of Semantic Computing ◽

10.1142/s1793351x12400028 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 06 (01) ◽

pp. 25-49 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

ANSGAR SCHERP ◽

DANIEL EIßING ◽

CARSTEN SAATHOFF

Keyword(s):

Multimedia Applications ◽

Alignment Method ◽

Integration Process ◽

Modeling Framework ◽

Metadata Standard ◽

Concrete Application ◽

Metadata Standards ◽

Multimedia Metadata ◽

Generic Modeling ◽

Metadata Format

The M3O abstracts from the existing metadata standards and formats and provides generic modeling solutions for annotations, decompositions, and provenance of metadata. Being a generic modeling framework, the M3O aims at integrating the existing metadata standards and metadata formats rather than replacing them. This is in particular useful as today's multimedia applications often need to combine and use more than one existing metadata standard or metadata format at the same time. However, applying and specializing the abstract and powerful M3O modeling framework in concrete application domains and integrating it with existing metadata formats and metadata standards is not always straightforward. Thus, we have developed a step-by-step alignment method that describes how to integrate existing multimedia metadata standards and metadata formats with the M3O in order to use them in a concrete application. We demonstrate our alignment method by integrating seven different existing metadata standards and metadata formats with the M3O and describe the experiences made during the integration process.

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Multimedia Metadata Standards

Encyclopedia of Multimedia ◽

10.1007/978-0-387-78414-4_49 ◽

2008 ◽

pp. 568-575 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Werner Bailer ◽

Lionel Brunie ◽

Mario Döller ◽

Michael Granitzer ◽

Ralf Klamma ◽

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Keyword(s):

Metadata Standards ◽

Multimedia Metadata

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A PATTERN SYSTEM FOR DESCRIBING THE SEMANTICS OF STRUCTURED MULTIMEDIA DOCUMENTS

International Journal of Semantic Computing ◽

10.1142/s1793351x12400089 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 06 (03) ◽

pp. 263-288 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

ANSGAR SCHERP ◽

CARSTEN SAATHOFF ◽

STEFAN SCHEGLMANN

Keyword(s):

Design Patterns ◽

Application Programming Interface ◽

Multimedia Applications ◽

Modeling Framework ◽

Multimedia Documents ◽

Media Type ◽

Semantic Data ◽

Ontology Design ◽

Metadata Standards ◽

Multimedia Metadata

Today's metadata models and metadata standards often focus on a specific media type only, lack combinability with other metadata models, or are limited with respect to the features they support. Thus they are not sufficient to describe the semantics of rich, structured multimedia documents. To overcome these limitations, we have developed a comprehensive model for representing multimedia metadata, the Multimedia Metadata Ontology (M3O). The M3O has been developed by an extensive analysis of related work and abstracts from the features of existing metadata models and metadata standards. It is based on the foundational ontology DOLCE+DnS Ultralight and makes use of ontology design patterns. The M3O serves as generic modeling framework for integrating the existing metadata models and metadata standards rather than replacing them. As such, the M3O can be used internally as semantic data model within complex multimedia applications such as authoring tools or multimedia management systems. To make use of the M3O in concrete multimedia applications, a generic application programming interface (API) has been implemented based on a sophisticated persistence layer that provides explicit support for ontology design patterns. To demonstrate applicability of the M3O API, we have integrated and applied it with our SemanticMM4U framework for the multi-channel generation of semantically annotated multimedia documents.

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