Institute of Information Systems & Information Management

RDFa-deployed Multimedia Metadata

Werner Bailer & Michael HausenblasGraz, 2007-08-10

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Agenda Why? (Motivation) Where? (Use Cases) How? (Corner Stones)

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Why?

I speak RDF

I speak MPEG-7

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Why?

I speak RDF

I speak MPEG-7 … but wait!

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Why? Last Mile

Figure taken from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_mile); cudos to N6gn

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Why? Last Mile For communications provider, the last mile is the

final leg of delivering connectivity to a customer Equally, in business the last mile is used to

describe the process of getting any deliverable to the final consumer.

In our case, the last mile is the delivery of multimedia metadata to the end-user (a Semantic Web agent)

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Why? Last Mile

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Why? Last Mile We have a lot of multimedia metadata formats as

MPEG-7, Exif, ID3, etc.; We have RDF as a common data model on the

Semantic Web; But how can we deliver the metadata along with the

content to the end-user in the context of the Semantic Web?

Institute of Information Systems & Information Management

RDFa-deployed Multimedia Metadata

Werner Bailer & Michael HausenblasGraz, 2007-08-10