[html4all] Image Annotation on the Semantic Web [Incubator Group Report]

[Gregory J. Rosmaita]

Image Annotation on the Semantic Web
W3C Incubator Group Report 14 August 2007

http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/mmsem/XGR-image-annotation-20070814/

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cite="http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/mmsem/XGR-image-annotation-
20070814/#roadmap">

Document Roadmap

After reading this document, readers may turn to separate living 
documents discussing individual multimedia annotation vocabularies [1], 
and other relevant tools and resources. [2]  Most of the current 
approaches to image annotation are not based on Semantic Web languages. 
Interoperability between these technologies and RDF and OWL-based 
approaches is not the topic of this document, but interested readers can 
look at the Multimedia Annotation Interoperability Framework document. [3]

Target Audience

This document is target at everybody with an interest in image 
annotation, ranging from non-professional end-users that are annotating 
their personal digital photos to professionals working with digital 
pictures in image and video banks, audiovisual archives, museums, 
libraries, media production and broadcast industry, etc.

Objectives

  * To illustrate the benefits of using semantic technologies in 
    image annotations.

  * To provide guidelines for applying semantic technologies in 
    this area.

  * To collect currently used vocabularies for Semantic Web-based 
    image annotation.

  * To provide use cases with examples of Semantic Web-based image 
    annotation.

Discussion of this document is invited on the public mailing list 
public-xg-mmsem at w3.org (public archives). Public comments should 
include "[MMSEM-Image]" as subject-prefix. [4]
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[1] http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/mmsem/wiki/Vocabularies
[2] http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/mmsem/wiki/Tools_and_Resources
[3] http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/mmsem/XGR-interoperability/
[4] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xg-mmsem/

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