OntoMedia: An Ontology for the Representation of Heterogeneous Media

Jewell, Mr Mike O and Lawrence, Ms K F and Tuffield, Mr Mischa M and Prugel-Bennett, Professor Adam and Nixon, Dr Mark S and schraefel, Dr monica c and Shadbolt, Professor Nigel R (2005) OntoMedia: An Ontology for the Representation of Heterogeneous Media. In Proceedings Multimedia Information Retrieval Workshop (MMIR 2005) at SIG Information Retrieval (SIGIR), Salvador, Brazil.

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With the emergence of the Semantic Web, a shared vocabulary is necessary to annotate the vast collection of heterogeneous media already in existence. The OntoMedia ontology aims to provide a meaningful set of relationships which may enable this process, while being suited to mapping and extension. In this paper we outline the salient features of our ontology as well as initial applications and comparisons to existing technologies.

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