Metadata and multimedia: resources

This is a collection of pointers relevant for research about the use of metadata in a multimedia context. Feel free to add.

Keyword search on multimedia metadata in bridge: references

PhD work (in progress)

PhD research by Lyndon JB Nixon

Lyndon is doing a PhD on "the automated and seamless integration of Internet content with audio-visual material in interactive multimedia presentations.". Lots of Internet/Semantic Web vs MPEG integration.

Research projects

HARMONY

Harmony researches complex multimedia resources in digital libraries, including MPEG/SemWeb interoperability. Project by Dan Brickley, Libby Miller (ILTR), Jane Hunter (DSTC) and Carl Lagoze (Cornell).

SMOOTH

The SMOOTH Multimedia Database Project Database supporting both low level (e.g. feature extraction) and high level (e.g. semantic descriptions) indexing.

European projects

AMICITIA project

Asset Management Integration of Cultural heritage In The Interexchange between Archives . Broad European project on access to digital archives. Project is finished, but website still look as it was setup at the beginning. BBC en Beeld en Geluid were among the partners.

Diamant project

Digital Film Manipulation System . European project with focus on digital film restoration. Filmmuseum was one of the partners.

Echo project

ECHO aims at developing a Digital Library (DL) service for historical films belonging to large national audiovisual archives. Focus on multilingual en speech recognition. Beeld en Geluid/NAA en Twente University (Franciska de Jong) were among the partners.

VIZARD project

European project on advanced video editing with metadata support. Forum des Images (FDI) is one of the partners.

Standardized (Multimedia) Metadata Schemata and Vocabularies

• AAT The Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) is Getty's structured vocabulary of more than 125,000 terms, scope notes, and other information for describing fine art, architecture, decorative arts, archival materials, and material culturee.
• CDWA Categories for the Description of Works of Art (CDWA) is a product of the Art Information Task Force (AITF) and funded by the J. Paul Getty Trust. "The Categories describe the content of art databases by articulating a conceptual framework for describing and accessing information about objects and images. They identify vocabulary resources and descriptive practices that will make information residing in diverse systems both more compatible and more accessible.
• Dublin Core Dublin Core metadata provides card catalog-like definitions for defining the properties of objects for Web-based resource discovery systems. The Dublin Core Metadata Element Set is a set of 15 descriptive semantic definitions. It represents a core set of elements likely to be useful across a broad range of vertical industries and disciplines of study.
• CIDOC. The CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (CRM) provides definitions and a formal structure for describing the implicit and explicit concepts and relationships used in cultural heritage documentation. Also an ISO standard and European project.
• TGN The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN) is a structured vocabulary of more than 1,000,000 geographic names, including vernacular and historical names, coordinates, and place types, focusing on places important for the study of art and architecture.
• ULAN The Union List of Artist Names (ULAN) is Getty's structured vocabulary containing more than 220,000 names and biographical and bibliographic information about artists and architects, including a wealth of variant names, pseudonyms, and language variants.
• VRA Core 3.0 Sort of the DC for visual resources.

Miscellaneous

• a good metadata standards overview by the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN)
• Impressive overview of Metadata Interchange Standards by the European Diffuse project, part of a more general Standards and Specifications List

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