1 Multimedia Content Description using Semantic Web Languages Roberto García1, Chrisa Tsinaraki2, Òscar Celma3 and Stavros Christodoulakis2 1 Human-Computer Interaction Research Group (GRIHO), Universitat de Lleida, Spain
[email protected] 2 Laboratory of Distributed Multimedia Information Systems and Applications (TUC/MUSIC), Technical University of Crete, Chania, Crete, Greece, {chrisa, stavros}@ced.tuc.gr 2 Music Technology Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
[email protected] 1 Introduction During the last decades, digital media have revolutionised media reproduction. The availability of cheap con- sumer electronic devices that allow the consumption and management of digital multimedia content (e.g. MP3 players, digital cameras, DV camcorders, smart phones etc) has caused a media availability explosion. The amount of digital media that has been generated and stored, and which continues to do so at an exponen- tial rate, has already become unmanageable without fine-grained computerised support. This, in combination with the media distribution break-up carried out by the World Wide Web and the emergence of advanced network infrastructures that allow for the fast, efficient and reliable transmission of multimedia content, have formed an open multimedia consumption environment. Digital multimedia content services are provided in this environment, which offer high content quality, advanced interaction capabilities, media personalization and adaptation according to the user preferences and access conditions. Such an open environment will be successful only if it is based on standards that allow the services provided by different vendors to interoperate. The specification of different multimedia content description standards poses inter- operability requirements and necessitates guidelines for semantic interoperability. These issues are discussed in detail in (Tzouvaras, Pan 2007).