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    <h1>Image Annotation on the Semantic Web: Overview of Relevant Resources</h1>
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       <strong>Status: this document is no longer actively maintained.  Please update your links to 
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    <p>
      This document is based on unfinished work performed in the context
      of the multimedia task force of the W3C Semantic Web Best
      Practices and Deployment Working Group.  All information
      provided here serves purely as a list of examples, and inclusion
      on this page does not imply endorsement by the W3C membership or
      the Working Group.
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    <p>
      This collection of resources was developed in the context of

      <a
      href="http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/mmsem/XGR-image-annotation/">
      Image annotation on the Semantic Web</a>.
    </p>

    <h3>To do</h3>
    <ul>
      <li>Check newer documents for additions and improvements</li>
      <li>Add more example entries</li>
      <li>Provide short descriptions for each entry</li>
      <li>Provide links to actual examples</li>
      <li>Make DOAP profile for this page</li>
    </ul>


    <h3>Examples of image annotations on the Semantic Web</h3>
    <ul>
      <li>Photo annotation and social networking
	<ul>
	  <li>
	    Introduction &amp; background reading (see <a
	    href="http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/publications/researchreport/rr1065/report_html?ilrtyear=2003">Easy
	    Image Annotation for the Semantic Web, ILRT Tech report</a>)
	  </li>
	  <li>
	    <a href="http://rdfweb.org/topic/CoDepiction">FOAF
	    co-depiction</a> "Co-depiction is simply the state of
	    being depicted in the same picture as someone else. We're
	    cataloguing this using FOAF RDF documents, sharing and
	    collecting these in the Web, as a way of documenting in a
	    visual way some connections between people."

	  </li>
	  <li>
	    <a href="http://w3photo.org/">w3photo</a> "envisions a
	    royalty-free archive of conference pictures from WWW1 to
	    Today -- searchable by the Semantic Web and ready for your
	    tools". It uses various vocabulary, including Dublin Core,
	    FOAF, CYC, Creative Commons, FotoNotes etc.
	    <ul>
	      <li>
		<a href="http://www.bnowack.de/w3photo/pages/image_vocabs">Image region vocabulary</a>
	      </li>
	      <li>
		<a href="http://swordfish.rdfweb.org/discovery/2004/01/www2004/files/">
		Example RDF files
		</a>
	      </li>
	      <li>
		<a href="http://swordfish.rdfweb.org/discovery/2004/01/www2004/">More examples</a>
	      </li>
	    </ul>
	  </li>
	  <li>
	    <a href="http://www.confoto.org/">CONFOTO</a> "is an
	    experimental sharing and annotation service for conference
	    photos. It utilizes common RDF vocabularies (dc, foaf,
	    rev, cc, ical, w3photo) to combine simple tagging with
	    rich annotations (e.g. depicted persons, related events,
	    ratings).  RDF data is accessible via SPARQL, URIQA, or a
	    link at the bottom of each page."
	  </li>
	  <li>
	    <a href="http://fotonotes.net/">FotoNotes</a> "The goal of
	    the Fotonotes specification is to make it significantly
	    easier for individuals and groups to share meaningful
	    information about (a) what is visually depicted within the
	    photograph and (b) what is contextually (and/or
	    personally) significant about what is (or is not) visually
	    represented."
	  </li>
	</ul>
      </li>
      <li>
	Other image annotation projects
	<ul>
	  <li>
	    <a href="http://www.w3.org/2003/12/exif/">RDF Schema for EXIF</a>
	  </li>
          <li>
            <a href="http://impressive.net/people/gerald/2000/09/photo.html">Photo metadata software/notes
by Gerald Oskoboiny</a>
	  </li>
	  <li>
	    <a href="http://esw.w3.org/mt/esw/archives/cat_image_annotation.html">
	      SWAD-Europe catalog of image annotation projects
	    </a>
	  </li>
	  <li>
	    <a href="http://www.kanzaki.com/docs/sw/img-annotator.html">Masahide Kanzaki's Image Annotator</a>
	    <ul>
	      <li>
		<a href="http://www.kanzaki.com/works/2003/imagedesc/yakitoriya.rdf">
		  RDF example
		</a>
	      </li>
	    </ul>
	  </li>
	  <li>
	    <a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/rdfpic/">RDFpic</a> by Lafon and Bos 
	  </li>
	</ul>
      </li>
      <li>
	Combining RDF and MPEG7
	<ul>
	  <li>
	    Introduction and background reading (IEEE Multimedia
	    papers, <a href="http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MMUL.2004.36">Part I</a> and <a
	    href="http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MMUL.2005.12">Part II</a>)
	  </li>
	  <li>
	    Jane Hunter et al on annotation of fusion cell images (see
	    <a href="http://www.semanticweb.org/SWWS/program/full/paper59.pdf">SWWS 2001 paper</a>, <a href="http://maenad.dstc.edu.au/papers/2004/iswc2004-rbe.pdf">ISWC04 paper</a>, etc)
	       <ul>
		<li><a href="http://maenad.dstc.edu.au/slittle/mpeg7.owl">MPEG-7 fragment in OWL</a></li>
		<li><a href="http://metadata.net/harmony/Results.htm">ABC ontology in RDF</a></li>
               </ul>
	  </li>
	  <li>
	    Troncy et al on combining XML and RDF for audio visual archiving 
            within INA (see 
            <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/index/U3TXQY8BR03TE7RG.pdf">
              ISWC2003</a> paper)
	    (note: AV-annotation is also relevant for images)
	  </li>
	  <li>
	    Chrisa Tsinaraki et al on MPEG-7 and OWL (Coupling OWL
	    with MPEG-7 and TV-Anytime for Domain-specific Multimedia
	    Information Integration and Retrieval, see
	     <a href="http://www.ced.tuc.gr/Staff/Director/Publications/publ_files/C_TPMC_RIAO_2004.pdf">
	     RIAO 2004 paper</a>)
	  </li>
	</ul>
      </li>
      <li>
	Using RDF for describing visual resources in the art domain
	<ul>
	  <li>
	    Laura Hollink et al on spatial semantics, also using
	    WordNet, Sumo, VRA, AAT etc in RDF (<a
	    href="http://www.cs.vu.nl/~laurah/1/papers/Hollink_SemAnnot04.pdf">ISWC 04
	    workshop paper</a>,<a href="http://www.cs.vu.nl/~guus/papers/Hollink03b.pdf">K-CAP 2003 paper</a>). See Laura's <a href="http://www.cs.vu.nl/~laurah/VO/">Visual Ontology page</a> for up to date version of the RDF/OWL schemata.
	  </li>
	  <li>
	    Schreiber et al on annotation templates (<a href="http://hcs.science.uva.nl/usr/Schreiber/papers/Schreiber01a.pdf">IEEE IS paper</a>)
	  </li>
	  <li>
	    Schreiber et al on use of home grown RDF-version of Getty
	    AAT/ULAN/TGN and IconClass for image annotation (see <a href="http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=500767&amp;type=pdf&amp;coll=GUIDE&amp;dl=GUIDE&amp;CFID=51025670&amp;CFTOKEN=35227816">K-CAP 2001 paper</a>)
	  </li>
	  <li>
	    HP's and other Simile work on describing paintings etc 
	    (see <a href="http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2004/HPL-2004-147.pdf">
	    HP's Data conversion techreport</a>)
	  </li>
	</ul>
      </li>
      <li>
	Embedding RDF image annotations in other formats
	<ul>
	  <li>
	    Van Ossenbruggen et al on embedding RDF in SMIL (see <a href="http://homepages.cwi.nl/~media/cuypers/QuestionHow/">QuestionHow work</a>)
	    <ul>
	    <li>
	    <a href="http://homepages.cwi.nl/~media/cuypers/QuestionHow/smil-annotated.xml">RDF-annotated SMIL example</a>
	    </li>
	    </ul>
	  </li>
	  <li>
	    Ivan Herman et al on embedding RDF in SVG (also relevant
	    accessibility issues here) (see <a
	    href="http://homepages.cwi.nl/~ivan/AboutMe/Publications/Linearization.pdf">Computer
	    Graphics Forum paper</a>).
	  </li>
	  <li>
	    <a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/xmp/">Adobe's XMP</a>
	  </li>
	</ul>
      </li>
    </ul>  


    <h3>Non-RDF based work that is relevant</h3>
    <ul>
      <li>
	<a href="http://www.flickr.com/">flickr</a>
      </li>
      <li>
	<a href="http://www.exif.org/">EXIF</a> "stands for
	Exchangeable Image File Format, and is a standard for storing
	interchange information in image files, especially those using
	JPEG compression. Most digital cameras now use the EXIF
	format. The format is part of the DCF standard created by
	JEITA to encourage interoperability between imaging devices."
      </li>
      <li>
	<a href="http://www.gettyimages.com/">Getty images collection</a>, annotations and <a href="http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/">vocabularies</a>
      </li>
      <li>
	<a href="http://www.iconclass.nl/">IconClass</a> iconographic
	classification system, thesaurus for describing icons and
	other visual art
      </li>
      <li>
	Mark Davis's work on 
	<a href="http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/golan/mediastreams/">Media Streams</a>
      </li>
      <li>MPEG-7 Related:
        <ul>
	<li><a href="http://mp7.watson.ibm.com/">IBM's MPEG-7 work for TRECvid</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://www.semanticmetadata.net/features/">Caliph &amp; Emir</a>
are MPEG-7 based Java prototypes for digital photo and image annotation and retrieval supporting graph like annotation for semantic metadata and content based image retrieval using MPEG-7 descriptors.</li>
       </ul>
      </li>
    </ul>

    <h3>Projects and events that are relevant</h3>
    <ul>
      <li>Workshops
	<ul>
	  <li>
	    <a href="http://www.acemedia.org/ESWC2005_MSW/">
	      ESWC/Multimedia and the Semantic Web
	    </a>
	  </li>
	  <li>
	    EWIMT
	    <a href="http://www.acemedia.org/aceMedia/events/ewimt_2004.html">2004</a>,
	    <a href="http://www.acemedia.org/ewimt2005/">2005</a>.
	  </li>
	</ul>
      </li>
      <li>
	Projects
	<ul>
	  <li>
	    <a href="http://www.acemedia.org/">aceMedia</a>
	    European FP6 project
	    <ul>
	      <li>
		<a href="http://www.acemedia.org/aceMedia/reference/resource/">
		  aceMedia's multimedia ontology collection
		</a>
	      </li>
	    </ul>
	  </li>
	  <li>
	    <a href="http://www.iti.gr/db.php/en/projects/K-Space.html">
	    K-Space</a>
	    European FP6 Network of Excellence
	  </li>
	</ul>
      </li>
      <li>
	<a href="http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ninchguide/">The
	NINCH Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation and
	Management of Cultural Heritage Materials</a>
      </li>
    </ul>
    
    <h3>Acknowledgments</h3>
    <p>
      Thanks to Libby Miller and Benjamin Nowack for the pointers and descriptions.
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