With the proliferation of citizen reporting, smart mobile devices, and social media, an increasing number of people are beginning to generate information about events they observe and participate in. A significant fraction of this information contains multimedia data to share the experience with their audience. A systematic information modeling and management framework is necessary to capture this widely heterogeneous, schemaless, potentially humongous information produced by many different people. This book is an attempt to examine the modeling, storage, querying, and applications of such an event management system in a holistic manner. It uses a semantic-web style graph-based view of events, and shows how this event model, together with its query facility, can be used toward emerging applications like semi-automated storytelling.

The ontology is supposed to foster the interoperability among various kinds of metadata formats currently used to describe media resources on the Web.

The mission of the Media Fragments Working Group, part of the Video in the Web Activity, is to address temporal and spatial media fragments in the Web using Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI).

The mission of the Media Annotations Working Group, part of the Video in the Web Activity, is to provide an ontology and API designed to facilitate cross-community data integration of information related to media objects in the Web, such as video, audio and images.

Talk given at the 2nd Linked Data on the Web workshop (LDOW) co located with WWW 2009, Madrid.

Intends to be a dynamic digital library which will understand user queries in the context of a specific discipline, look for content in a domain alien to that discipline and return the results presented in a way useful and comprehensive to the user.

Semi-automatic and Collaborative Retrieval of Information Based on Ontologies - aims at algorithms and collaborative free software for the automatic extraction of knowledge from texts and images, and for the semi-automatic annotation of digital documents.

Aviary is a suite of web-based applications (RIAs) for people who create.

This cultural search engine will give you access to artworks from several museum collections.

We consider the use of Semantic Web technologies for improving the multimedia user experience on the Web.

This document gives an overview on the state-of-the-art of multimedia metadata formats.

Cofax is a Web-based text and multimedia content management system (CMS). It was designed to simplify the presentation of newspapers on the Web and to expedite real-time Web publication.

Schedule for the 1st International Workshop on Human-Centered Multimedia.

The conference aims to bring together researchers from different subject areas (e.g., computer science, linguistics, psychology, statistics, sociology, multimedia and semantic web technologies) and foster discussions about ongoing research.

Concepts related to events, objects, locations, people, and programs have been selected following a multi-step process involving input solicitation, expert critiquing, comparison with related ontologies, and performance evaluation.

The objective of this project is the development of a set of e-culture demonstrators providing multimedia access to distributed collections of cultural heritage objects.

Composing, nurturing, collecting, maintaining, and making associations within information; the environments and related tools in which these activities take place; and the theory behind these activities and environments.

Interactive 3D instant replays for sporting events.

Semantic Web, Knowledge Management, Metadata, Semantic Interoperability, Text Mining, Emergent Semantics, Self-organizing Information Systems, P2P.

Developing content analysis algorithms and systems to generate meta-data locally on mobile/ubicomp platforms.

Research interests in content analysis, information extraction, statistical machine learning and graphical modeling and detection and representation of semantic information.

Research interests include automatic content analysis and annotation of still images, videos and sound for content-driven multimedia archiving and retrieval.

Understanding and thereby manipulating, multimedia content at the semantic level is the only way towards realizing the full potential of emerging digital media technologies.

Interests lie in the areas of databases, data mining, information retrieval, and the semantic web, as they apply to multimedia information.

In developing manual or semi-automatic approaches, however, careful consideration should be give to the interface between the processes for assigning words and for using words. More independent the two processes are, better the complete system will be.

ProjectorBox is a smart appliance that automatically captures, indexes, and manages presentation multimedia.

Research in Elomedia focuses on the means of expressions and design, production and distribution processes and strategies of multimedia.

Research includes Multimedia Producing Communities, Semantic Metadata Descriptions and Ontology, DRM, Payment Systems and Pricing Models on Distributed Networks, P2P Networks.

Content 360 is a brand new initiative encouraging multimedia and application developers to work on new content ideas in collaboration with world leading broadcasters.

We focus on the research and development of technologies for social information infrastructures based on broadband Internet, digital TV broadcasting and mobile Internet.

This is an exploratory page to be used for storage of various multimedia data and metadata profiles, formats, and practices currently in use around the web.

MediaBASE is a software application for creating, sharing and exchanging media objects and compositions within a delimited social context.

This workshop invites contributions on all topics related to annotating multimedia assets using Semantic Web languages and tools.

A new user-generated, interactive, multimedia content website in China. "The Chinese Ourmedia."

CMMLWiki is a research prototype for collaborative editing of CMML annotations for Annodex media.

Multimedia 2006 invites your participation in the premier annual multimedia conference, covering all aspects of multimedia computing: from underlying technologies to applications, theory to practice, and servers to networks to devices.

It includes a knowledge model of intertextual studies, a standardised hypermedia document model and a prototype multimedia authoring tool for use in the publishing life-cycle.

The core of the Passepartout project is researching the automatic generation of personalized suggestions using dynamically built user profiles so that the user always has control over the Mass-Customization Box and how it finds interesting content.

A system for automatic generation of biased video sequences.

The Open Content Alliance (OCA) represents the collaborative efforts of a group of cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental organizations from around the world that will help build a permanent archive of multilingual digitized text and multimedia

The theme of this special issue is to explore and bring together a multi-faceted view on user-centered multimedia system and application design.

Javacast is an Enhanced Podcast to Java MIDlet (J2ME) converter for Mobile Phones. It is to be used by Podcasters to convert their Enhanced Podcasts to Java MIDlets.

A user-friendly tool developed inside the aceMedia project that allows the semantic annotation of images and videos for multimedia analysis and retrieval.

"Perhaps late this year, we will publish a true multimedia e-book [text, sound and video] completely distinct from a printed book."

Multimedia researcher at Hitachi Central Research Laboratory.

Multimedia researcher at NTT Human Interface Laboratories.

Research focuses on creating new technical approaches for computer-understanding of multimedia content and for human interaction with computers, particularly in multimedia.

Research interests are in image coding, image processing, image representation, video indexing, multimedia applications for wearable and ubiquitous enviroment, capturing and processing of person's experiances, multimedia processing for WWW, and computatio

This specification will define an optional package for advanced multimedia functionality which is targeted to run as a supplement in connection with MMAPI (JSR-135) in J2ME/CLDC environment.

MPEG-7 expressed in OWL.

The premier annual multimedia conference, covering all aspects of multimedia computing: from underlying technologies to applications, theory to practice, and servers to networks to devices.

Multimedia information retrieval research community and the practicing video retrieval community are poles apart. They are developing more or less disjoint approaches.

The stimTV™ Network is built on patented technology that facilitates the storage and retrieval of video clips in response to a viewer’s profile or to specific requests by delivering fully assembled, entertaining, broadcast-quality media programming.

A granted U.S. patent entitled A System for the Automated Generation of Media which represents a breakthrough in the ability to generate customized viewing experiences from a database of stored media assets.

This workshop addresses integrative research targeting the engineering of new knowledge-based forms of digital media systems.

A YME plugin extends or changes the functionality of the Yahoo! Music Engine in some useful way.

(Multimedia Netherlands) involves the knowledge creation and transfer on handling of video, pictures, audio, and language in ICT.

The overall aim is to design, implement, validate, and trial a secure and efficient system for both delivery of and access to multimedia content, and for creation of and querying large and distributed multimedia databases.

This one day workshop on Multimedia and the Semantic Web aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in the multimedia and Semantic Web domains in order to assist in forming bridges between the communities for mutual benefit.

Aims to provide students with a understanding for the role of modelling multimedia information in a variety of information retrieval and browsing applications, including personal media collections, organisation-wide media archives, and web-search engines.

Research is concerned with developing intelligent multimedia information systems, like digital image and video libraries, particularly by providing knowledge-rich representations of media content.

We are interested in both synchronous and asynchronous scenarios for collaboration, via audio, video, and data, in person-to-person, person-to-group, and group-to-group settings.

Research Interests: Multimedia Information Systems, Multimedia Publishing Systems, Multimedia Data Bases.

This guide gives media content producers, directors, and photographers the information necessary to develop high quality multimedia content for delivery over wireless handheld devices.

Papers are solicited in all areas of Internet multimedia management systems.

Nice list of multimedia search engines.

Podcast metadata is a standard for using XHTML tags to define machine-readable metadata about podcast shows for use by applications for searching and organizing podcasts.

Seeks to translate commonplace teacher practices into the digital realm so that teachers can more easily integrate into teaching the digital cultural objects available from museums and libraries.

Because your mobile is always with you and always attached to the network, it's a perfect way to mark a particular instance in time.

The three main features of AmigoTV are presence, voice communications, and rich multimedia messaging on TV.

We provide free bandwidth for your video, podcast, software download, or any other file you want to post--no Creative Commons license required.

BoKu is in the process of expanding its podcasting system into a network that is enabling thousands of producers to cost-effectively create compelling content to fit the needs and desires of millions of users, with marketers benefiting from the connection

Our forums span a wide variety of video, audio and animations systems, applications and related interests.

An artist only needs to annotate the image with a few color scribbles, and the indicated colors are automatically propagated in both space and time to produce a fully colorized image or sequence.

The ultimate aim of the Institute is to help faculty and students from across the university and beyond to use the time-based, interactive language of sound, image and text that is the basis of multimedia and apply new concepts for analysis and research.

MonetDB is an open source high-performance database system developed at CWI.

MediaStorm is a multimedia production studio whose principal aim is to usher in this next generation of multimedia storytelling. We provide collaborative production support and an arc of distribution in print, broadcast and online.

Synchrotext is a publisher and player of notated and annotated media. With it, one can edit and present a recorded event that is enhanced, in a timely way, with relevant commentary.

In five years, the things that defined podcasting in 2004 will be forgotten. What will remain are the things that the first generation took for granted and yet pioneered: URLs, open wrapper formats, open protocols, open media formats, and open licensing.