Multimedia and the Semantic Web

Biography: mc schraefel is a Senior Lecturer in the Intelligence, Agents and Multimedia Group, Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton. Her main area of research is interaction design for information systems and ubiquitous computing environments.

Abstract: mSpace: Getting from where you are to where you want to be: considering methods for accessing, exploring and associating content in rich information spaces.
Multimedia and Information Retrieval research continually improves the kinds of features that can be derived automatically from media sources, and thereby improves the types of metadata that can be associated with that content for richer queries. One of the challenges then becomes, how do we leverage this metadata in order to associate multimedia content with other related sources so that those sources may act as a gloss on the multimedia, or the multimedia a gloss on the other material? How do we represent these dynamic associations to people such that the spaces they represent become accessible, explorable, meaningful? In particular, how do we help people discover these richer resources when they may have an interest in a domain but not the lexical expertise to formulate queries? How can we help them leverage the attributes discovered about an artifact through multimedia analysis, where those attributes can be contextualized in such a way that they are meaningful to someone who may have an interest in an area but not the lexical expertise required to parse an expert ontology used to represent the space?
mSpace is an interaction paradigm to help support this kind of access to and exploration of such resources. In this talk, monica will describe the mSpace model, look at some of the research questions stemming from the work, and seek participants' feedback from the multimedia/IR space on where synergies between mSpace interaction and multimedia research may be towards improving the creation and exploration of new kinds of rich dynamic resources, such as dynamically generated digital libraries, where anyone can begin to access and build knowledge.

Links: http://mspace.fm

Guus Schreiber is Professor of Intelligent Information Systems at the Free University Amsterdam. He is co-chair of the W3C Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group and scientific coordinator of the IST Network Knowledge Web. He has been involved in numerous European and Dutch research projects, including KADS & KADS-II (on methodologies for knowledge-system development), REFLECT (reflective reasoning), GAMES (medical knowledge systems), KACTUS (technical ontologies), IBROW (Intelligent Brokering on the Web) and MIA (Multimedia Information Analysis.