Re: Audio and music?

Hello!

>> I just came across the following table:
>> http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Annotations/wiki/FeaturesTable
>> which (I hope, otherwise just ignore this email) is maintained by this
>> group.
>>
>> Does the scope of the ontology you aim at developing also encompass
>> audio and music? I was wondering at that when I saw ID3 mentioned in
>> the table.
>>
>
> The main focus of our group is video. We are also looking into other
> multimedia vocabularies, including ID3. However, I cannot tell (yet) to what
> extend these will be taken into account.

First of all, congratulations on the public draft!

At this occasion, I just took a look at the latest mapping table, and
a few audio or music-related format are taken into account - thanks :)
When reading the table, I noticed that the mapping to your core
properties from existing formats worked really well for flat schemas
(e.g. DC or ID3), but the explanations of the mapping for other
(non-flat) schemas were missing. For example, ma:keyword is mapped to
adaptationOf in FRBR, and ma:title is mapped to realizationOf /
embodymentOf / exemplarOf. It is quite hard to guess (even for
FRBR-savvy people) what that could mean, and how we could proceed to
write a mapper from a FRBR-based vocabulary (e.g. Music Ontology) to
the Ontology for Media Resource. For example, one problem I ran into
when trying to write such a mapper was for a classical music
recording: should ma:title be the title of the work (e.g. Beethoven's
fifth), a title for the performance (e.g. Beethoven's fifth performed
by the LSO) or a title for the track (e.g. Beethoven's fifth performed
by the LSO, LSO at the BBC Proms)? Will there be specific guidelines
for such mappings?

Cheers,
Yves

Received on Monday, 22 June 2009 22:40:18 UTC