Re: Elaborating on the Video use case

Dear Dave,

[...]

> Other things to think about:
> * is the annotation structured or simple?  So, for example, is a person 
> a structured element with family name, given name, birthdate, and so on, 
> or is it a string "Dvorak, Antonin"?

I would encourage to use structured metadata, and use as much as 
possible web resources (URIs), possibly coming from controlled 
vocabularies, rather than plain strings. I would suggest to use the RDF 
model for representing the metadata. In your example, it could be 
something like:

<rdf:Description 
rdf:about="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._6_(Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k)">
   <dc:title>Symphony 6, II Adagio</dc:title>
   <mo:composer rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/page/Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k"/>
   <mo:performer>
     <mo:MusicArtist 
rdf:resource="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Symphony_Orchestra"/>
   </mo:performer>
</rdf:Description>

... using the Music Ontology [1] and wikipedia/dbpedia resources.

   Raphaël

[1] http://musicontology.com/

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Raphaël Troncy
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Received on Friday, 3 October 2008 18:36:33 UTC