- From: Misha Wolf <Misha.Wolf@reuters.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 03:59:22 +0000
- To: Raphaël Troncy <Raphael.Troncy@cwi.nl>
- Cc: Jacco van Ossenbruggen <Jacco.van.Ossenbruggen@cwi.nl>, SWBP W3C Group <public-swbp-wg@w3.org>, iptc-metadata@yahoogroups.com, public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org
Dear Raphaël, Please accept my apologies for the delayed reply. I am currently snowed under with work on the new family of IPTC standards, which (as it happens) will be firmly based on the Semantic Web. We held a meeting with folks from the Semantic Web Activity in July of this year and have since then been working with the RDF-in-XHTML Task Force. We would be very happy to work with you on the efforts you describe. How do you propose that we go about this? Regards, Misha Wolf News Standards Manager, Reuters, www.reuters.com Vice-Chair, News Architecture WP; Chair, News Metadata Framework WG, IPTC, www.iptc.org/dev -----Original Message----- From: Raphaël Troncy [mailto:Raphael.Troncy@cwi.nl] Sent: 02 November 2005 12:51 To: Misha Wolf Cc: Jacco van Ossenbruggen; SWBP W3C Group Subject: [ALL/MM]: IPTC and Images Annotation on the Semantic Web Dear Misha, As you may have seen, the Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment W3C Working Group [1] has a new task force since a couple of month dedicated to the Annotation of Multimedia material on the Semantic Web [2]. Even if in a longer term goal, we aim to address the annotation of any multimedia material with Semantic Web technologies (including videos, broadcasted TV programs, etc...), we focus in a first step on images annotation. In a first ongoing working draft [3], we have gathered some "typical" use cases of "images annotation" and we try to bring some possible solutions using semantic web technologies. One of these use cases which seem very important for us concern all the images and photos that press agencies have (like Reuters, AP, AFP, ...) and need to be described. We would like thus to establish some contact with you (as the IPTC New Metadata Framework chairman and a Reuters employee) and more generally with IPTC to better know what are currently the requirements for this profession, the technologies used and the needs already or not yet fulfilled. The idea is to really stick to real use cases. Would you like to work with us on setting up a use case about annotating news images on the Semantic Web? In a second working draft, we will addressed the problem of interoperability between Semantic Web technologies and the main (non-RDF) standards for image annotations, such as EXIF, MPEG-7 + TV Anytime, IPTC standards, etc ... Again, we will be very glad to cooperate with you and know if we address real problems or if we simply go in the wrong directions. Sincerely. Raphaël Troncy [1] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/ [2] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/MM/ [3] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/MM/image_annotation_galway.html This document will be discussed this end of week in Galway before the next ISWC conference. -- Raphaël Troncy CWI (Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science), Kruislaan 413, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands e-mail: raphael.troncy@cwi.nl & raphael.troncy@gmail.com Tel: +31 (0)20 - 592 4093 Fax: +31 (0)20 - 592 4312 Web: http://www.cwi.nl/ins2/ To find out more about Reuters visit www.about.reuters.com Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Reuters Ltd.
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