(unknown charset) RE: [MM] Status update for 2nd deliverable...

On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Uschold, Michael F wrote:

> A good start would be to identify some use cases where having EXIF translated into RDF is useful. Playing devil's advocate, one can say it is just a trivial syntactic translation of one format to the other. What services can be supported once it is in RDF? Give examples.
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> Mike
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> From: Christian Halaschek-Wiener [mailto:halasche@cs.umd.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 4:52 PM
> To: Jacco van Ossenbruggen; Giorgos Stamou; Vassilis Tzouvaras; Jeff Pan; Raphaël Troncy
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> Subject: [MM] Status update for 2nd deliverable...
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> Hi,
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> I wanted to give you all some status on the EXIF section I'm working on for the 2nd deliverable.
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> After looking around, I found that there are two EXIF ontologies (RDFS) currently publicly available. These include
> 1) http://www.w3.org/2003/12/exif/
> - this is develped by Kanzaki.com and was moved to a W3C site a while back.
> - it is also the one we use in PhotoStuff


just fyi, Kanzaki's was put on the w3c site after it won an rdf/exif
'beauty contest', since there were several schemas about.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=exif+%27beauty+contest%27&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

Libby

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> 2) http://nwalsh.com/rdf/
> - develped by Norm Walsh
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> Semantically both are very similar..they are essentially straightforward encodings of the EXIF metadata tags for images (see http://www.exif.org/Exif2-2.PDF). There are some syntactic differences, but again they are quite similar.
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> Both developers provide an EXIF conversion service:
> 1) Kanzaki - http://www.kanzaki.com/test/exif2rdf
> - It is essentially a simple web page, in which you can paste and image URL to an EXIF image and it will extract the EXIF metadata and convert it to RDF.
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> 2) Norm Walsh - http://www.nwalsh.com/java/jpegrdf/
>                 - He provides a Java program that among other things, will read an EXIF image and covert the metadata to RDF
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> I haven't yet compared the output of the converters in detail yet, however upon first glance they seem similar.
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> As a side note, I also came across http://jigsaw.w3.org/rdfpic/ which will embed RDF in the EXIF header of JPEG files.
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> So, given this, I have a question...exactly how do we want to proceed and exactly what do we want to show in the 2nd deliverable. Any feedback would be great.
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> Cheers,
> Chris
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> Christian Halaschek-Wiener
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> PhD Student, Dept. of Computer Science
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> GRA, MINDSWAP Research Group,
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> University of Maryland, College Park
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> Web page: http://www.mindswap.org/~chris
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