Existing Multimedia Ontologies
Following is a list of multimedia ontologies which I [1] recently investigated in a survey done in the European project SALERO [2,3]. A considerable amount of them is described in a book chapter which will be published in 2009 [4]. You can click on the names of the ontologies to follow links to further information about the ontologies (TODO: Complete the links; update with recently discovered ontologies)
| RDF/OWL Representation of VRA | Aim@Shape Virtual Humans Ontology | VERL Ontology Framework | Places Concept Ontology | brain MRI images Ontology | Image Region Vocabulary | Descriptive Vocabulary for Image Structure | Acemedia Ontology Framework | DIG35 Ontology | MPEG-7 MDS Ontology | ImageStore Ontology | Mindswap Image Region Ontology | Medical Image Domain Ontology | Swinto | Music Ontology | MESH Multimedia Ontology | MPEG-7 Upper MDS Ontology | CUYPERS Discourse Ontologies | OntoMedia Ontology | LH Visual Ontology | LSCOM | SWeMPS Ontology | XYZ Ontology | PE (Picturally Enriched) Ontology | CIDOC CRM | CIDOC-ABC | Kanzaki Exif RDF Schema | Music Vocabulary | SmartMedia Ontology | Ramm.X | Semantic eLO Ontology | NM2 Ontologies | Norm Walsh Exif RDF Schema | Advene Annotation Ontology | Music Recommendation | SCULPTEUR Ontology | LingInfo | 3D Shape Annotation Ontology | AudioVisual Description Core Ontology | Core Ontology for Multimedia (COMM) | MPEG-7 Ontology by Rhizomik | Vannotea Ontology | Events Ontology | IAT Image Analysis Ontology | Multimedia Analysis Ontology | Core Image (Region) Ontology | Object and Shot Ontology | aceMedia Visual Descriptor Ontology | SALERO Virtual Character Ontology | SALERO Media Annotation Ontology | RICO MPEG-21 Digitel Item Declaration (DID) ontlogy | Reusable Intelligent Content Objects (RICO) Ontologies | Aim@Shape Shape Acquisition and Processing Ontology | Common Shape Ontology | Common Tool Ontology | Product desing ontology | MPEG-7 WSML Ontology | Microsoft Interactive Media Manager (IMM) ontologies |
The font size of the ontologies in the list above expresses the subjective popularity of the ontologies (from the perspective of the maintainer of this website). If you feel that the size of your ontology shall be adjusted, then please drop me a note. If you want one or more ontologies to be added to this list, then please also drop me a note at tobias.buerger [at] sti2.at.
Further references to existing vocabularies and ontologies to describe multimedia content can be found in [5].
[1] http://www.tobiasbuerger.com
[2] http://www.tobiasbuerger.com/mmsurvey/
[3] http:/www.salero.eu
[4] Tobias Bürger and Michael Hausenblas "Metadata and ontologies
for multimedia". In: Miguel-Angel Sicilia (ed.): Handbook of Metadata,
Semantics and Ontologies, World Scientific Publishing Co., 2009. (forthcoming)
[5] M. Hausenblas, R. Troncy, C. Halaschek-Wiener, Tobias Bürger, O.
Celma. Multimedia Semantics on the Web: Vocabularies. W3C Multimedia Semantics
Incubator Group, Editor's Draft. 2007. (Link)