Ontology for Media Resources is W3C Recommendation

Video in the Web has seen explosive growth, improving the richness of the user experience but leading to challenges in content discovery, searching, indexing and accessibility. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has thus started the Video in the Web initiative to develop new standards in this area. One of the working groups is the Media Annotation WG, which has now finalised the development of an ontology for media resources. Members of JOANNEUM RESEARCH's institute DIGITAL have made significant contributions to the specification, which has now become an official W3C Recommmendation.

The ontology defines a set of core properties for audiovisual media resources, including a normative RDF/OWL representation of the ontology. In addition, an extensive set of mappings to many common multimedia metadata formats is provided. An API for using this ontology in Web applications is currently a Candidate Recommendation, expected to be finalised in summer 2012.