A Methodology to Annotate Cultural Heritage Digital Video

The goal of our work is to provide a well-structured methodological approach for annotating digital video in the domain of cultural heritage, taking into account that the methodologies and technologies currently available do not allow to make the annotation process completely automatic. In the proposed approach an interaction with the user that decides both the video segments to be annotated, and the set of labels to be associated to a segment is always required. This approach uses a predefined set of categories (world-view), hierarchically structured, which classifies the video subjects describing the contents shown in a video. This approach leads both to a way of integrating heterogeneous sources of information, and to structure information in such a way to retrieve video segments through a simple query language.