Call for a common multimedia ontology framework requirements

The need for a common multimedia ontology comes out from the research experience of our team, both in the framework of a Network of Excellence (MUSCLE- Multimedia Understanding through Semantics, Computation and Logic) and of a collaboration with the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). Within the MUSCLE-NoE, we are working to show possible strategies for the interoperability of multimedia groups. ISTI is in fact leading the WP9 Working Group (Representation and Communication of Data and Meta-Data), particularly dedicated to enabling interaction and exchange of meta-data emanating from different MultiMedia modalities. This requires standardization of data and meta-data formats and thus we have been interested in analyzing requirements for multimedia elaborations and made a state of the art study of possible standard schemas and frameworks (see http://si-lab.isti.cnr.it and http://muscle.isti.cnr.it web sites for details). In the end, we have to acknowledge the need to extend the available technology towards multimedia ontologies. To add more semantics in order to be able to handle applications that require annotation, retrieval, summarization of multimedia documents. Furthermore, the extension has to be done in line with Semantic Web technology, to provide for easiness of integration and interoperability with other existing applications and tools and widespread among different communities of users.