Media Annotations Working Group - Reference Implementation

Today many media sharing applications such as Flickr or YouTube exist on the Web that use diverse metadata formats to describe media resources. This leads to interoperability issues in search, retrieval and annotation. To address this problem, the W3C launched the Media Annotations Working Group, which aims to improve interoperability between multimedia metadata formats on the Web by providing an interlingua ontology and an API designed to facilitate cross-community data integration of information related to media resources on the Web. To do so, syntactic as well as semantic mappings between the so-called media ontology defined by the group and a large number of metadata formats have been identified in the group report Ontology for Media Resources 1.0.

The link address is: http://mawg.joanneum.at/