Application Scenario for Semantic Annotation of Image Collections
Laura Hollink, A. Th. Schreiber, Jan Wielemaker, Bob J. Wielinga, J. Heflin · VU Research Portal · 2003
In this demo we show how ontologies can be used to support annotation and search in image collections. Figure 1 shows the general architecture we used within this study. For this study we used four ontologies (AAT, WordNet, ULAN, Iconclass) which were represented in RDF Schema. The resulting RDF Schema files are read into the tool with help of the SWI-Prolog RDF parser1. The tool subsequently generates a user interface for annotation and search based on the RDF Schema specification. The tool supports loading images and image collections, creating annotations, storing annotations in a RDF file, and two types of image search facilities. For this study we used four thesauri, which are relevant for the art-image domain: