A Brief Survey of Multimedia Annotation Localisation on the Web of Linked Data
David D. Lewis · Arrow@dit (Dublin Institute of Technology) · 2014
Multimedia annotation generates a vast amount of monolingual data that helps to describe audio, video, and still images.These annotations are, however, unlikely to be useful to people that do not communicate in the same language.Annotations may also have insufficient context for people from different cultures.There is a demand for localised annotations as well as localised multimedia.If annotated resources are to be shared effectively on the Web of Linked Data, they need to be connected to similar resources that have already been adapted for other languages and cultures.In the absence of Linked Data, monolingual annotations remain trapped in silos and cannot, therefore, be shared.We have identified a gap in the localisation continuity between multimedia annotations and the Web of Linked Data.Flickr was examined as an example, and also as a representative candidate, of open social media platforms.Localisation was also taken into consideration when looking at current multimedia ontologies and Linked Data frameworks.