Format-independent and metadata-driven media resource adaptation using semantic web technologies

Web Usage Driven Adaptation of the Semantic Web

The notion of the Semantic Web has emerged as a solution to the problem of organizing the immense information provided by the World Wide Web. However, this information has to be constantly updated and reorganized in order to better serve the changing needs of the web users. A static Semantic Web can therefore be of little use in the environment of the ever-transforming World Wide Web. In the co...

Multimedia Metadata Processing: A Format Independent Approach

In multimedia applications, XML is being increasingly used to represent metadata; examples are MPEG-7 multimedia description schemes and MPEG-21 usage environment descriptions. As with the media data, the size of, or the overhead induced by, the XML metadata is important, particularly when used on constrained mobile devices. Therefore, compression (binary encoding) of the XML data becomes relev...

NinSuna: Metadata-Driven Media Delivery

Harmonizing bioCADDIE Metadata Schemas for Indexing Clinical Research Datasets Using Semantic Web Technologies

An important role of the NIH Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) biomedical and healthCAre Data Discovery Index Ecosystem (bioCADDIE) is to promote data integration through the adoption of content standards and alignment to common data elements and high-level schema. The objective of this study was to investigate how a combination of Semantic Web technologies and the ISO/IEC 11179 data element model c...

IMPROVE THE RECOMMENDER SYSTEM USING SEMANTIC WEB

To buy his/her necessities such as books, movies, CD, music, etc., one always trusts others’ oral and written consultations and offers and include them in his/her decisions. Nowadays, regarding the progress of technologies and development of e-business in websites, a new age of digital life has been commenced with the Recommender systems. The most important objectives of these systems include a...