OntoMedia - Creating an Ontology for Marking Up the Contents of Fiction and Other Media

The OntoMedia project began as a convergence of three interests the creation of metadata to describe the content of online amateur fiction, the identification of events in multimedia objects to seed external applications such as sound effects or automatic music generation and, finally, as a potential way of generating narrative. From that beginning it has expanded to describe narrative in media. The focus of this paper will be on the first of these since my initial involvement with the OntoMedia project was due to research I am doing into usability and user requirements in the amateur fiction online space [6]. Other projects are also being developed using the ontology described in this paper as a base. These supplied requirements which influenced the direction of the project and they have their own evaluations of the ontology planned but space does not allow for their inclusion.