MPEG-7Ontos
The objective of this project is to produce ontologies for MPEG-7 and related multimedia metadata initiatives.
The approach employed to produce the MPEG-7 Ontology is based on the XML Semantics Reuse methodology. This methodology is implemented by the ReDeFer project. It includes an XMLSchema to OWL mapping, XSD2OWL, used to generate the MPEG-7 OWL Ontology and a Classification Scheme to OWL mapping used to generate ontologies for some of the TVAnytime CS.
Moreover, these ontologies can be used to assist the XML2RDF mapping, which can map existing XML based MPEG-7 instance metadata to RDF. Some examples of this mappings are included below, in the "MPEG-7 to RDF" section.
This project is work in progress. For more information, please contact.
Ontologies for MPEG-7 and MPEG-7 Classification Schemes
- MPEG-7 Ontology for the MPEG-7 XMLSchemas:
- Last version (2005/03): OWL
- Content Ontology for the TVAnytime Content CS (TVAnytime_v0.1ContentCS).
- Last version (2005/03): OWL
- Format Ontology for the TVAnytime Format CS (TVAnytime_v0.1FormatCS).
- Last version (2005/03): OWL
Ontologies for other Classification Schemes
- OpenDrama Classification Scheme:
- Last version (2004/11): OWL
MPEG-7 to RDF
Simple XML MPEG-7 example:
- descriptionExample002.xml is mapped using XML2RDF to descriptionExample002.rdf
Related Publications
Semantic Web Interfaces for Newspaper Multimedia Content Management 

Perdrix, F.; García, R.; Gil, R.; Oliva, M.; Macías, J.A.
García, R.; Tsinaraki, C.; Celma, O.; Christodoulakis, S. García, R.; Perdrix, F.; Gil, R.; Oliva, M.
Troncy R., Celma O., Little S., García R., Tsinaraki C.
In Macías, J.A.; Granollers, T.; Latorre, P. (Eds.) New Trends on Human-Computer Interaction
pp. 24-32. Springer, 2009
ISBN 978-1-84882-351-8Multimedia Content Description using Semantic Web Languages
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In Kompatsiaris, Y.; Hobson, P. (Eds.) Semantic Multimedia and Ontologies: Theory and Applications, pp. 17-54. Springer, 2008
ISBN 978-1-84800-075-9The Semantic Web as a Newspaper Media Convergence Facilitator
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Journal of Web Semantics, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 151-161. Elsevier, 2008
ISSN 1570-8268MPEG-7 based Multimedia Ontologies: Interoperability Support or Interoperability Issue?
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Multimedia Annotation and Retrieval enabled by Shared Ontologies Workshop, MARESO'07
Ontological Infrastructure for a Semantic Newspaper 
García, R.; Perdrix, F. and Gil, R.
Semantic Web Annotations for Multimedia Workshop, SWAMM'06
World Wide Web Conference, Edinburgh, UK, 2006
Semantic Integration and Retrieval of Multimedia Metadata

García, R and Celma, O.
Presented at the 5th Knowledge Markup and Semantic Annotation Workshop, SemAnnot'05
CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 185, pp. 69-80, 2006
ISSN 1613-0073
