Canonical Processes of Semantically Annotated Media Production

While many multimedia systems allow the association of semantic annotations with media assets, there is no agreed way of sharing these among systems. This chapter identifies a small number of fundamental processes of media production, which the author terms canonical processes, which can be supported in semantically aware media production tools. The chapter begins with a brief description of all canonical processes. Then, in order to illustrate canonical processes and connect them to the themes of this book, it describes two existing systems related to the personal photo management use case: CeWe Color Photo Book and SenseCam. CeWe Color Photo Book allows users to design a photo book on a home computer and have it printed by commercial photo finishers. SenseCam introduces different approaches to structuring, searching, and browsing personal image collections, and tries to automatically locate important or significant events in a person’s life.