Semantic Web Atelier

Report from SWAt 11

pscheier — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 07:43:45 +0000

Yesterday evening SWAt 11 took place in Graz, Austria. We had one great talk from Martin Höffernig about the architecture and implementation for a semantic validation service for multimedia metadata documents called VAMP. Martin had support from Werner Bailer and Georg Thallinger who also described the broader context of the work in detail.

So what does VAMP do? In short words: This validation service allows to verify the (partial) semantic correctness of an XML file. Take for example the temporal decomposition of a video file described in XML. You’ve scenes (longer sequences of video frames), which are grouping shots (shorter sequences of video frames). One semantic constraints is that no shot start point (time in the video) can occur before the start point of the parent scene. The same goes for end points: With the parent scene all child shots should end. However in distributed environment one can never be sure. Also automatic extraction routines also fail to detect the exact frame number, where shot boundaries are found. A semantic validation service provides means to detect such semantic errors and that’s what VAMP does.

More information can be found on the VAMP website and I think Martin Höffernig, Werner Bailer and Georg Thallinger are open to questions

SWAt 11: Call For Participation

pscheier — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:50:08 +0000

While there has been a long break (since April ‘07) the next Semantic Web Atelier is already planned and on its way. Werner Bailer, Michael Hausenblas & Martin Höffernig (Joanneum Research) present VAMP - A semantic validation service for MPEG-7 Profiles Description.

The SWAt is scheduled on Oct. 17th 2007 starting at 17.3o in Graz, at the Know-Center. We’d like to invite everyone (people from industry and research as well as lecturers and students) to participate. For further questions either comment this entry or write a mail to swat know-center at.

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New website!

Peter Scheir — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 11:41:58 +0000

Welcome to the new website of the Semanitc Web Artelier (SWAt)! SWAt is a series of events on Semantic Web and Web 2.0 that is jointly hosted by:

Mathias Lux from Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt
Peter Scheir from Graz University of Technology
Armin Ulbrich from Know-Center Graz

We have switched to this Weblog to allow us for easier editing of content and to allow you to subscribed to our news via RSS. You can find the slides from the past 10 SWAt events at our old site.

See you soon at our next event!