Various image annotation work

• 'Codepiction' - annotating whole or parts of an image about people
• Exif data
• A recent project: W3photo - annotating WWW conference images

Fun stuff

• Jim Ley's SVG image annotator
• Masahide Kanzaki's image annotator
• Greg Elin's image annotator
• Libby Miller's image annotator
• Mindswap image annotator.
• Searching images by person, object, event (images from the 2004 Technical Plenary)

Vocabularies

• Foaf - 'depicts', 'depiction' - for people, objects (Wordnet)
• Exif - various vocabs, new workspace
• Parts of image annotation - new vocab based on Jim Ley's SVG work, Jennifer Golbeck's ontology (see description, OWL ontologies)

But mainly - mixing vocabularies from many places - Creative Commons, Dublin Core, RDFiCal, Geo

Example RDF

See W3PhotoVocabs

<foaf:Image rdf:about='http://www94.web.cern.ch/WWW94/Images/ClosingPanel/Closingpanel5.gif'>
 <image:hasRegion>
   <image:Rectangle rdf:ID='p4'>
    <image:coords>380,110 498,205</image:coords>
    <dc:description>Dan Connolly writing something</dc:description>
     <image:regionDepicts>
      <foaf:Person>
       <foaf:name>Dan Connolly</foaf:name>
	<foaf:mbox_sha1sum>94b6eb0c835f928c5ed565dc3ed1a355ac1b41e5</foaf:mbox_sha1sum>
      </foaf:Person>
     </image:regionDepicts>
   </image:Rectangle>
  </image:hasRegion>
</foaf:Image>

also rights and creation information for both the metadata about the image and the image itself; dc title, date, description.

W3Photo project

• Distributed - many creation tools, many servers
• Document-level checking
• Licensing
• Identification of people, events
• User interface, trust