Why is it called Linked Media Framework?

The idea is a kind of combination of concepts from Linked Data, Media Management and Enterprise Knowledge Management (from KiWi). Up till now, the Linked Data world is read-only and primarily concerned with the structured data associated with a resource (regardless of whether this data is represented in RDF or visualised in HTML). However, in order to build more interactive mashups, it would make sense to also allow updates to the data in Linked Data servers. And in enterprise settings, it makes sense to have a unified means to manage both structured data and human-readable content for a resource. For example, a resource might represent a video on the internet, and depending on how I access the video I want to get either the video itself or the structured metadata about the video (e.g. a list of RDF links to DBPedia for all persons depicted in the video).

Our Linked Media idea tries to address both issues:

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Media Annotations

This document defines the Ontology for Media Resources 1.0. In this document, the term "ontology" is used in its broadest possible definition: a core vocabulary. The Ontology for Media Resources 1.0 is both a core vocabulary (a set of properties describing media resources) and its mapping to a set of metadata formats currently describing media resources published on the Web. Mappings to formats for media resources non available on the Web have not been taken into account in this version of the Ontology. The purpose of the mappings is to provide an interoperable set of metadata, thereby enabling different applications to share and reuse these metadata. The set of properties of the Ontology for Media Resources 1.0 was selected with respect to the most commonly adopted set of elements from metadata formats currently in use to describe media resources.

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Media Fragments

This document describes the Media Fragments 1.0 specification. It specifies the syntax for constructing media fragment URIs and explains how to handle them when used over the HTTP protocol. The syntax is based on the specification of particular name-value pairs that can be used in URI fragment and URI query requests to restrict a media resource to a certain fragment.

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