EuropeanaConnect: Media Annotation and Linked Data
The EuropeanaConnect Media Annotation Suite integrates Linked Data resource linkage into the user annotation process. Linked Data provides valuable context information which helps to make annotations searchable in different languages, by geographical location, or by other related or alternative terms, e.g. alternative names of places or people's nicknames.
Annotation RDF Sample
The XML snippet below shows a sample of how the EuropeanaConnect annotation suite exposes annotations as RDF.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rdf:RDF xmlns:a="http://lemo.mminf.univie.ac.at/annotation-core#" xmlns:ann="http://www.w3.org/2000/10/annotation-ns#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:h="http://www.w3.org/1999/xx/http#" xmlns:image="http://lemo.mminf.univie.ac.at/annotation-image#" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#" xmlns:rel="http://lemo.mminf.univie.ac.at/ann-relationship#" xmlns:scope="http://lemo.mminf.univie.ac.at/ann-tel#" xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:tr="http://www.w3.org/2001/03/thread#" xmlns:video="http://lemo.mminf.univie.ac.at/annotation-video#">
<rdf:Description rdf:about="http://dme.arcs.ac.at/annotation-middleware/Annotation/15ami2c3fx7">
<a:annotates rdf:resource="http://dme.ait.ac.at/samples/maps/wikimedia/Waldseemuller_map.jpg"/>
<ann:body>
<rdf:Description rdf:about="http://dme.arcs.ac.at/annotation-middleware/Annotation/body/15ami2c3fx7">
<h:ContentType>text/html</h:ContentType>
<h:ContentLength>276</h:ContentLength>
<h:Body rdf:parseType="Literal"><html><head><title>The Pillars of Hercules</title></head><body>In antiquity, the Strait of Gibraltar (which connects the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea) was known by the name "The Pillars of Hercules". This is the reason for this inscription!</body></html></h:Body>
</rdf:Description>
</ann:body>
<rdf:type rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2000/10/annotationType#Comment"/>
<rdf:type rdf:resource="http://lemo.mminf.univie.ac.at/annotation-core#Annotation"/>
<dc:title>The Pillars of Hercules</dc:title>
<a:author>test</a:author>
<dc:creator>test</dc:creator>
<a:modified>2010-08-31T11:08:06+02:00</a:modified>
<dc:date>2010-08-31T11:08:06+02:00</dc:date>
<a:created>2010-08-31T11:08:06+02:00</a:created>
<dc:format>image/jpeg</dc:format>
<a:label>In antiquity, the Strait of Gibraltar (which connects the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea) was known by the name "The Pillars of Hercules". This is the reason for this inscription!</a:label>
<scope:scope>PUBLIC</scope:scope>
<image:svg-fragment rdf:parseType="Literal"><svg:svg height="7522px" viewbox="0px 0px 13500px 7522px" width="13500px" xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><svg:defs xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><svg:symbol id="Polygon" xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><svg:polygon fill="none" points="52,203 0,124 186,0 238,80 52,203 " stroke="rgb(255,0,0)" stroke-width="0" xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"/></svg:symbol></svg:defs><svg:image xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" height="7522px" preserveAspectRatio="none" width="13500px" x="0px" xlink:href="http://dme.ait.ac.at/samples/maps/wikimedia/Waldseemuller_map.jpg" xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" y="0px"/><svg:use xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" height="203px" width="238px" x="3932px" xlink:href="#Polygon" xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" y="4109px"/></svg:svg></image:svg-fragment>
<a:fragment>http://dme.ait.ac.at/samples/maps/wikimedia/Waldseemuller_map.jpg#mp(~region(polygon(7916,8421,-52,-79,186,-124,52,80,-186,123)))</a:fragment>
<a:spatiallyContains rdf:resource="http://sws.geonames.org/2411585/"/>
<a:spatiallyContains rdf:resource="http://sws.geonames.org/2542007/"/>
<a:spatiallyContains rdf:resource="http://sws.geonames.org/2510769/"/>
<rdfs:seeAlso rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Strait_of_Gibraltar"/>
<rdfs:seeAlso rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Hercules"/>
<rdfs:seeAlso rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Atlantic_Ocean"/>
<rdfs:seeAlso rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Mediterranean_Sea"/>
</rdf:Description>
</rdf:RDF>
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