An Architecture for Open Cross-Media Annotation Services

The emergence of new media technologies in combination with enhanced information sharing functionality offered by the Web provides new possibilities for cross-media annotations. This in turn raises new challenges in terms of how a true integration across different types of media can be achieved and how we can develop annotation services that are sufficiently flexible and extensible to cater for new document formats as they emerge. We present a general model for cross-media annotation services and describe how it was used to define an architecture that supports extensibility at the data level as well as within authoring and visualisation tools.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: WISE
• Authors: Beat Signer, Moira C. Norrie
• Keywords: Annotation Services, Cross-media Annotation, Cross-media Annotation Services, Internet Technology, WISE 2009