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CFP: Third International Workshop on Linked Media (LiME 2015)
http://www.linkedtv.eu/event/LiME2015/
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This full day workshop is co-located with the WWW 2015 conference held in
Florence, Italy on 18-22 May 2015.

*Deadlines*:
- Submission deadline: Jan 24, 2015 (23:59 Hawaii Standard Time)
- Paper acceptance notification: Feb 22, 2015
- Paper final copy hard deadline: Mar 8, 2015

*Goals of the workshop*
If the future Web will be able to fully use the scale and quality of online
media, a Web scale layer of structured media annotation is needed, which we
call Linked Media. This 3rd international workshop on Linked Media (LiME
2015), building on two successful events, aims at promoting the principles
of Linked Media on the Web by gathering semantic media researchers, media
owners, and media service providers to exchange current research and
development work on online media description creation, publication, and
processing. Specifically, we aim to promote the core principles of Linked
Media and explore their value through demonstrations: the online
publication of structured media descriptions, making media more easily
shared, queried and re-used. This will offer a wide range of possibilities
for various stakeholders in the creative industries.

Of specific relevance to the WWW community is the fact LiME offers a
platform to demonstrate application of the work in and inform ongoing
working groups in this area: Web&TV Interest Group and Presentation API
working group (dealing with multimedia in HTML5) and the W3C Annotations
working group (focusing on the Open Annotation Model). There’s great value
of encouraging cross-fertilization between these working groups and with
the broader WWW community.

*Workshop topics and themes*
Today’s Web is a rich media Web - non-textual content is often now the
first destination of online agents rather than HTML/textual resources. As a
result, access to structured annotation of the online media is increasingly
important for new Web applications capable of media search, retrieval,
adaptation and presentation. Yet, the online media annotation space is
still limited, fragmented and lacking in consensus for building Web tools
and interfaces to support it. The W3C Ontology for Media Resources provides
mappings between 18 different multimedia metadata schema or standards and
established a first step towards a common schema model which now requires
championing in the research and industry communities. The least common
denominator approach followed by the W3C group has lead to a small and
useful vocabulary that fails to support more advanced use cases that
require to describe the multimedia content at a fragment level and beyond
simple tagging. We see opportunity in the uptake of the Open Annotation
Model within a W3C Annotations WG and want to promote its usage for media
description combined with Linked Data.

If the future Web will be able to fully use the scale and quality of online
media, a Web scale layer of structured media annotation is needed, which we
call Linked Media, which is inspired by the Linked Data movement for making
structured descriptions of resources more available online. Mobile and
tablet devices, as well as connected TV introduce novel application domains
that benefit from broad understanding and acceptance of Linked Media
standards. LiME 2015 aims at promoting the principles of Linked Media on
the Web by gathering media owning stakeholders and semantic media
researchers to exchange current research and development work on online
media description creation, publication, and processing.

Important aspects to discuss revolve around (1) emerging approaches to
online media description, (2) extracting such descriptions and linking them
to external resources, and (3) showcasing practical use cases in this
domain, also covering interaction aspects for single and group users.

The workshop topics include, but are not limited to:
1. Approaches to online media descriptions & annotation
- Aligning the fragmented approaches to online media description, its
publication, and processing;
- Tools and approaches to lower the cost of creating structured
descriptions of online media resources;
- New methods of automatic, real time, metadata extraction of any online
media content (including live streams);
- Ideas how to incorporate Linked Data into media description (and benefit
from the additional metadata of the Linked Data cloud);
- Use of the Open Annotation model for describing online media.
2. Methods for enriching and hyperlinking media
- Tools and approaches to search and retrieval of online media based on its
structured description, scaling to the Web;
- New methods for automatically assessing the suitability of (non-trusted)
content for interweaving (e.g. violence detection, nudity detection), and
publishing such assessments;
- Methods and tools for automatically link media to media at the fragment
level, including evaluation on standard corpora such as MediaEval;
- Addressing issues of trust, quality and rights of online media;
3. Presentation, interaction, evaluation and new business models for Linked
Media
- New Web applications making use of Linked Media, also across different
platforms;
- Evaluations of innovative services with end-users;
- Approaches to tracking user interaction with media (and exploiting this
knowledge to enrich annotations);
- Emergence of new business opportunities.

*Submission*
Submissions should not exceed 6 pages and are to be formatted according to
the ACM SIG proceedings template (
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) and submitted
to https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lime2015. Papers should be
submitted in PDF format. We encourage various types of submission:
- full papers (max 6 pages) for mature work which has been subject to
evaluation
- demo submissions (max 2 pages) for demos, software and platforms which
may be able to support a part of the Linked Media ecosystem
The workshop proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Online
LIbrary as part of the companion volume of the WWW proceedings.

Programme Committee TBA

Organizers:
- Lyndon Nixon, Modul University, AT
- Raphaël Troncy, EURECOM, FR
- Johan Oomen, Sound & Vision, NL

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Kind regards,

*Erwin Verbruggen*
Project lead R&D

Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Media Parkboulevard 1, 1217 WE  Hilversum | Postbus 1060, 1200 BB  Hilversum |
beeldengeluid.nl <http://www.beeldengeluid.nl/>


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