DME has developed a tool that integrates a number of state-of-the-art technologies: the YUMA Universal Multimedia Annotator. YUMA provides a uniform annotation framework for different types of multimedia content, based on established Web standards. The YUMA annotation client is entirely browser based and provides free-text annotation and semantic tagging capabilities for images as well as audio and video content. For the annotation of digitised maps, it additionally provides basic geographically-related features such as place search or export of annotations to a geographical data format. YUMA can be provided as a hosted solution through our Software as a Service (SaaS) model. See our online demonstrator here:

http://dme.ait.ac.at/annotation/

Reference projects:

• BRICKS (completed, supported by a grant from the EU FP6-IST program)
• SemDAV (completed, supported by a grant from the FFG FIT-IT program)
• TELplus (completed, supported by a grant from the EU eContentplus program)
• EuropeanaConnect (supported by a grant from the EU eContentplus program)

Publications:

R. Simon, B. Haslhofer, J. Jung:
"Annotations, Tags & Linked Data - Metadata Enrichment in Online Map, Collections through Volunteer-Contributed Information";
Vortrag: 6th International Workshop on Digital Technologies in Cartographic Heritage, The Hague; 07.04.2011 - 08.04.2011; in: "6th International Workshop on Digital Technologies in Cartographic Heritage", E. Livieratos, P. Falchetta, C. Monti, G. Tolias (Hrg.); e-Perimetron, Vol. 6 Nr. 3 (2011), ISSN: 1790-3769; Paper-Nr. 3, 8 S.

R. Simon, B. Haslhofer, W. Robitza, E. Momeni:
"Semantically Augmented Annotations in Digitized Map Collections";
Vortrag: ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Ottawa, Kanada; 13.06.2011 - 17.06.2011; in: "Proceedings of the 2011 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries", ACM, New York, USA (2011), ISBN: 978-1-4503-0744-4; S. 199 - 202.

Rainer Schmidt and Matthias Rella.
"An Approach for Processing Large and Non-Uniform Media Objects on MapReduce-based Clusters";
In: Chunxiao Xing, Fabio Crestani, Andreas Rauber (Eds.). Digital Libraries: For Cultural Heritage, Knowledge Dissemination, and Future Creation - 13th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2011, Beijing, China, October 24-27, 2011; ISBN: 978-3-642-24825-2, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 7008, Springer, 2011.

Diego Ceccarelli, Sergiu Gordea, Claudio Lucchese, Franco Maria Nardini and Gabriele Tolomei:
"Improving Europeana Search Experience Using Query Logs";
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2011, Volume 6966, Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, Pages 384-395