Applying Semantic Technology to Film Production
Film production is an information- and knowledge-intensive industrial process which is undergoing dramatic changes in response to evolving digital technology. The Deep Film Access Project (DFAP) has been researching the potential role of semantic technolo
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Abstract. Film production is an information- and knowledge-intensive industrial process which is undergoing dramatic changes in response to evolving digital technology. The Deep Film Access Project (DFAP) has been researching the potential role of semantic technology in film production, focussing on how a semantic infrastructure could contribute to the integration of the data and metadata generated during the film production lifecycle. This paper reports on the preliminary development of a knowledge framework to support the automatic management of feature film digital assets, based on a workflow analysis supported by an OWL ontology. We discuss the challenges of building on previous work and present examples of ontological modelling of key film production concepts in a semantically rich hybrid ontological framework.
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Film production is an information- and knowledge-intensive industrial process, spanning several phases from development to archiving to re-purposing, which is undergoing dramatic changes in response to evolving digital technology. In this context the Deep Film Access Project (DFAP)[2] has been focussing on the potential role of semantic technology in film production, in particular on how a semantic infrastructure could contribute to the integration of the data and metadata generated during the film production lifecycle. An important research objective of DFAP is the development of a knowledge framework, consisting of a workflow analysis and an ontology, to support the automatic management of feature film digital assets. To facilitiate this, the project has benefited from the consultation with the independent film production company, Adventure Pictures Ltd., who provided access to a full set of digital assets for their recent production Ginger & Rosa (Dir. Sally Potter, 2012), their A previous version of this paper appeared at http://2015.wasabi-ws.org/papers/ wasabi15 3.pdf and https://www.academia.edu/12293840/Applying Semantic Technology to Film Production. c Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 F. Gandon et al. (Eds.): ESWC 2015, LNCS 9341, pp. 445–453, 2015. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-25639-9 55
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interactive film production website SP-ARK1 , and discussions with key practioners involved in the production process. This data, metadata and expertise were analysed to develop a preliminary understanding of the knowledge underlying the film production process, which was then represented as a workflow chart and coded as an extension of pre-existing foundational and core ontologies in the Web Ontology Language (OWL)2 using the ontology editor Prot´eg´e 3 . This process offered insights into a number of issues that need to be taken into account when automating a business process such as film production using semantic technology. It
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