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OntoMedia (OM) Ontology
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Developed at ECS, University of Southampton by
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K Faith Lawrence
Mike Jewell
Mischa Tuffield
[interest: description of online fiction]
[interest: automated soundtrack generation]
[interest: description of life narratives]
OM Stories Ontology
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Development lead by Mike Jewell
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Intended to fully integrate with FOAF, Event and Timeline ontologies
See: http://contextus.net/
  Existing top-level ontologies did not deal well with:
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Non-real world assumptions
Multiple, cross-linked conceptual worlds
Inexact/Referential details
Multiple interpretations
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<!‐‐Sleeping
Beauty‐‐>
<rdf:Descrip;on
rdf:about="#SB_Kiss">
<rdfs:label>Sleeping
Beauty.Kiss</rdfs:label>
<rdf:type>
<owl:Class
rdf:about="&omea;Sex"/>
</rdf:type>
<ome:exists‐in
rdf:resource="#SleepingBeauty"/>
<ome:causes
rdf:resource="#SB_Wake_Up"/>
<ome:has‐object‐en;ty
rdf:resource="#SB_Princess_lips"/>
<ome:has‐subject‐en;ty
rdf:resource="#SB_Prince_lips"/>
</rdf:Descrip;on>
<rdf:Descrip;onrdf:about="#SB_Wake_Up">
<rdfs:label>SleepingBeauty.PrincessAwakes</rdfs:label>
<rdf:type>
<owl:Classrdf:about="&ome;Transforma;on"/>
</rdf:type>
<ome:exists‐in
rdf:resource="#SleepingBeauty"/>
<ome:caused_by
rdf:resource="#SB_Kiss"/>
<ome:has‐subject‐en;ty
rdf:resource="#SB_Princess"/>
<ome:from
rdf:resource="#Asleep"/>
<ome:to
rdf:resource="#Conscious"/>
</rdf:Descrip;on>
Sun, Moon and Talia
Sleeping Beauty
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King sees Talia asleep/dead
  Prince sees sleeping woman
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King is overcome by beauty
  (Prince is overcome by beauty)
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King has sex with Talia
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King leaves
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Talia gives birth to twins
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Baby sucks splinter from finger
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Talia wakes up
  Prince kisses sleeping woman
  Sleeping woman wakes up
'Lord of the Ring: The Two Towers'
"So that is the answer to all the riddles!
The One Ring that was thought to have
perished from the world. And Boromir
tried to take it by force? And you escaped?
And ran all the way – to me! And here in
the wild I have you: two halflings, and a
host of men at my call, and the Ring of
Rings. A pretty stroke of fortune! A
chance for Faramir, Captain of Gondor, to
show his quality!"
- Faramir
  Paul Rissen at the BBC Future Media & Technology
  BBC has long history of creative output
  Audio
  Video
  Text
  … and now the Web
People
Places
Events
Factors
  Michael O. Jewell, Goldsmith's University of London
  Annotation of media an issue
  Focus on screenplays
  Create automated metadata
  Sacrifice accuracy for speed ?
  Create base store of information which can be improved
  Performance Text Module
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Cast Lists
Roles
Speakers
Stage Directions
  Established
  Existing tools and knowledge
  Hundreds of resources
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Dbpedia (from Wikipedia)
Geographical information
Songs and bands
Species
People
  Over 1000,000,000 triples available
  Why?
  Electronic texts: People, places, events
  Linked data: People, places, events
  We can augment electronic text with the wealth of
knowledge on the Semantic Web
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How?
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RDFa (RDF in Attributes)
A means to add machine-readable hints to XHTML via attributes in elements
For example:
<stage type="location">
<p property="dc:title"
about="[ds:Control_Room]"
typeof="[loc:Room]">
INTERIOR – CONTROL ROOM
</p>
</stage>
  Dark Star
  Dark Star dataset as TEI, N3, and XML
  (http://contextus.net/datastores)
  SPARQL endpoint
  (http://contextus.net/sparql/)
  Shakespeare
  Midsummer Night's Dream (other plays coming soon)
  TEI from Perseus Digital Library
  Has to have at least two (named) female characters
  Who talk to each other
  About something besides a man…
'The Rule' In Dykes to Watch Out For
(Alison Bechdel, 1985)
  Crowd sourcing the corrections - many hands make
light work
  Potentially vast dataset
  Find repeated structures within the data
  Find consensus interpretation
  Opportunity to study the audience response
  Find points of agreement/contention
  Can trends in interpretation by links to trends in the
audience composition?
For more information:
Website: http://contextus.net/
Mailing List: http://groups.google.com/group/digital-narrative
IRC: http://irc.freenode.net#ontomedia
Questions?