Ankara 2007


The Age of Image predates and is currently
contemporaneous with the Information Age. In
our times the explosive expansion of Web 2.0
Social Space, typified by the phenomena of
De.licio.us, Flickr, MySpace, YouTube..., and the
concomitant emergence of folksonomy, present
interesting challenges in the management of this
information. One key process by which to
accomplish this in Social Space, is the wedding
of folksonomy (of the people) with ontology (of
the machine). Such a wedding must necessarily
be conducted in the shared physicality of the
word, of language. In this respect, WordNet
together with OWL, play the role of matchmaker.
But the same Social Space also provides an
opportunity for natural folksonomical tagging by
digiFoto (key)image. The research harness for
experimental keyimage tagging consists of Flickr
as the main (digiFoto image) Social Space
testbed and De.licio.us as the auxillary outreach
secondary Social Space. Protégé Editor with
OWL-DL provides the support for the bridge from
keyimage to the formal ontology. The primary end
user application domain is the keyimage tagging
of paintings in an online art gallery.

Keywords: accessibility, art, folksonomy, keyimage, ontology.

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