Authors:
H. Castro
and
A. P. Alves
Affiliation:
Universidade Porto, Portugal
Keyword(s):
MPEG-21, MPEG-7, DID, Semantic Web, Internet, Metadata, Information Object, Symbol, Concept, Sensation, Perception, Comprehension, Cognition, Brain.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Applications and Case-studies
;
Artificial Intelligence
;
Collaboration and e-Services
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Semantic Web
;
Soft Computing
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
The amount of on-line information content is growing without apparent limits. The lack of a coherent and consistent structure for its expression leads to increasing problems in terms of desired information retrieval and rendering. Multiple initiatives have been undertaken to bring forth such a global coherence. Nonetheless, it is still unattained. The informational landscape is highly fragmented in terms of the formats of the information object (IO) and their semantic interconnection, which is still incipient. This work exploits a loose and common sense based analogy between the Internet and the brain for the development of a new and versatile, MPEG 21 based data structuring format (termed Cognitive Object Format), for the description of information objects, equating them to cerebral memories. The objective is to enable an easier and more pervasive human (machine aided) or automatic interpretation and access to IO and their meanings in order to contribute to the development of a cohe
rent base for their declaration and structuring.
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