Extension of ImageNotion to Allow Privacy-Aware Image Sharing

A growing number of users in Web 2.0 based social network sites and photo sharing portals upload millions of images per day. In many cases, this leads to serious privacy threats. The images reveal not only the personal relationships and attitudes of the user who uploads the images, but those of other persons displayed in the images as well. In this paper, we propose a system architecture for privacy-aware image sharing. Our approach is based on the ImageNotion application, which combines automated processes to create high-quality semantic image annotations

G.: Imagenotion – collaborative semantic annotation of images and image parts and work integrated creation of ontologies

In this paper, we present the ImageNotion tool that allows for the semantic annotation of images and image parts together with the maturing of ontologies in a work integrated environment. The tool uses our ImageNotion methodology for ontology development

XI³ - Towards an Integration Web

The World Wide Web with its distributed and decentralized architecture has become the biggest information system ever. But it is fragmented into countless information sources which are required in combination for satisfying a certain information need. Many information integration systems were proposed during the last decade, allowing centralized access to distributed heterogeneous information sources and exploring some fundamental integration problems. Although these systems have been proven to be successful and solve some of the key integration problems, they do not scale up to the size of the web, and flexible reuse of the results by other communities (like the Semantic Web community) is still difficult to achieve. We strongly believe that integration in the large can become successful only if it is seen as a cooperative task in which reuse and extensibility become intrinsic. Like the paradigm of the Web itself, allowing provision and linkage of content by individuals, the Integration Web has to provide the means for the provision and linkage of integration steps by individuals. In analogy to the distribution of information providers on the Web, we thus envision the establishment of an infrastructure for integration services providers. In this paper we present the overall approach of XMLbased Intelligent Integration of Information (XI). The reference architecture and the core services are explained. Built-in reuse and extensibility are exemplified. We illustrate our approach with the help of the knowledge intensive task of hardware administration

User-Friendly Access to Structured Environmental Data

Part 4: Semantics and EnvironmentInternational audienceWe sketch the HIPPOLYTOS and the KOIOS system prototypes for simple, keyword-based search in structured environmental data. Built on top of a commercial Spatial Data Warehouse software, the prototypes apply lightweight Semantic Web techniques to facilitate search in complex environmental information systems

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Report on Requirements Analysis and State of the Art

This deliverable delineates the state of the art of on process, business, data and epistemological ontologies that are to be used within the DIP 1 project. It presents the Semantic Web Service Usage process as a starting point to motivate the discussion, and to point out where each of the different ontologies fits. Further it introduces the different tools that currently help realizing the different parts of such usage process, and its relation with the different ontologies presented in the state-of-the-art, if any. Finally the requirements in terms of Service description and service requirements for DIP and Workpackage 3 of the DIP project 2 are presented. The intended audience of the deliverable is mainly the DIP project partners, in particular those involved in Workpackage 3 and Workpackage 4. Nevertheless, anyone interested on Service description and how semantically achieve if, may find it of interest. In regard to the impact of this deliverable for DIP, it provides a detailed state of the art on the technology available to describe Services, pointing out the lack or young state o