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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-US" lang="en-US"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/><title>Multimedia Semantics Incubator Group</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.w3.org/2005/10/w3cdoc.css" type="text/css" media="screen"/><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.w3.org/Guide/pubrules-style.css"/><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.w3.org/2006/02/charter-style.css"/></head><body><div id="template"><ul id="navbar" style="font-size: .6em"><li><a href="#scope">Scope</a></li><li><a href="#deliverables">Deliverables</a></li><li><a href="#dependencies">Dependencies</a></li><li><a href="#communication">Communication</a></li><li><a href="#decisions">Decision Policy</a></li><li><a href="#patentpolicy">Patent
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Policy</a></li><li><a href="#additional">Additional Information</a></li><li><a href="#about">About this Charter</a></li></ul>
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<p><a href="http://www.w3.org/" shape="rect"><img alt="W3C" height="48" src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/w3c_home" width="72"/></a> <a class="domainlogo" href="/2005/Incubator/" shape="rect"><img src="/2005/Incubator/images/incubator" alt="Incubator Activity"/></a></p>
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<h1 id="title">Multimedia Semantics Incubator Group Charter</h1>
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<p>The <strong>mission</strong> of the <a
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href="Overview.html">Multimedia Semantics XG</a>, part of the <a
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href="..">W3C Incubator Activity</a>, is as follows:</p>
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<ol>
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<li>Show how metadata interoperability can be achieved by using the
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Semantic Web technologies to integrate existing multimedia metadata
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standards. Thus, the goal of the XG is NOT to invent new multimedia
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metadata formats, but to leverage and combine existing approaches.</li>
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<li>Show, in addition to the interoperability advantages, the added value
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of the formal semantics provided by the Semantic Web. The XG will
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describe practical applications and services that provide extra
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functionality by using, for example, subsumption reasoning or rule-based
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approaches. These applications could be multi-platform, i.e. adapted to
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any device that accesses the web.</li>
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<li>Provide best practices for annotating and using multimedia content on
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the Web, based on practical use cases that identify the users, the type
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of content and the type of metadata that they want to provide.</li>
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</ol>
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<p><a href="http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/39139/join">Join</a> the
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Multimedia Semantics Incubator Group.</p>
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<table class="summary-table">
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<tr>
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<th rowspan="1" colspan="1">End date</th>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">1 May 2007</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<th rowspan="1" colspan="1">Confidentiality</th>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Proceedings are <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/comm.html#confidentiality-levels" shape="rect">
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public
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</a></td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<th rowspan="1" colspan="1">Initial Chairs</th>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">
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The Incubator Group will be co-chaired by Jeff Pan (University of Aberdeen) <jpan@csd.abdn.ac.uk>
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and Raphaël Troncy (CWI Amsterdam) <Raphael.Troncy@cwi.nl>. A new co-chair with an industrial
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background might replace one of the academic chair during the lifetime of the XG.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<th rowspan="1" colspan="1">Sponsoring Members</th>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">
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<ul>
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<li><a href="http://www.image.ntua.gr/">IVML-NTUA</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.cwi.nl/">CWI</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/">University of Aberdeen</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.umd.edu/">University of Maryland</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.dfki.de/web/">DFKI</a></li>
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</ul>
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</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<th rowspan="1" colspan="1">Usual Meeting Schedule</th>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">
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<p>Regular meetings will be held fortnightly using the W3C's Zakim
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telephone/IRC facility. The mailing lists will provide an important part of
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the communication both internally and externally. In an effort to minimize
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costs, face to face meetings will be co-located with other meetings that a
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significant number of participants are attending. Potential candidates for
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co-locating face to face meetings include the <a
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href="http://www.samt2006.org/">SAMT2006</a> or <a
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href="http://iswc2006.semanticweb.org/">ISWC2006</a> conferences.</p>
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</td>
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</tr>
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</table>
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<div class="scope">
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<h2 id="scope">Scope</h2>
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<p>Interest for the publication of multimedia content in the Web is growing.
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Museums, archives, TV channels, private companies and personal users all
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publish on the media content on the Web: images videos, music, etc. These
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media contents usually come with some metadata (created manually,
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semi-automatically or automatically), which are generated by some processes
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in the life-cycle of multimedia documents, including pre-production,
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production, post-production, processing, archiving, search and retrieval,
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browsing, delivery, presentation, navigation and posting.</p>
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<p>The need for standard representation multimedia metadata is recognized in
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a wide variety of different applications, covering both professional and
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personal usage of image data. Several standardization efforts tried to
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provide formats for multimedia metadata, covering different types of
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providers, users, processes and of metadata categories (examples include
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MPEG-7, MediaRSS, ID3, EXIF, VRA, various microformats etc). Unfortunately,
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the users are confused from all the above technologies and standards;
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consequently, multimedia contents in the Web usually are not annotated and
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thus the Web services concerning multimedia content are rather limited.</p>
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</div>
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<div>
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<h2 id="deliverables">Deliverables</h2>
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<ol>
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<li>XG Report on using Semantic Web languages and tools for multimedia
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metadata interoperability</li>
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<li>XG Report with use cases showing best practices for annotation
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multimedia content on the Web and the advantages of having explicit
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semantics for such annotations.</li>
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</ol>
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</div>
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<div>
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<h2 id="dependencies">Dependencies</h2>
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<ul>
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<li>The Multimedia Semantics XG is planning to continue work on the drafts
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produced by the <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/MM/">Multimedia Task
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force</a> of the <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/">Semantic Web Best
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Practices and Deployment Working Group</a> and/or use these drafts as
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input to the deliverables produced by this XG.</li>
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<li>The Multimedia Semantics XG is planning to align its work with the <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/wcl/wcl-charter-20060208">Content
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Label XG</a> and potentially other upcoming XGs in the area of media
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metadata. It is also expected to cooperate closely with the <a
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href="http://www.acemedia.org/aceMedia/reference/multimedia_ontology/index.html">multimedia
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ontology requirement work</a> initiated by Paola Hobson and Yiannis
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Kompatsiaris.</li>
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</ul>
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</div>
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<div class="communication">
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<h2 id="communication">Communication</h2>
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<p>This group primarily conducts its work on the public
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mailing list public-xg-mmsem@w3.org (<a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xg-mmsem/">archive</a>).
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</p>
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<p>All technical work is discussed on a public mailing list and
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on public Web pages. Please note that the proceedings of this Incubator Group
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(mailing list archives, minutes, etc.) are publicly visible.</p>
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<p>Information about the group (deliverables, participants,
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face-to-face
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meetings, teleconferences, etc.) is
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available from the Multimedia Semantics Incubator Group home
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page.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="decisions">
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<h2 id="decisions">Decision Policy</h2>
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<p>As explained in the Process Document (<a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process/policies#Consensus" shape="rect">section
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3.3</a>), this group will seek to make decisions when there
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is consensus. When the Chair puts a question and observes
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dissent, after due consideration of different opinions, the
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Chair should record a decision (possibly after a formal vote)
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and any objections, and move on.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="patent">
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<h2 id="patentpolicy">Patent
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Policy</h2>
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<p>This Incubator Group provides an opportunity to share
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perspectives on the topic addressed by this charter. W3C
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reminds Incubator Group participants of their obligation to
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comply with patent disclosure obligations as set out in
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<a href="/Consortium/Patent-Policy/#sec-Disclosure" shape="rect">Section
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6</a> of the W3C Patent Policy. While the Incubator Group
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does not produce Recommendation-track documents, when
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Incubator Group participants review Recommendation-track
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specifications from Working Groups, the patent disclosure
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obligations do apply.</p>
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<p>Incubator Groups have as a goal to produce work that can
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be implemented on a Royalty Free basis, as defined in the
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy/" shape="rect">W3C
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Patent Policy</a>.</p>
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<div title="wg|ig|xg">
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<p>For more information about disclosure obligations for
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this group, please see the <a href="/2004/01/pp-impl/" shape="rect">W3C
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Patent Policy Implementation</a>.</p>
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</div>
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</div>
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<div>
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<h2 id="additional">Additional Information</h2>
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<ul>
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<li>Impact of the work produced by this XG would be significantly enlarged
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if the major multimedia tool vendors would agree to add support for
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Semantic Web-enabled metadata to their products. The XG will therefore
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actively seek industrial support and participation.</li>
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</ul>
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</div>
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<h2 id="about">About this Charter</h2>
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<p>This charter for the Multimedia Semantics Incubator Group has been created according to
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the <a href="/2005/Incubator/procedures" shape="rect">Incubator
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Group Procedures documentation</a>. In the event of a
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conflict between this document or the provisions of any charter
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and the W3C Process, the W3C Process shall take precedence.</p>
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<hr/>
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<address>
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<a href="http://homepages.cwi.nl/~troncy/">Raphaël Troncy</a>, <a
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href="mailto:mmxg-list@cwi.nl">mmxg-list@cwi.nl</a>
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</address>
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<p class="copyright"><a rel="Copyright" href="/Consortium/Legal/ipr-notice#Copyright" shape="rect">Copyright</a>©
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2006 <a href="/" shape="rect"><acronym title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</acronym></a>
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<sup>®</sup> (<a href="http://www.csail.mit.edu/" shape="rect"><acronym title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology">MIT</acronym></a> ,
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<a href="http://www.ercim.org/" shape="rect"><acronym title="European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics">ERCIM</acronym></a>
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, <a href="http://www.keio.ac.jp/" shape="rect">Keio</a>), All Rights
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Reserved.</p>
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<p>$Date: 2006/05/16 07:59:24 $</p>
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