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Multimedia tool suite for the visualization of drama heritage metadata

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This paper presents a multimedia tool suite for, on the one hand, the annotation of metadata that encode the dramatic qualities of cultural heritage items, and, on the other, the visualization of such metadata for drama analysis and didactics. The tool suite relies upon an ontology of drama to devise an annotation schema for the metadata concerning the dramatic qualities. The two major modules of the tool suite are a web-based platform, that allows for the insertion of the annotation metadata, and a visualization program for the interactive exploration of such metadata, respectively. The tool suite was tested on the cross-media studies of drama analysis and teaching of drama structure through the application to classical examples.

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  1. http://www.tei-c.org/

  2. http://www.europeana.eu/

  3. http://maphub.github.io/api/

  4. http://googleancientplaces.wordpress.com/about/

  5. http://pelagios-project.blogspot.it/p/about-pelagios.html

  6. http://www.imdb.com/

  7. http://www.contextus.net/stories

  8. http://visual.ly/memento-scene-timeline

  9. http://visual.ly/inception-timeline-visualisation

  10. See, e.g., the commercial products Final Draft, Movie Magic, Celtix, Script It!

  11. http://www.writersstore.com/dramatica-pro-story-development-software/

  12. See [29] for an introduction to computational ontologies.

  13. This example is also interesting to point out that the decision to annotate a fragment of drama hinges on the interpretation of the annotator. Other dialogues, even in a shakespearian drama, are annotated as a single incident; but in this case, that is the climax of scene, the two incidents result from a complex decision making process of the two characters and so the annotator decided to keep them apart, though, as we see below, they are connected through the two goals in conflict.

  14. See the portal http://www.ontologyportal.org

  15. CADMOS is an acronym for Character–centred Annotation of Dramatic Media ObjectS. Project description at the http://cadmos.di.unito.it.

  16. http://www.ontotext.com/owlim.

  17. http://www.w3schools.com/rdf/rdf_reference.asp).

  18. We have used Pellet, http://clarkparsia.com/pellet/.

  19. http://d3js.org/

  20. http://processing.org/

  21. http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/1005873

  22. Synsets are groups of words that can be viewed as cognitive synonyms. Each synset expresses a distinct concept.

  23. http://www.readwritethink.org/

  24. http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/drama-30012.html?tab=2#tabs

  25. Nevertheless our visualization could be more effective if the timeline were expressed also in terms of frames and timecode to give teachers and students a more direct access to the audiovisual document.

  26. In Fig. 10, (X) and (Y) represent two different characters

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Lombardo, V., Pizzo, A. Multimedia tool suite for the visualization of drama heritage metadata. Multimed Tools Appl 75, 3901–3932 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-014-2066-3

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