Improving findability through multidimensional organization of content
We specify and justify, a proposed novel annotation scheme for describing real world situations. The motivation for the scheme is that content is about situations and therefore, the description of situations is crucial for finding any content relating to such situations. The idea is inspired by Richard S. Wurman's LATCH concept of organizing information. The scheme can be used to annotate travel offers, public events, activity streams, discussion threads etc.
We identified time, location, participant, category and hierarchy as the most important dimensions and describe for each of the dimensions, how annotations can be exploited independently of specific domain models or ontologies. For the dimensions of an annotation, we describe briefly its main elements and provide initial specifications as XML-Schema and annotation examples.
In our next steps we plan to define rules that can be applied to specific dimensions and we describe requirements and features that would be needed to create semantic components to exploit the annotation model for presentation and direct user interaction.
Authors:
Rupert Westenthaler, Andreas Gruber (Salzburg Research)