VidOnt: The Video Ontology

Standardizing the Web

Current version: VidOnt v1.0 (23 May 2011)
Author: Leslie F. Sikos, Ph.D. (info [at] vidont [dot] org)
Available formats: OWL | OWL functional syntax | RDF/XML | Manchester syntax | Turtle
Namespace URI: http://vidont.org/
Prefix for abbreviating terms: vidont

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Abstract   VidOnt is an ontology for videos. The domain of the VidOnt ontology covers videos and filmmakers, their properties and the relationships between them.

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Table of contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Classes
  3. Properties

Introduction

The VidOnt ontology takes a step toward the standardization of video annotations. VidOnt provides the potential of machine-processable video sharing on the Semantic Web, making automatic description generation and transformation possible. Moreover, the VidOnt ontology significantly contributes to the improvement of video searching on Web 2.0. The classes, properties, and relationships defined by the ontology can be used not only by searching services, but also for classification and distribution. The VidOnt Ontology can be used by video studios, people in the film industry, merchants, as well as individual professionals.

Classes

Agent Award Film LicenseDocument Project Release Series Standard

Properties

Object properties

alsoKnownAs authoredBy basedOn cast choreographedBy cinematographyBy conformsTo contributorOf costumeDesignerOf convertedFrom creatorOf currentProject cutOf demuxedBy directedBy directorOf distributedBy dubbedBy editedBy editorOf episodeOf filmScoreBy filmmakerOf installmentOf license listOfActors listOfAlternateTitles listOfContributors madeBy makeupArtistOf mandatorySupportFor musicBy muxedBy narratedBy narratorOf nominatedFor optionalSupportFor partOf permits playedIn producedBy producerOf prohibits re-cutOf recordedBy recordedFrom released releasedInFormat releasedOn remakeOf remuxedBy rightsHolder screenplayBy sequelOf soundEditorOf soundMixerOf spin-offOf starring status storyBy stuntmanOf stuntsBy supportedBy upcoming visualEffectsDesignerOf visualEffectsDirectorOf

alsoKnownAs


IRI: http://vidont.org/#alsoKnownAs

Sub-property of listOfAlternateTitles

authoredBy


IRI: http://vidont.org/#authoredBy

Sub-property of madeBy

basedOn


IRI: http://vidont.org/#basedOn

Super-property of cutOf, installmentOfsequelOf, re-cutOf, remakeOf, spin-offOf

cast


IRI: http://vidont.org/#cast

Sub-property of listOfContributors

choreographedBy


IRI: http://vidont.org/#choreographedBy

Sub-property of madeBy

cinematographyBy


IRI: http://vidont.org/#cinematographyBy

Sub-property of madeBy

conformsTo


IRI: http://vidont.org/#conformsTo

Range: Standard

Description: An established standard to which the described resource conforms.

Re-used from: Dublin Core terms

contributorOf


IRI: http://vidont.org/#contributorOf

Sub-property of filmmakerOf

costumeDesignerOf


IRI: http://vidont.org/#costumeDesignerOf

Sub-property of filmmakerOf

convertedFrom


IRI: http://vidont.org/#convertedFrom

creatorOf


IRI: http://vidont.org/#creatorOf

Sub-property of filmmakerOf

currentProject


IRI: http://vidont.org/#currentProject

cutOf


IRI: http://vidont.org/#cutOf

Sub-property of basedOn

demuxedBy


IRI: http://vidont.org/#demuxedBy

Sub-property of muxedBy

directedBy


IRI: http://vidont.org/#directedBy

Sub-property of madeBy

directorOf


IRI: http://vidont.org/#directorOf

Sub-property of filmmakerOf

distributedBy


IRI: http://vidont.org/#distributedBy

Range: Studio

dubbedBy


IRI: http://vidont.org/#dubbedBy

Sub-property of madeBy

editedBy


IRI: http://vidont.org/#editedBy

Sub-property of madeBy

editorOf


IRI: http://vidont.org/#editorOf

Sub-property of filmmakerOf

episodeOf


IRI: http://vidont.org/#episodeOf

Range: Series

Sub-property of partOf

filmScoreBy


IRI: http://vidont.org/#filmScoreBy

Sub-property of musicBy

filmmakerOf


IRI: http://vidont.org/#filmmakerOf

Range: Person

Super-property of authorOf, choreographerOf, cinematographerOfdirectorOfPhotographyOf, composerOf, contributorOf

installmentOf


IRI: http://vidont.org/#installmentOf

Sub-property of basedOn

Equivalent object property: sequelOf

license


IRI: http://vidont.org/#license

Sub-property of basedOn

Equivalent object property: sequelOf

Re-used from: Creative Commons

listOfActors


IRI: http://vidont.org/#listOfActors

Sub-property of listOfcontributors

listOfAlternateTitles


IRI: http://vidont.org/#listOfAlternateTitles

Super-property of alsoKnownAs

listOfContributors


IRI: http://vidont.org/#listOfContributors

Super-property of cast, listOfActors

madeBy


IRI: http://vidont.org/#madeBy

Super-property of authoredBy, choreograhedBy, cinematographyBy, contributor, costumeDesignBy, creator, directedBy, dubbedBy, editedBy, filmscoreBy, makeupBy, musicBy, muxedBy, narratedBy, producedBy, recordedBy, screenplayBy, soundEditedBy, soundMixedBy, starring, stuntsBy, visualEffectsBy

mandatorySupportFor


IRI: http://vidont.org/#mandatorySupportFor

Range: Media, Standard

nominatedFor


IRI: http://vidont.org/#nominatedFor

Range: Award, Film

optionalSupportFor


IRI: http://vidont.org/#optionalSupportFor

Range: Media, Standard

partOf


IRI: http://vidont.org/#partOf

Super-property of episodeOf

permits


IRI: http://vidont.org/#permits

Range: Permission

prohibits


IRI: http://vidont.org/#prohibits

Range: Permission

recordedFrom


IRI: http://vidont.org/#recordedFrom

releasedInFormat


IRI: http://vidont.org/#releasedInFormat

releasedOn


IRI: http://vidont.org/#releasedOn

rightsHolder


IRI: http://vidont.org/#rightsHolder

Range: Agent

Re-used from: Dublin Core terms

remuxedBy


IRI: http://vidont.org/#remuxedBy

Sub-property of muxedBy

status


IRI: http://vidont.org/#status

storyBy


IRI: http://vidont.org/#storyBy

supportedBy


IRI: http://vidont.org/#supportedBy

Data properties

anamorphic anamorphicWidescreen angles aspectRatio audio audioCodec broadcast budget channels chapters codec color commercial compromiseRatio container country created date dimensions distributed fileFormat fileSystem format frameRate genre givenName height identifier imageRatio labelled letterboxed MAR MIMEType mode modified navigation nominated non-commercial non-standardResolution OAR pannedAndScanned PAR pillarboxed plot produced promoted rating reception recordingMode resolution runningTime SAR scan seamlessBranching size source standardResolution subtitle supplement surname system userRestriction videoBitrate videoCodec widescreen width windowboxed

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anamorphic


IRI: http://vidont.org/#anamorphic

Sub-property of imageRatio

anamorphicWidescreen


IRI: http://vidont.org/#anamorphicWidescreen

Sub-property of widescreen

Description: A video process that horizontally squeezes a widescreen image to be stored in a standard 4:3 aspect ratio DVD image frame.

angles


IRI: http://vidont.org/#angles

Sub-property of navigation

aspectRatio


IRI: http://vidont.org/#aspectRatio

Super-property of anamorphic, compromiseRatio, MAR, OAR, SAR, widescreen

audio


IRI: http://vidont.org/#audio

Super-property of audioBitrate, channels, language, syncSound, voice-over

audioCodec


IRI: http://vidont.org/#audioCodec

Sub-property of codec

Sample values: AC-3≡DolbyDigital, DRA, DTS, DTS-HDHighResolutionAudio, DTS-HDMasterAudio, DTSDigitalSurround, DolbyDigital5.1Creator, DolbyDigitalCinema, DolbyDigitalEX, DolbyDigitalLive, DolbyDigitalPlus, DolbyDigitalRecording, DolbyDigitalStereoCreator, DolbyDigitalSurroundEX, DolbyTrueHD, LPCM, MP2, MPEG-1Audio, MPEG-2Audio, PCM

budget


IRI: http://vidont.org/#budget

Sub-property of produced

broadcast


IRI: http://vidont.org/#broadcast

Sub-property of commercial

Sample values: ATSC, cable, DVB, IPTV, ISDB, satellite, SBTVD, terrestrial

channels


IRI: http://vidont.org/#channels

Sub-property of audio

Sample values: 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, DolbySurround, mono, stereo

chapters


IRI: http://vidont.org/#chapters

Sub-property of navigation

codec


IRI: http://vidont.org/#codec

Super-property of audioCodec, videoCodec

color


IRI: http://vidont.org/#color

commercial


IRI: http://vidont.org/#commercial

Sub-property of distributed

compromiseRatio


IRI: http://vidont.org/#compromiseRatio

Sub-property of imageRatio

Super-property of letterboxed, pannedAndScanned, pillarboxed, windowboxed

container


IRI: http://vidont.org/#container

Sub-property of fileFormat

ASF, AVI, MKV, MP4, VOB, m2ts

country


IRI: http://vidont.org/#country

created


IRI: http://vidont.org/#created

date


IRI: http://vidont.org/#date

Sub-property of

Re-used from: Dublin Core terms

dimensions


IRI: http://vidont.org/#dimensions

Sub-property of produced

Sample values: 2D, 3D

distributed


IRI: http://vidont.org/#distributed

Super-property of commercial, non-commercial, userRestriction

fileFormat


IRI: http://vidont.org/#fileFormat

Sub-property of produced

Super-property of container

Sample values: AVCHD, FLV

fileSystem


IRI: http://vidont.org/#fileSystem

Sub-property of produced

Sample values: exFAT, ISO9660, Joliet, MicroUDF, UDFbridge

format


IRI: http://vidont.org/#format

Sub-property of produced

Description: Special formats.

Sample values: DisneyDigital3D, IMAX3D, IMAXHD, OMNIMAX, RealD

frameRate


IRI: http://vidont.org/#frameRate

Sub-property of produced

genre


IRI: http://vidont.org/#genre

Sample values: action, adventure, comedy, crime, disaster, documentary, drama, epic, family, fantasy, film-noir, horror, LGBT, martilArt, mockumentary, musical, mystery, romance, scienceFiction, sport, thriller, war, western, wuxia, XXX

givenName


IRI: http://vidont.org/#givenName

height


IRI: http://vidont.org/#height

Sub-property of resolution

identifier


IRI: http://vidont.org/#identifier

imageRatio


IRI: http://vidont.org/#imageRatio

Sub-property of aspectRatio

Super-property of anamorphic, compromiseRatio, MAR, normalRatio, OAR, SAR, widescreen

Sample values: 1.15:1, 1.33:14:3, 1.375:1, 1.37:1, 1.43:1, 1.5:13:2, 1.6:18:516:10, 1.66:11.67:115:9, 1.6:1, 1.75:1, 1.77:1≡1.78:116:9, 1.85:1, 2:1, 2.2:1, 2.35:1, 2.37:1, 2.39:1≡2.40:1, 2.55:1, 2.59:1, 2.67:1, 2.75:1≡2.76:1, 2.93:1, 3:2, 4:1, 5:3, 12:1, 15:9≡5:3, 16:10≡8:5

labelled


IRI: http://vidont.org/#labelled

Description: film category.

Sample values: fullLengthFilm, re-cut, remake, sequel, spin-off, shortFilm, trailer

letterboxed


IRI: http://vidont.org/#letterboxed

Sub-property of compromiseRatio

MAR


IRI: http://vidont.org/#MAR

Sub-property of aspectRatio

MIMEType


IRI: http://vidont.org/#MIMEType

Sub-property of produced

Sample values: video/mpeg, video/ogg, video/quicktime, video/webm, video/x-ms-wmv, video/mp4

mode


IRI: http://vidont.org/#mode

Description: video mode.

Sample values: 1080i, 1080p, 240p, 24p, 288p, 30p, 480p, 480p24, 576p, 576p25, 60i, 720p

modified


IRI: http://vidont.org/#modified

Sub-property of produced

nominated


IRI: http://vidont.org/#nominated

non-commercial


IRI: http://vidont.org/#non-commercial

Sub-property of distributed

non-standardResolution


IRI: http://vidont.org/#non-standardResolution

Sub-property of resolution

OAR


IRI: http://vidont.org/#OAR

Sub-property of aspectRatio

pannedAndScanned


IRI: http://vidont.org/#pannedAndScanned

Sub-property of compromiseRatio

PAR


IRI: http://vidont.org/#PAR

Sub-property of aspectRatio

Possible values: rectangular, square

pillarboxed


IRI: http://vidont.org/#pillarboxed

Sub-property of compromiseRatio

plot


IRI: http://vidont.org/#plot

rating


IRI: http://vidont.org/#rating

Sub-property of reception

reception


IRI: http://vidont.org/#reception

Super-property of rating

recordingMode


IRI: http://vidont.org/#recordingMode

Sub-property of produced

Sample values: AMQR, DAO, Mode1, Mode2/XA, SAO, TAO

resolution


IRI: http://vidont.org/#resolution

Sub-property of produced

Super-property of non-standardResolution, standardResolution

runningTime


IRI: http://vidont.org/#runningTime

Sub-property of produced

SAR


IRI: http://vidont.org/#SAR

Sub-property of imageRatio

scan


IRI: http://vidont.org/#scan

Sub-property of produced

Possible values: interlaced, progressive

seamlessBranching


IRI: http://vidont.org/#seamlessBranching

Sub-property of navigation

size


IRI: http://vidont.org/#size

Sub-property of produced

source


IRI: http://vidont.org/#source

Sub-property of produced

Sample values: analog, camera, consumerVideoCamera, digital, digitalized, EDTV, HDTV, professionalVideoCamera, SDTD, VCR

standardResolution


IRI: http://vidont.org/#standardResolution

Sub-property of resolution

Description: standard or de facto standard resolutions.

Sample values: 16CIF, 2K, 4CIF≡4SIF625, 4K, 4SIF525, 8K, CIF≡SIF625, D-1, DCIF, fullHD, FWVGA, HD, HQVGA, HSXGA, HUXGA, HVGA, HXGA, nHD, QCIF, QFHD, qHD, QQVGA, QSXGA, QUXGA, QVGA, QWXGA, QXGA, RetinaDisplay, SD, SIF525, SQCIF, SVGA, SXGA, SXGA+, UXGA, VGA, WHSXGA, WHUXGA, WHXGA, WQHD, WQSXGA, WQUXGA, WQVGA, WQXGA, WSVGA, WSXGA+, WUXGA, WVGA, WXGA, WXGA+, XGA, XGA+

subtitle


IRI: http://vidont.org/#subtitle

Sub-property of produced

supplement


IRI: http://vidont.org/#supplement

Sub-property of commercial

surname


IRI: http://vidont.org/#surname

Re-used from: FOAF

system


IRI: http://vidont.org/#system

Description: TV system.

Sub-property of produced

Possible values: NTSC, PAL, SECAM

userRestriction


IRI: http://vidont.org/#userRestriction

Description: Digital Rights Management (DRM) and/or encryption of movies distributed on discs.

Sub-property of distributed

Sample values: anti-ripping, BDRegionCode, CSS, DRM, DVDRegionCode, encryption, Marcovision, UOP

videoBitrate


IRI: http://vidont.org/#videoBitrate

Sub-property of produced

videoCodec


IRI: http://vidont.org/#videoCodec

Sub-property of codec

Sample values: H.261, H.263, H.264MPEG-4AVC, MPEG-1Video, MPEG-2Video, SMPTE421MVC-1, Sorenson, VP6

widescreen


IRI: http://vidont.org/#widescreen

Sub-property of imageRatio

width


IRI: http://vidont.org/#width

Sub-property of resolution

windowboxed


IRI: http://vidont.org/#windowboxed

Sub-property of compromiseRatio