Applying Semantic Technology to Film Production

Film production is an information- and knowledge-intensive industrial process which is undergoing dramatic changes in response to evolving digital technology. The Deep Film Access Project (DFAP) has been researching the potential role of semantic technology in film production, focussing on how a semantic infrastructure could contribute to the integration of the data and metadata generated during the film production lifecycle. This paper reports on the preliminary development of a knowledge framework to support the automatic management of feature film digital assets, based on a workflow analysis supported by an OWL ontology. We discuss the challenges of building on previous work and present examples of ontological modelling of key film production concepts in a semantically rich hybrid ontological framework.