Design of the Photo Album Ontology
Abstract
At present, growing demand of the management of huge volume of web contents,
especially photos, require the software tools, which can store, index and retrieve the photos
from the repository more efficiently. In this paper, we proposed a design solution using the
semantic web technology. The goal is to integrate this knowledge-based ontology into the
photo management system to improve the experience of the user's accessibility in the
photo warehouse.
Most of the existing photo album management software tools are built using the convention
of traditional approaches, such as key-word based search or low-level image annotation
approaches, which make it difficult to retrieve the user's desired photo successfully.
To access those stored photos and retrieve them in an efficient manner, we designed an
ontology-based photo album, which will allow the users to find their necessary
information, in this case, photos effectively. Query language like Simple Protocol and
Resource Query Language (SPARQL) is used to initiate the query within the photo
repository. Our experience shows that this domain knowledge-based concept can improve
the photo retrieval experience fruitfully.