Supporting Collaborative Workflows of Digital Multimedia Annotation

Collaborative annotation techniques for digital multimedia contents have found their way into a vast amount of areas of daily use as well as professional fields. Attendant research has issued a large number of research projects that can be assigned to different specific subareas of annotation. These projects focus on one or only few aspects of digital annotation. However, the whole annotation process as a operative unit has not sufficiently been taken into consideration, especially for the case of collaborative settings. In order to attend to that lack of research, we present a framework that supports multiple collaborative workflows related to digital multimedia annotation. In that context, we introduce a process-based architecture model, a formalized specification of collaborative annotation processes, and a concept for personalized workflow visualization and user assistance