Multimedia Tools and Applications

, Volume 59, Issue 2, pp 691–715 | Cite as

A URI-based approach for addressing fragments of media resources on the Web

  • Erik Mannens
  • Davy Van Deursen
  • Raphaël Troncy
  • Silvia Pfeiffer
  • Conrad Parker
  • Yves Lafon
  • Jack Jansen
  • Michael Hausenblas
  • Rik Van de Walle
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Abstract

To make media resources a prime citizen on the Web, we have to go beyond simply replicating digital media files. The Web is based on hyperlinks between Web resources, and that includes hyperlinking out of resources (e.g., from a word or an image within a Web page) as well as hyperlinking into resources (e.g., fragment URIs into Web pages). To turn video and audio into hypervideo and hyperaudio, we need to enable hyperlinking into and out of them. The W3C Media Fragments Working Group is taking on the challenge to further embrace W3C’s mission to lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing a Media Fragment protocol and guidelines that ensure the long-term growth of the Web. The major contribution of this paper is the introduction of Media Fragments as a media-format independent, standard means of addressing media resources using URIs. Moreover, we explain how the HTTP protocol can be used and extended to serve Media Fragments and what the impact is for current Web-enabled media formats.

Keywords

Media fragments W3C standardisation HTML5 
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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the other W3C Media Fragments’ participants: Eric Carlson (Apple, Inc.), Thierry Michel (W3C/ERCIM), Guillaume Olivrin (Meraka Institute, South Africa), Soohong Daniel Park (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.), David Singer (Apple, Inc.), Philip Jägenstedt (Opera Software) for their willingness to discuss the definition of media fragments and more generally their adequacy within the Web architecture. The research activities that have been described in this paper were partially funded by W3C/ERCIM, Ghent University, Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology (IBBT), the Institute for the Promotion of Innovation by Science and Technology in Flanders (IWT), the Fund for Scientific Research-Flanders (FWO-Flanders), the French Ministry of Industry (Innovative Web call) under contract 09.2.93.0966, EURECOM, CWI, Kyoto University, National University of Ireland, Mozilla Corporation, and the European Union within the 7th framework program (FP7/2007-2013) under agreement ICT-2007-214793.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Erik Mannens
    • 1
  • Davy Van Deursen
    • 1
  • Raphaël Troncy
    • 2
  • Silvia Pfeiffer
    • 3
  • Conrad Parker
    • 4
  • Yves Lafon
    • 5
  • Jack Jansen
    • 6
  • Michael Hausenblas
    • 7
  • Rik Van de Walle
    • 1
  1. 1.ELIS—Multimedia LabGhent University—IBBTGhentBelgium
  2. 2.Multimedia Communications DepartmentEURECOMSophia AntipolisFrance
  3. 3.VquenceSydneyAustralia
  4. 4.Kyoto UniversityKyotoJapan
  5. 5.W3C/ERCIMSophia AntipolisFrance
  6. 6.Distributed Multimedia Languages and InfrastructuresCWIAmsterdamNetherlands
  7. 7.Digital Enterprise Research Institute—LiDRCNational University of IrelandGalwayIreland

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