Semantically supported media services with user participation

This publication presents the main results of the project “Rich Semantic Media for Private and Professional Users” (RISE). The background to the launch of the project was the identification of two important developments: the emergence of user-generated content and Semantic Web technologies. The goal was to study what kind of new opportunities semantic metadata and combining commercial media content with user-created material give to media companies and their suppliers for product and service development. The publication gives an overview on recent developments relating to utilising user-generated content and metadata in public Web applications, and an update on development on Semantic Web technologies related issues on their relevance to the application development made in the project. The project chose to explore research issues by building prototypes. Each of the prototypes is presented including a user scenario, implementation, results, discussion and future work. • The StorySlotMachine is travelling related application, which allows users to make their own guidebooks to be used during the trip. After the trip users can make presentations combining their own photos and commercial content. Ontologies are used for automatic aggregation and to offer content that deals with the topic. • The Remix Engine prototype is a Web-based video editing and compilation application that lets the user combine his or her own media with commercial media with the help of pre-made templates. The end product, a video, is