Ontology-Based framework for Real-Time Audiovisual Art

Documentation of multimedia art requires extensive analysis. To ensure contextual understanding and recognition the need for systematization is high. This work examines the use of CIDOC CRM for semantic documentation of real-time audiovisual art. Documentation of audiovisual art is a challenge due to the variety of formats and content. Standardized metadata and frameworks to describe these objects do not exist. CIDOC CRM offers a framework to describe objects of cultural heritage but is not principally designed for virtual objects. This study examines the practicability of CIDOC CRM for real-time audiovisual art and documents scopes and constraints. Sampling frame basis is the largest internet archive of computer demo artworks. With descriptive and subject analysis a method and a conceptual model for the correlation of objects is presented. This makes clear that some concepts from the CIDOC CRM can be transferred but the model needs be extended for virtual technical material.