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Sharing Multimodal Data: A Novel Metadata Session Profile for Multimodal Corpora

Farina Freigang
Faculty of Technology, Center of Excellence “Cognitive Interaction Technology” (CITEC), Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

Matthias A. Priesters
Faculty of Technology, Center of Excellence “Cognitive Interaction Technology” (CITEC), Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany / Human Technology Centre (HumTec), Natural Media Lab, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Rie Nishio
Institute of German Sign Language and Communication of the Deaf, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Kirsten Bergmann
Faculty of Technology, Center of Excellence “Cognitive Interaction Technology” (CITEC), Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

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Published in: Selected Papers from the CLARIN 2014 Conference, October 24-25, 2014, Soesterberg, The Netherlands

Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 116:3, p. 25-35

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Published: 2015-08-26

ISBN: 978-91-7685-954-4

ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)

Abstract

In the natural sciences and humanities, scientific data management and in particular the categorisation of data and the publication of (meta)data becomes ever more relevant. A new focus in corpus-based research are multimodal data. However, metadata profiles for multimodal data are rare and do not fit the needs of researchers who are searching for particular data. In this paper, we present a novel metadata session profile for describing data collections which contain other modalities beyond text and speech. The profile is based on experiences gained during the work on three different corpora comprising communicative speech-gestural behaviour as well as sign language data. The profile is aimed at creating metadata for individual recording sessions and is technically implemented in the CMDI format. Furthermore, it is designed to be paired with an existing profile for media corpora, which was extended for multimodal data.

Keywords

Metadata profile;multimodal data;multimodal corpora;gesture;sign language;CMDI;ISOcat;CLARIN

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