The document discusses the importance of semantic metadata in enhancing the value of content within media and publishing. It critiques traditional metadata approaches that strip context and advocates for a schema-agnostic, NoSQL solution that incorporates semantics to model relationships and improve content discovery. Use cases highlight the benefits of this approach for driving product innovation and efficiency in digital content management.

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Semantic Metadata Takes
Center Stage
Maximize the value
of your content
Matt Turner
CTO Media and Publishing
Matt.turner@marklogic.com

2. Metadata Moves to the Front

3. CONTEXT

4. WHO’S SMARTER?
VS

5. Do domestic dogs interpret pointing as a command?
Animal Cognition (2012): 1-12 , November 09, 2012
By Scheider, Linda; Kaminski, Juliane; Call, Josep; Tomasello, Michael
DOGS GET CONTEXT!

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Machines Don’t Get Context . . .
Manu Sporny Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
http://www.cambridgesemantics.com/semantic-university/what-is-linked-data

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Metadata Needs Context Across Users and Operations
Production
File Name
Format
Create Date
Rights
Caption
Operations
Story
Title
Run Date
Credit
Position
Distribution
Category
License Type
Key Colors
Scene
Shape
Fans
Categories
Themes
Connections
Users
Watches
Favorites

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Traditional Approach Strips
Context
 Define everything in rows and
columns
– Narrows to specific purpose
 Fix categories into hierarchies
– Strips general context
 Result: Metadata can’t be used across
all parts of the business
Title ProductionDate Category AssetType Length
Film1 3/1/14 Feature HD Master 2:40
Show1 6/4/13 Series HD720 0:40
Film2 6/4/05 Feature Archive 1:55
Category
Feature
Series
Action
Drama
Comedy
Documentary
…
Cable
Broadcast
Drama
Comedy
…
Action
Drama
Family
Documentary
…
?

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Hierarchical Era
For your application
data!
• Application- and
hardware-specific
Data Drives the Need for a New Generation Database
Relational Era
“For all your structured
data!”
• Normalized, tabular
model
• Application-
independent query
• User control
Any Structure Era
“For all your data!”
• Schema-agnostic
• Massive scale
• Query and search
• Analytics
• Heterogeneous data
• Faster time-to-results

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Schema Flexibility with NoSQL
 What if you didn’t need to define
everything up front?
 And what if many of the nasty
data modeling issues with
metadata were just as simple as
adding new elements
 And you can keep EVERYTHING!

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Enter Semantics!
Manu Sporny Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
http://www.cambridgesemantics.com/semantic-university/what-is-linked-data

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Semantics to Model Relationships
 Data model to manage relationships and link together data
 ‘triples’ describe single facts
 Collections of facts describe complex real-world scenarios
“Chevy” ”NBC"
isOn
”SNL"
isOn
isOn
!

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Ontologies Instead of Categories
 Actually model information as it is
in the real world
 Not limited to a single purpose
– Ontologies for all categories of
metadata
– Even ‘impossible’ categories
like fictional worlds

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NoSQL and Semantics: Using CONTEXT to Unlock Content

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Use Case: Master Data
 Foundational data for
digital products
 Industry topology -
individuals and
organizations – drives
trends for innovation
 User and content metrics
to drive product
development

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Use Case: Enhance Digital Products
 Present information based on
relationships
 Go beyond traditional technology with
depth of content
 Drive efficiency using semantic
approach to tagging

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Use Case: Go Beyond Search
 Concept instead of keyword search
 Related content and information
drive the content discovery and new
interactions
– SNL40 continuous viewing
 Dynamically tailored to the users
specific attributes or activity

18. Metadata Moves to the Front

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Semantic Metadata Takes
Center Stage
Maximize the value
of your content
Matt Turner
CTO Media and Publishing
Matt.turner@marklogic.com