Exploiting Social Software to Semantically Enrich Multimedia Content for Online Communities

Today, the emergence of social software technologies transforms the Internet to a medium of mass social interaction and collaboration, also promoting the formation of massive online communities. On the other hand, huge amounts of multimedia content, provided by and shared among individuals and community members, are constantly accumulated in content sharing enablers. This position paper presents research work towards the exploitation of social software applications for understanding, semantically enriching and delivering multimedia content, our ultimate goal being to support online communities.