Chapter/Belgium/Stories/MMLab

Multimedia Lab (MMLab) is a research group within Ghent University (Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Department of Electronics and Information Systems). MMLab was founded in 2001. This lab has a wide range of activities, including fundamental/basic research, applied research, and contract-based research with industrial partners. Besides, MMLab is doing scientific consultancy for both industrial and governmental partners and is one of the founding research groups of IBBT(Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology). One of the main topics is State-of-the-art research in Semantic technology and Linked Data.


 * Metadata (Modelling-Collection-Consumption)
 * Ontology Engineering
 * Intelligent Enrichment
 * Linked Data
 * Open (Gov) Data
 * Rule-based Reasoning
 * Semantic Service Description / Composition
 * Provenance & Web of Trust
 * Media Delivery
 * Ninsuna
 * Media Fragments
 * HTTP Adaptive Streaming
 * Model Driven Decision Taking Engine
 * Media on the Web
 * W3C Standardization Activities
 * Co-chairing the Media Fragments WG
 * Participating in Media Annotations WG
 * Participating in Provenance WG
 * Participating in Mutimedia Semantics Incubator WG
 * Starting in eGov WG
 * Starting in Semantic Web Servives WG

By participating in OKFN, MultimediaLab will apply their expertise in several projects together with the Open Data community.