Building semantic interoperability into a content integration application

The task of applications to integrate data from multiple sources in different environments (such as broadcast television and World Wide Web) encounters the problem of non-interoperability between the various standards used to encode and represent that data. The potential of the semantic Web to provide machine-understandable data to applications to aid interoperability needs to resolve the issue of the use of different semantic concept spaces for the same concepts. Without solutions to this, convergence applications will not be able to benefit from semantic information when seeking to integrate content. This paper analyses a number of possible approaches using semantic Web standards and outlines how the chosen approach will extend my research in implementing an automated system for the integration of Web-based content with audio-visual material.