Supporting the Discovery and Reuse of Digital Content in Creative Industries using Linked Data

Creative industries play an important role in today's economy, being sources of growth that boost future development. Their products have a huge potential to be re-used and re-purposed, while at the same time they can enrich and improve the design process and create newly exploitable content. This short paper presents V4Link, a semantic annotation and linking framework of multimodal annotations deriving from visual and textual analysis of digital content. The framework reuses the Web Annotation Data Model to capture the annotations, while it semantically enriches the generated knowledge graphs by defining links to Linked Datasets, offering to users advanced query capabilities beyond the ones that can be supported on top of the initial multimodal knowledge base. We illustrate the capabilities of the framework presenting a number of use cases that inspire and support the design, architecture, as well as the 3D and VR game creative industries.