Corpus Metadata

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The FU Berlin project team compiled a video corpus with feature films, documentaries, television news and web videos on the global financial crisis after 2007 in order to investigate audio-visual rhetorics of affect. Since the films cannot be published for copyright reasons, we offer the semantic metadata of the corpus here.

Structure and Content

The corpus metadata is divided into general film metadata and metadata for video files. Film metadata contains information such as the identifier, title, director and summary of the film. The file metadata contains the exact runtime, the file name and an identifier that was determined by the SHA256 checksum of the file.

The corpus currently contains 404 movies (13 feature films, 76 documentaries, 315 TV news shows). 390 movies are available as transcoded material for analysis.

For example, the metadata for the feature film “The Company Men” is available as follows:

Identifer	60
Title	The Company Men
Year	2010
Language	English
Writer	John Wells
Director	John Wells
Runtime	104 min
Abstract	The story centers on a year in the life of three men trying to survive a round of corporate downsizing at a major company - and how that affects them, their families, and their communities.
Actors	Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones, Chris Cooper, Suzanne Rico
IMDB	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1172991
Release date	11.02.2011
Genre	Feature Film

The file metadata for the feature film “The Company Men” is available as follows:

Identifer	294704ee3bd55a6888235ae7721120c29522eddd3cc273cc8365fa0eef2ac56d
Filename	Wells_John_The_Company_Men.mp4
Duration	6033323 ms

Encoding

The corpus metadata is encoded as RDF data using existing vocabularies such as the DBpedia Ontology, Schema.org, and the Linked Movie DataBase. Where appropriate, our resources have been linked to Wikidata and DBpedia entities.

Online Access

As for the ontology, metadata for the corpus can be viewed online in our triplestore. The Corpus resource can be used as an entry point. More examples are listed below:

Feature Film	The Company Men	Movie URI	Media URI
Documentary	Occupy Wall Street	Movie URI	Media URI
TV News	Tagesschau 2008-09-08	Movie URI	Media URI

We also developed a Corpus Overview Web Application to access the corpus metadata and to download annotation templates for the Advene annotation software.

Download

The corpus metadata is also available for download in our GitHub repository as RDF export in Turtle format.