An Efficient Use of Manga Information Resources

−Towards a New Production and Distribution of Manga for the Digital Media

Abstract

As other media contents, manga has been consumed through digital media, and it becomes usual that they are produced and distributed in the digital environment. Therefore, it is a crucial problem to manage various information resources of manga which are increasing rapidly. Manga is a content to express complicated information by the mixture of pictures and texts. It is difficult to access and use this information from a simple graphic data. This obstructs the efficient use of manga in the digital environment.We are making some researches for the efficient management of manga information resources by semantic web technologies. this speech introduces them, and additionally, refers the expectations of the growth of research about manga in the research area of media computing.