MeTaMaF: Metadata Tagging and Mapping Framework for Managing Multimedia Content

Metadata comes into forefront as a savior of multimedia search and management complexity. However, the existence of the diverse set of metadata standards and the different vocabularies used by these standards has made that task especially challenging in recent days. In this paper, we propose a framework for managing multimedia content by effectively dealing with the heterogeneous multimedia metadata in a transparent fashion. The cornerstone of our approach is to leverage the existing metadata standards and provide schema-level mapping among them. The proposal also allows adding new tags/vocabularies with the given metadata vocabularies, defining equivalency relationship among those vocabularies, and separately managing the metadata vocabularies outside of the actual media files. Our approach naturally extends the search perimeter to cover different media types thereby producing more relevant search results. We have developed a prototype of the framework and evaluated its performance i...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: ISM
• Authors: M. Anwar Hossain, Md. Anisur Rahman, Iluju Kiringa, Abdulmotaleb El-Saddik
• Keywords: ISM 2006, Metadata, Metadata Standards, Metadata Vocabularies