Using MILOS to Build a Multimedia Digital Library Application: The PhotoBook Experience

Abstract. The digital library field is recently broadening its scope of applicability and it is also continuously adapting to the frequent changes occurring in the internet society. Accordingly, digital libraries are slightly moving from a controlled environment accessible only to professionals and domain-experts, to environments accessible to casual users that want to exploit the potentialities offered by the digital library technology. These new trends require, for instance, new search paradigms to be offered, new media content to be managed, and new description extraction techniques to be used. Building digital library applications, and effectively adapting them to new emerging trends, requires to develop a platform that offers standard and powerful building blocks to support application developers. In this paper we discuss our experience of using MILOS, a multimedia content management system oriented to the construction of digital libraries, to build a demanding application dedicat...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: ERCIMDL
• Authors: Giuseppe Amato, Paolo Bolettieri, Franca Debole, Fabrizio Falchi, Fausto Rabitti, Pasquale Savino
• Keywords: Digital Libraries, Digital Library, Digital Library Application, Education, ERCIMDL 2006