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A semantic management model to enable the integrated management of media and devices

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The challenge of managing large scale media assets has led to the development of metadata schemas that are expected to enable efficient search and retrieval of multimedia content. Those approaches propose schemas that can range from simple keyword based descriptions to complex hierarchical organization of information. However, effective media asset management requires more than content searching and retrieval: underlying infrastructures are usually complex, require the use of a number of different equipment and management decisions have to be done based on information available from the multimedia metadata layer as well as on data describing system resources and capabilities. In this paper we propose a new ontology that aggregates information from different sources and enables a top level business oriented view of multimedia archives.

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  1. Instances of the ontology are presented in red while classes are pictured in brown.

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    Paula Viana

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  3. Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Universidade do Porto, Rua Dr Roberto Frias, 378, 4200-465, Porto, Portugal

    Artur Pimenta Alves

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Viana, P., Alves, A.P. A semantic management model to enable the integrated management of media and devices. Multimed Tools Appl 49, 37–62 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-009-0395-4

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