This book gives an overview on fundamental issues within the field of multimedia metadata focusing on contextualized, ubiquitous, accessible and interoperable s

This is an edited volume based on the 2007 Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR), now in its second meeting. Metadata research is a pluri-discipl

"This book is aimed at researchers and practitioners involved in designing and managing complex multimedia information systems"--Provided by publisher.

Metadata research has emerged as a discipline cross-cutting many domains, focused on the provision of distributed descriptions (often called annotations) to Web

This second edition provides easy access to important concepts, issues and technology trends in the field of multimedia technologies, systems, techniques, and a