Creating Rich Metadata in the TV Broadcast Archives Environment: The PrestoSpace Project
Alberto Messina, Laurent Boch, Giorgio Dimino, Werner Bailer, Peter Schallauer, Walter Allasia, Milton Groppo, M. Vigilante, Roberto Basili · 2006
This paper describes the part of the European PrestoSpace project dedicated to the study and development of a metadata access and delivery (MAD) system for television broadcast archives. The mission of the MAD system, inside the wider perspective of the PrestoSpace factory, is to generate, validate and deliver to the archive users metadata created through the employment of both automatic and manual information extraction tools. Automatic tools include audiovisual content analysis and semantic analysis of text extracted by automatic speech recognition (ASR). The MAD publication platform provides access and search facilities to the imported and newly produced metadata in a synergic and easy-to-use interface