The media industry is more and more faced with international competition and new players on the Web. To stay competitive in this rapidly evolving market, powerful IT support is essential. However, semantic technologies for annotation and search of media content are not appropriately harnessed today. The typical process chain of a media archive consists of acquisition and annotation of new content, storage and archival, semantic search and retrieval, and publishing of annotation and the media content. In the following diagram, we illustrate each of the processes and how we support them. For technical details, please refer to the publications page.
Media Management Processes Overview
Increasing the value of your annotations
Using rich and structured background knowledge, your annotations become more valuable for search, retrieval, publishing, and monetization. We go beyond keywords and provide true semantics.
Incresing efficiency of the annotation process
Annotation of content is a manual and tedious process. We support the efficient creation of high-quality meta data by leveraging background knowledge from the Semantic Web.
Improving access to the media
Accessing large media collections can be time-consuming and tedious. Leveraging the rich background knowledge, we provide new ways of searching and browsing.
Opening up new market opportunities
The internet is constantly evolving and new marketing channels are generated. We prepare media providers to take part in this evolution from the beginning and to open up new monetarization opportunties.