Integrating Heterogeneous Metadata into a Distributed Multimedia Information System

International audienceCurrently, a lot of distributed multimedia systems exist but they do not address the problem of distributed indexation. The project LINDO enables to deploy remotely, on demand, different indexing algorithms that might produce metadata in different formats. This could yield to an interoperability problem because of the existing differences between various standard metadata formats in terms of structures and vocabularies. In this paper, we propose a metadata model that encapsulates the most common metadata standards, such as MPEG-7, EXIF, MXF, ID3, Dublin Core, etc