A Generic Metadata Framework for the Indexation and the Management of Distributed Multimedia Contents

Currently, many multimedia contents are acquired and stored in real time and on different locations. These contents are indexed in order to provide some metadata that are used during the retrieval process. However, several existing metadata standards can be used for describing the content, and mixing them do not ensure interoperability. To overcome this problem, we propose in this paper a generic metadata framework that defines an abstract representation of a multimedia document and encapsulates the most common metadata standards.