This deliverable is a report containing an analysis of representative audiovisual documentation models adopted by the major organisations participating in the project plus a set of standard-models with notable prevalence. Include is an overall mapping of entities and attributes into a common denominator. The focus is on the practical aspects of the different models in reference to the main focus of the overall workgroup as well as on the migration of legacy metadata.

The current deliverable introduces the necessary background information for the domain, definition of the limitations of contemporary types of search, as well as an overview of advanced search techniques. In the end it presents the solution chosen as a basis for the conceptual search in the context of PrestoSpace: the KIM Platform for semantic annotation, indexing and retrieval, providing semantically-enabled kinds of search, formal knowledge navigation and the opportunity for even more sophisticated search paradigms to be layered on top.

This report is a survey of the state of the art of tools and algorithm for analysis of audiovisual content for the purpose of metadata extraction. The report is divided in four parts: Parts A through C discuss content analysis tools working on visual, audio and jointly on audiovisual features respectively. Part D summarises the state of the art of the tools and discusses their feasibility and practical usability, as well as the interdependencies between the various tools. Benchmarking results, such as those of TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation (TRECVID), are used to objectively evaluate the quality of audiovisual content analysis tools.

A presentation for A/V archivists on the challenges and opportunities presented for delivery of content on the Intenet.

The MAD Platform receives digitised media (audio and video files) as input: these data are processed by the Documentation Platform, which returns different materials as key frames, camera motions and metadata. These materials are then indexed and published on a web server by the Publication Platform.