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Multimedia Metadata

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Hypermedia metadata; Meta-knowledge; Mixed-media; New media metadata

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Multimedia is media that utilizes a combination of different content forms. In general, a multimedia asset includes a combination of at least two of the following: text, audio, still images, animation, video, and some sort of interactivity. There are two categories of multimedia content: linear and non-linear. Linear content progresses without any navigation control for the viewer, such as a cinema presentation. Non-linear content offers users interactivity to control progress. Examples are computer games or computer based training applications. Non-linear content is also known as hypermedia content.

Metadata is data about data of any sort in any media, describing an individual datum, content item, or a collection of data including multiple content items. In that way, metadata facilitates the understanding, characteristics, use and management of data.

Multimedia metadata is structured, encoded data...

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  1. University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Frank Nack

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. Dept. of Computer Science, New Jersey Inst. of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA

    Vincent Oria

  2. Digital Content and Media Sciences ReseaMultimedia Information Research Division, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan

    Shin'ichi Satoh

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Nack, F. (2018). Multimedia Metadata. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_1443

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