Advanced indexing and retrieval in present-day content management systems

A content management system in the broadcast domain comprises a system that provides functionality for long-term preservation of continuous digital media, as well as for annotation, retrieval, and re-use of the content. In order to enrich the annotation without increasing the human workloads a system should generate as much metadata as possible automatically. In this paper, the ongoing work of integrating new automatic indexing and retrieval systems into a content management system is presented. The integration efforts described here are part of some European-funded projects with partners from industry, broadcast organizations, and research institutes.