The IMCOP System for Data Enrichment and Content Discovery and Delivery

This paper presents an overview of the IMCOP system dedicated to data enrichment and content discovery and delivery. A representative client application -- the DEEP platform -- for which the IMCOP system can serve is also depicted. Foremost categories of IMCOP web services are described in detail and their goals are clarified. A concept of Complex Multimedia Objects derived from the MPEG-7 standard and standing, in parallel, for its extension, is also introduced. Finally, advantages of the IMCOP system, as well as IMCOP´s current drawbacks, with an insight into proposals for their future improvement, are discussed.