The stakes are rising in the race to develop multimedia search engines capable of searching, indexing and cataloging the growing amount of music, images and video available on the Web. The challenges are substantially more involved and complicated than traditional text searching. A lack of resources devoted to tagging and marking up content for use as metadata, the lack of adequate metadata databases and the difficulties associated with indexing dynamic content are cited as hurdles that need to be overcome.
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Beyond Text: Intensifying Multimedia Search
Posted by: Andrew K. Burger September 11, 2007 04:00 AMThe stakes are rising in the race to develop multimedia search engines capable of searching, indexing and cataloging the growing amount of music, images and video available on the Web. The challenges are substantially more involved and complicated than traditional text searching. A lack of resources devoted to tagging and marking up content for use as metadata, the lack of adequate metadata databases and the difficulties associated with indexing dynamic content are cited as hurdles that need to be overcome.