MediaBank: Keyword Search and Tag Cloud Functionalities for a Multimedia Content Authoring Web Platform

Abstract

The composition of multimedia presentations is a timeand resource-consuming task if not afforded in a well-defined manner. This is particularly true when people having different roles and following different high-level directives, collaborate in the authoring and assembling of a final product. For this reason we adopt the Select, Assemble, Transform and Present (SATP) approach to coordinate the presentation authoring and a tag cloud-based search engine in order to help users in efficiently retrieving useful assets. In the first of this paper we present MediaPresenter, the framework we developed to support companies in the creation of multimedia communication means, providing an instrument that users can exploit every time new communication channels have to be created. In the second part we describe how we adopt keyword search techniques coupled with Tag Cloud in order to summarize the results over the stored data.