Multimedia Annotation System for Intelligent Search*

In this paper we present an overview of the intelligent multimedia annotation and search system MetaOn. The core objective is to construct and integrate semantically rich metadata, extracted from documents and images, to facilitate intelligent search and analysis. The proposed MetaOn framework involves, ontology-based information extraction and data mining, semi-automatic construction of domain specific ontologies, content-based image indexing and retrieval, and metadata management. The Hellenic history has been chosen as a challenging application case study.