An Integrated Multiple Media Portal with Semiautomatic Editing Features

The emerging multiple media portals accessed by a variety of terminals require semiand fully automatic procedures for managing the material. The IMU trial system, developed in this work, automatises parts of the news content acquirement and processing work of the portal web master. The IMU active proxy server extracts the metadata from news web sites and from the television news broadcasts through video analysis making an automatic classification and linking of related articles and TV clips possible. The deeply integrated material is partioned into personalisable news composites, channels. The automatically computed event and media calendar allows for a new type of integration of news and up-coming events. The news content is refined by setting up filters for monitoring of the business environment. The content is accessed from PC, TV mobile phones and can be downloaded in voice synthesized form to MP3 player as a service to the blind. To balance the automatic procedures with journalistic judgement, we created web tools for journalists to control and override the automatic operations and for creating new content. The community feature enables groups to share news and to discuss topics internally.