Abstract: Systems and methods for structuring metadata associated with digital media content such as images and videos are disclosed. Use of an existing hierarchical taxonomy provides a set of structured metadata to organize unstructured data stored in an electronic media archive. As digital media content is submitted to the archive, metadata keywords are user-selected from the existing taxonomy to identify and describe the digital media content, and to position the content within the hierarchical structure. The selected metadata keywords can then be automatically associated with synonyms and related terms to build an ontological network that facilitates efficient retrieval of the content when searching the electronic media archive. Each node in the taxonomy is then linked to its foreign language counterparts, allowing the content to be located in an international search.

Abstract: The invention relates to a system for managing and processing digital media by means of an electronic data processing installation. The system consists of a data bank, in which digital media such as pictures, texts, charts, product data etc. are filed and managed in a standardized, neutral data bank format. The different digital media can be converted into the data bank format by means of suitable input and output filters. The media are managed in the data bank in the form of linked data objects. The linkages of the data objects define the layout of documents which can be output for publication purposes by means of suitable output routines in different output formats such as, for example Postscript and HTML.