MILOS: a General Purpose Multimedia Content Management System

This report describes the MILOS Multimedia Content Management System: a general purpose software component tailored to support design and effective implementation of any digital library application. MILOS supports the storage and content based retrieval of any multimedia documents whose descriptions are provided by using arbitrary metadata models represented in XML. MILOS is flexible in the management of documents containing different types of data and content descriptions; it is efficient and scalable in the storage and content based retrieval of these documents. The report illustrates the MILOS system within the Italian Project VICE. However, the solution adopted is able to support the management of different metadata descriptions of multimedia documents in the same repository. For this reason, we illustrate the experiments performed by using the MILOS system to archive documents belonging to four different and heterogenous collections which contain news agencies, scientific papers, and audio/video documentaries.