CONTENTUS—technologies for next generation multimedia libraries Automatic multimedia processing for semantic search

An ever-growing amount of digitized content urges libraries and archives to integrate new media types from a large number of origins such as publishers, record labels and film archives, into their existing collections. This is a challenging task, since the multimedia content itself as well as the associated metadata is inherently heterogeneous—the different sources lead to different data structures, data quality and trustworthiness. This paper presents the contentus approach J. Nandzik (B) · N. Flores-Herr Acosta Consult GmbH, Zeißelstraße 15 HH, 60318 Frankfurt am Main, Germany e-mail: [email protected] N. Flores-Herr e-mail: [email protected] B. Litz · A. Löhden Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Informationstechnik, Adickesallee 1, 60322 Frankfurt am Main, Germany B. Litz e-mail: [email protected] A. Löhden e-mail: [email protected] I. Konya · D. Baum · A. Bergholz Fraunhofer IAIS, Schloss Birlinghoven, 53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany I. Konya e-mail: [email protected] D. Baum e-mail: [email protected] A. Bergholz e-mail: [email protected] D. Schönfuß mufin GmbH, Büro Dresden, August-Bebel-Straße 36, 01219 Dresden, Germany e-mail: [email protected]