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Variable linkage for multimedia metadata schema matching

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Today there are many media sharing applications that use diverse metadata formats to describe media resources. This leads to interoperability issues in cataloguing, searching and annotation. This situation poses schema matching algorithms in the eye of the storm of metadata interoperability. In this paper we present two different solutions for multimedia metadata schema matching using variable linkage algorithms. These methods consist in directly comparing the data values stored in the different metadata variables, allowing to overcome the inherent limitations of schema-level matching approaches. We show the feasibility of these methods through some experiments with real metadata information extracted from the image hosting websites Deviantart, Flickr and Picasa.

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This work has been partly supported by the Spanish government TEC2008-06692-C02-01 and ARES CONSOLIDER INGENIO 2010 CSD2007-00004.

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    Jordi Nin, Ruben Tous & Jaime Delgado

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Nin, J., Tous, R. & Delgado, J. Variable linkage for multimedia metadata schema matching. Multimed Tools Appl 68, 845–861 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-012-1094-0

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