Metadata in digital video repositories: An analysis on author-generated metadata

Abstract

The growth of digital content generation and its access by the general public have, for the past few years, promoted the importance of resources' metadata, and enhanced the debate on their generation and quality. The improvement of new technologies and users needs have led to new metadata generation practices, which include the author-generated metadata. By studying the current literature on the subject we analyzed the author-generated metadata quality used on a given IPTV service. From the results of this study we propose an alternative methodology for insertion of metadata by the service user, where an auto-complete engine is applied aiming to enhance the system's metadata quality.