The IMCOP System for Data Enrichment and Content Discovery and Delivery

Abstract

This paper presents an overview of the IMCOP system dedicated to data enrichment and content discovery and delivery. A representative client application -- the DEEP platform -- for which the IMCOP system can serve is also depicted. Foremost categories of IMCOP web services are described in detail and their goals are clarified. A concept of Complex Multimedia Objects derived from the MPEG-7 standard and standing, in parallel, for its extension, is also introduced. Finally, advantages of the IMCOP system, as well as IMCOP's current drawbacks, with an insight into proposals for their future improvement, are discussed.