Intelligent Multimedia Mind Maps to Support Media Pre-Production

摘要

To date, there are almost no tools that support the elaboration and research of project ideas in media pre-production. The typical tools that are being used are merely a browser and a simple text editor. Therefore, it is our goal to improve this pre-production process by structuring the multimedia and accompanying annotations found by the creator, by providing functionality that makes it easier to find appropriate multimedia in a more efficient way, and by providing the possibility to work together. To achieve these goals, intelligent multimedia mind maps are introduced. These mind maps offer the possibility to structure your multimedia information and accompanying annotations by creating relations between the multimedia. By automatic connecting to external sources, the user can rapidly search different information sources without visiting them one by one. Furthermore, the content that is added to the mind map is analyzed and enriched; these enrichments are then used to give the user extra recommendations based on the content of the current mind map. Subsequently, an architecture for these needs has been designed and implemented as an architectural concept. Finally, this architectural concept is evaluated positively by several people that are active in the media production industry.