A Collection-Oriented Metadata Framework for Digital Images

A digital photo can "tell a thousand words" through the use of its metadata and as it is usually part of a collection, metadata management, reuse, propagation&inference could be achieved via its association with a collection. However, there is not much work on metadata management, reuse, propagation&inference, particularly on a group basis. In this paper, we proposed a collection-oriented metadata framework which provides a basis for metadata management, reuse, propagation&inference and demonstrated the utility of such a framework