DMS-1 Driven Data Model to Enable a Semantic Middleware for Multimedia Information Retrieval in a Broadcaster

This article presents the motivation and the implementation of a semantic model developed to support diverse semantic services in a multimedia asset management system in a broadcaster. The model is mainly driven by DMS-1 (descriptive metadata scheme) standard, which is part of the multimedia exchange format standard defined by the broadcast industrial community and according to our knowledge we propose the first implementation of it using the OWL language. This model has been complemented with other models coming from the academia in order to cover the diverse nature of the different semantic needs identified in the whole workflow.