Classifying Multimedia Resources Using Social Relationships

The complexity of managing multimedia data within extensive social networks is constantly increasing. In particular, the mass of shared user generated content and strong multimedia diversity lead to a vast amount of heterogeneous and unstructured information. To preserve accuracy, availability, and personalization of content provided to users, we introduce a framework realizing content classification and management based on metadata such as social relationships. The framework enables the easy development of multimedia authoring systems focused on flexible multimedia creation, distributed user collaboration, and convenient content retrieval. Finally, we describe "online community life (OCL)", a ubiquitous blogging portal for the distribution of multimedia content along virtual communities