Semantic analysis for tomorrow's audio-visual digital archives

PrestoSpace is a European-funded research project that aims at addressing the problem of decaying audio-visual archives throughout Europe by means of digitisation for preservation and access. One of the work areas within the project is Metadata Access and Delivery (MAD) which employs innovative methods of generating metadata for the digitised media in order to enhance the resulting archives and to ease access to the stored material. One such method is the use of automatic semantic analysis using natural language processing techniques in the process of creating analytical metadata for the preserved essence.