MILOS: a multimedia content management system for multimedia digital library applications

MILOS is a multimedia content management system specialised to support multimedia digital library applications. MILOS provides applications with functionalities for the storage of arbitrary multimedia documents and their content based retrieval using arbitrary metadata models represented in XML. MILOS is flexible in the management of documents containing different types of data and content descriptions; it is efficient and scalable in the storage and content based retrieval of these documents.