Digital library system
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1. A digital library system comprising:
- a catalouging system having a catalogue of multimedia data comprising at least one catalogue element associated with a plurality of keywords identifying said multimedia data;
an access management system coupled to said cataloguing system; and
a distribution system coupled to said access management system.
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Abstract
The invention is a digital library system that includes: 1) a data capture mechanism that includes data transfer and cataloguing mechanisms, 2) an asset management system for access and storage management of data, and 3) a distribution system for distributing the data and system functionality. A data capture system includes a transfer system and a cataloguing system. The transfer system converts multimedia material that exists in analog form to a digital format. The cataloguing system catalogues data. The cataloguing system creates a catalogue that can be used to perform content-based searches. A content-based search retrieves data based on the ideas or concepts contained in the data. An asset management system is used to access the data using the catalogue created by the cataloguing system. A distribution facility can be used to transmit the data thus giving a user access to all of the data contained in the digital library system despite the user'"'"'s location.
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16 Claims
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1. A digital library system comprising:
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a catalouging system having a catalogue of multimedia data comprising at least one catalogue element associated with a plurality of keywords identifying said multimedia data; an access management system coupled to said cataloguing system; and a distribution system coupled to said access management system. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A digital library system comprising:
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a catalouging system having a catalogue of multimedia data comprising at least one catalogue element associated with a plurality of keywords identifying said multimedia data, said plurality of keywords being interrelated by one or more of associative, whole-part, and inheritance relationships; an access management system coupled to said cataloguing system; and a distribution system coupled to said access management system. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16)
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