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MADCOW: a Multimedia Digital Annotation System Paolo Bottoni, Roberta Civica, Stefano Levialdi, Laura Orso, Emanuele Panizzi, Rosa Trinchese Universita di Roma La Sapienza, Dipartimento di Informatica ` Via Salaria, 113, 00198 Roma, Italy (bottoni,levialdi,panizzi,trinchese)@di.uniroma1.it,rcivica@libero.it,laurorso@tin.it ABSTRACT it can be usefully put in the context of its possible usages, Digital annotation of multimedia documents adds informa- while allowing automated agents retrieve interesting pieces tion to a document (e.g. a web page) or parts of it (a multi- of knowledge, based on such descriptions. media object such as an image or a video stream contained This poses, however, the problem of creating rich descrip- in the document). Digital annotations can be kept private tions of the Web content to support such usages. While the or shared among different users over the internet, allowing manual authoring of these descriptions places an unbearable burden on the users, research on its automatic creation and discussions and cooperative work. We study the possibil- ity of annotating multimedia documents with objects which management is still in its infancy and has not yet produced are in turn of multimedial nature. Annotations can refer to universally accepted solutions. whole documents or single porti