MediaBank: Keyword Search and Tag Cloud Functionalities for aMultimedia Content Authoring Web Platform

The composition of multimedia presentations is atime- and resource-consuming task if not afforded ina well-defined manner. This is particularly true whenpeople having different roles and following differenthigh-level directives, collaborate in the authoringand assembling of a final product. For this reasonwe adopt the Select, Assemble, Transform andPresent (SATP) approach to coordinate thepresentation authoring and a tag cloud-based searchengine in order to help users in efficiently retrievinguseful assets. In the first of this paper we presentMediaPresenter, the framework we developed tosupport companies in the creation of multimediacommunication means, providing an instrument thatusers can exploit every time new communicationchannels have to be created. In the second part wedescribe how we adopt keyword search techniquescoupled with Tag Cloud in order to summarize theresults over the stored data.