The proposed topics for papers are as follows:

• Metadata in the broadcasting industry
• Metadata in the recording industry
• Metadata in libraries and archives
• Management of metadata
• Unique identification
• Metadata implementations in equipment
• Standards and related issues
• Feature extraction, indexing and retrieval
• Biometrics
• Voice recognition and speech-to-text
• Universal multimedia access technologies
• Metadata and audio formats
• Character sets for metadata exchange
• Usage environment description
• Digital rights management
• Controls on access to content
• Watermarking and encryption
• Content adaptation
• Content personalisation
• Electronic programme guides