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Our information society is being overflowed with digital data of various kinds. In order for the users to find relevant information, novel digital repositories should provide search mechanisms that

This paper presents a short state of the art overview of personalized content access and retrieval, which is extended into a description offuture trends in this domain. Some attention is devoted to upcoming standards far user modelling (MPEG-7 user profile), standards enabling universal access to content (MPEG-21) and a brief look at the mechanisms for semantic descriptions of content. These ideas and technologies should simplifi and enhance future development of personalized multimedia systems.

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