The software according to the invention incorporates a glossary management tool that makes it easy for each client to customize terminology to the needs of a particular business. With this tool, termed a glossary manager, a company can customize a number of feature names in the system to provide a more familiar context for their users. A system administrator can also customize the manner in which "thumbnail" or "preview" images are presented. The system performs clustering on search queries, and searches media records multi-modally, using two or more approaches such as image searching and text searching. An administrator can tune search parameters. Two or more streams of metadata may be aligned and correlated with a media file, facilitating later searching. The system evaluates itself. It folds popularity information into rankings of search results.
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application is a divisional of U.S. application Ser. No. 10/063,409, filed Apr. 21, 2002 now U.S. Pat. No. 6,922,691, which is a continuation of international application number PCT/US01/26841 designating the United States, filed Aug. 28, 2001, incorporated herein by reference, which claims priority from U.S. application Ser. No. 60/228,837, filed Aug. 28, 2000, now expired, incorporated herein by reference.
