Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: Survival in Infromation Deluge -- 1.1 Digital Content Technology -- 1.2 Problems of On-Line Content -- 1.3 Extension of Digital Content -- 1.4 Organization of this Book -- References -- 2. Transcoding: A Technique to Transform Digital Content -- 2.1 Representation of Digital Content -- 2.2 Content Adaptation -- 2.3 Transcoding by Proxy Servers -- 2.4 Content Personalization -- 2.5 Framework for Transcoding -- 2.6 More Advanced Transcoding -- References -- 3. Annotation: A Technique to Extend Digital Content -- 3.1 Frameworks of Metadata -- 3.2 Creation of Annotations -- 3.3 Applications of Annotation -- 3.4 More on Annotation -- References -- 4. Semantic Annotation and Transcoding: Towards Semantically Sharable Digital Content -- 4.1 Semantics and Grounding -- 4.2 Content Analysis Techniques -- 4.3 Semantic Annotation -- 4.4 Semantic Transcoding -- 4.5 Text Transcoding -- 4.6 Image Transcoding -- 4.7 Voice Transcoding -- 4.8 Multimedia Transcoding -- 4.9 More Advanced Applications -- 4.10 Concluding Remarks -- References -- 5. Future Directions of Digital Content Technology -- 5.1 Content Management and Distribution for Media Businesses -- 5.2 Intelligent Content with Agent Technology -- 5.3 Situated Content with Ubiquitous Computing -- 5.4 Towards Social Information Infrastructures -- 5.5 Final Remarks -- References -- Author -- Index.