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Work item: F.DC-CRMMS
Subject/title: Technical requirements and functional architecture for semantic content retrieval system in digital culture multimedia services
Status: Under study 
Approval process: AAP
Type of work item: Recommendation
Version: New
Equivalent number: -
Timing: 2028 (Medium priority)
Liaison: ITU-T SG17, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29
Supporting members: China Unicom, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), China Telecommunications Corporation,ZTE Corporation
Summary: Digital cultural multimedia services increasingly require content retrieval based on meaning and cultural context rather than keywords alone, including support for historical, geographic, multilingual and fine-grained multimedia queries. This Recommendation specifies the functional architecture and requirements for semantic content retrieval in digital cultural multimedia services. It covers query understanding, use of existing cultural information sources, fine-grained and cross-modal retrieval, result fusion and ranking, retrieval-result information, service fallback, retrieval-time authorization, privacy and security, and optional AI-enabled semantic capabilities. It applies to retrieval-time behaviour over existing information sources and does not cover the creation, annotation, storage or indexing of cultural content, the development or deployment of AI models, or the delivery of original content. It is applicable to cultural heritage institutions, digital cultural service providers and semantic retrieval service developers.
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Jinbo LI, Editor
Chuanyang MIAO, Editor
Hui YAN, Editor
Xiaolong ZHOU, Editor
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