Content Management Mobile Application using a Metadata Cloud Server

Abstract

The dissertation proposed subject is an implementation of a Metadata Cloud Server, which can communicate with clients and process Metadata from given contents and show this information in state of the art and innovative ways. The contents can be stored in different kinds of services, with a focus on Dropbox for this project. These types of content are crucial in people’s lives in terms of culture and entertainment and how they are managed is important. By extracting Metadata that already exists in the contents or processing the Metadata in more complex ways like Smart Albums for Photos or Document Indexing, it is possible to give and present the content in different, more useful ways then simple lists or views. By building a complex Server application that communicates with the Metadata database and is accessible by REST API, it will be possible for any kind of client application to query the server and get the location of the content. Cloud Storage services don’t usually support smart features or fast content browsing apart from regular Operating System folder like structure. By building a system as a complement to the Cloud Storage system it is possible for the user to access their data in more state of the art ways.