METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR SEARCHING DIGITAL CONTENTS BASED ON METADATA OF SAMPLE ELEMENTS

摘要

A solution is proposed for searching digital contents (such as images) in a data processing system. Each digital content is associated with metadata that describes it; the metadata includes a set of (one or more) fields each one adapted to take a set of (one or more) values. A corresponding method (A1-A9) starts with the step of providing (A9) a set of sample digital contents (such as resulting from a previous search). One ore more values (or part thereof) of one or more fields of the sample digital contents are selected - such as by dragging corresponding graphical representations towards a selection widget (A1-A3). It is then possible to retrieve (A4-A9) a set of digital contents, which correspond to the selected parts of the selected values of the selected fields (such as by combining them into a query).