In this paper, PANORAMA, an integrated system for digitization, annotation, storage and retrieval of audiovisual data and their associated description is presented. The information model has been heavily influenced by the evolving MPEG-7 standard for description of multimedia content. XML schema has been used for defining the data structures and XML for representation of content – related information. A hierarchical and object – oriented XML database has been utilized for storage and re-trieval. Subsystems for multimedia archiving, annotation and re-trieval have also been constructed.