  With the increased digitalisation of our society, new and emerging forms of
data present new values and opportunities for improved data driven multimedia
services, or even new solutions for managing future global pandemics (i.e.,
Disease X). The results are somewhat unexpected. Despite the special
relationship between the US and the UK, there is not much evidence of
collaboration in research on this topic. Similarly, despite the negative media
publicity on the current relationship between the US and China (and the US
sanctions on China), the research on this topic seems to be growing strong.
However, it would be interesting to repeat this exercise after a few years and
compare the results. It is possible that the effect of the current US sanctions
on China has not taken its full effect yet.
