Interface Concepts for the Open Video Project.
Gary Geisler, Gary Marchionini, Michael L. Nelson, Richard Spinks, Meng Yang · 2001
The Open Video Project is an on-going effort to develop an open source digital video collection that can be used by the information retrieval, digital library, and digital video research communities and ultimately serve an even broader audience. The collection currently contains about 350 video segments from 40 different titles, with a range of characteristics. We believe developing and using this collection as a shared video testbed can help advance progress in video retrieval research by fostering a collaborative research environment. In this paper we first discuss the underlying challenges of compiling and maintaining an open source digital video collection, and then describe the user interface strategies we are developing to enable people to explore and retrieve video from the collection effectively and efficiently.