Abstract

In this article we present a proposal for sequence based audiovisual markup and retrieval which can be applied to information management in television. To achieve this we analyze and study audiovisual information on TV, and from this knowledge we generate a vocabulary for markup which might ease and improve information retrieval, providing direct access to sequences according to parameters such as distinguishing among visualized information and referenced information, which provides a working framework better adapted to the domain of audiovisual documentation.

Abstract

Television is becoming digital, as are TV archives and archival research. Digitisation of previously archived footage is a slow, expensive process that requires significant public funding. This fact, together with new technological developments, favours the opening of major archives to the general public (BBC, INA, B&G, etc.). For TV stations, digitising and media asset management (MAM) systems offer new tools and generate a new work environment, both for reporters and archival research.