Using SMIL to Encode Interactive, Peer-Level Multimedia Annotations

This paper discusses applying facilities in SMIL 2.0 to the problem of annotating multimedia presentations. Rather than viewing annotations as collections of (abstract) meta-information for use in indexing, retrieval or semantic processing, we view annotations as a set of peer-level content with temporal and spatial relationships that are important in presenting a coherent story to a user. The composite nature of the collection of media is essential to the nature of peer-level annotations: you would typically annotate a single media item much differently than that same media item in the context of a total presentation. This paper focuses on the document engineering aspects of the annotation system. We do not consider any particular user interface for creating the annotations or any back-end storage architecture to save/search the annotations. Instead, we focus on how annotations can be represented within a common document architecture and we consider means of providing document facilities that meet the requirements of our user model. We present our work in the context of a medical patient dossier example

Methods and Technologies for Digital Preservation of Analog Audio Collections

This paper is a consideration of some of the challenges libraries and other institutions face in the digitization of analog audio collections for preservation and access. The intent of this study is to demonstrate that such an existing analog audio collection can be digitized, described, stored, and preserved using currently available and emerging technologies. Consideration was accorded to a broad range of topics related to the creation of enduring digital audio collections. It is hoped that this effort will illuminate possible paths to successful preservation of audio collections while also vastly improving access to them. Furthermore, the study will demonstrate that libraries and other institutions that possess similar multimedia assets may have access to effective and economical means of transforming isolated and moribund materials into persistent, valuable, and widely available multimedia documents

Using SMIL to Encode Interactive, Peer-Level Multimedia Annotations

This paper discusses applying facilities in SMIL 2.0 to the problem of annotating multimedia presentations. Rather than viewing annotations as collections of (abstract) meta-information for use in indexing, retrieval or semantic processing, we view annotations as a set of peer-level content with temporal and spatial relationships that are important in presenting a coherent story to a user. The composite nature of the collection of media is essential to the nature of peer-level annotations: you would typically annotate a single media item much differently than that same media item in the context of a total presentation. This paper focuses on the document engineering aspects of the annotation system. We do not consider any particular user interface for creating the annotations or any back-end storage architecture to save/search the annotations. Instead, we focus on how annotations can be represented within a common document architecture and we consider means of providing document facilities that meet the requirements of our user model. We present our work in the context of a medical patient dossier example