Accessing Audiovisual Heritage: A Roadmap for Collaborative Innovation

This paper presents the audiovisual content access on the Internet. The use of multimedia on the Internet is large and growing at an extraordinary rate. By 2015, one-million minutes of video content will cross the Internet every second. Audiovisual archives are investing in large scale digitization efforts of their analog holdings and, in parallel, ingesting an ever-increasing amount of born-digital files in their digital deposits. Digitization opens up new access paradigms and boosts reuse of audiovisual content. Query-log analyses show the shortcomings of manual annotations.