ANNODEX-ing Broadcast TV News for Semantic Browsing and Retrieval

The development of a semantic web of text, images, structured information, and continuous media information including video and audio, depends on being able to annotate content with semantic meaning and then use that content description directly in applications. ANNODEX is a recently announced initiative to allow continuous media files to be integrated directly with their own content description, into one unified source. In this short paper we take a state of the art video indexing, browsing and retrieval system, F ÍSCHLÁR-NEWS, whose architecture and design is based on a separation of content from content description, and we re-engineer it using ANNODEX. In doing this we demonstrate the improvements this new approach makes over our system and the increased opportunities it offers in terms of functionality.