Searching the Físchlár-NEWS archive on a mobile device

The Fischlar-NEWS system provides web-based access to an archive of digitally recorded TV News broadcasts over several months, and has been operational for over a year. Users can browse keyframes, search teletext and have streamed video playback of segments of news broadcasts to their desktops. This paper reports on the development of mFischlar-NEWS, a version of Fischlar-NEWS which operates on a mobile PDA over a wireless LAN connection. In the design and development of mFischlar-NEWS we have realised that mobile access to a digital library of video materials is more than just the desktop system on a smaller screen, and the functionality and role that information retrieval techniques play in the mFischlar-NEWS system are very different to what is present in the desktop system. The paper describes the design, interface, functionality and operational status of this mobile access to a video library.

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