Digital Video Archives: Managing Through Metadata

As analog video collections are digitized and new video is created in digital form, computer users will have unprecedented access to video material—getting what they need, when they need it, wherever they happen to be. Such a vision assumes that video can be adequately stored and distributed with appropriate rights management, as well as indexed to facilitate effective information retrieval. The latter point is the focus of this paper: how can metadata be produced and associated with video archives to unlock their contents for end users?