Distributed audio-visual archives network (DiVAN)

Abstract

The ESPRIT project DiVAN (EP 24956) aims at the building of a distributed audio-visual library system for TV broadcasters and video archives owners. The DiVAN system provides facilities to effectively, digitize, annotate, organize, store and access raw material in a coherent content-based manner, on top of high-speed wide area communication networks. Also, the project aims to demonstrate and assess the applicability and acceptability of the proposed system, through field trials on a DiVAN-based infrastructure interconnecting the archives of the users of the partnership, i.e. INA, RAI, and ERT. The consortium consists of industrial partners (i.e. INTRACOM, TECMATH), research institutes (i.e. ICS-FORTH, INRIA, Tech. Un. of Darmstadt) and users (i.e. Institut National de l'Audiovisuel-INA, Radiotelevisione Italiana-RAI and Greek National Broadcaster-ERT).