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The FRAMES (Framework for Access to Multimedia Environments) project has been developing techniques and demonstrators that can be applied to the reuse, or multi-purposing, of digital video content. Reuse of video information is increasingly being seen as an important aspect of the management of digital media assets, both in terms of productivity enhancements in existing media archives, and in terms of value-added on-line services supporting new revenue opportunities.

Video content can be modelled in terms of a number of levels, including a combination of automatically detected video and audio characteristics and features (eg. camera motion, object motion, and number of speakers) and manually created descriptions. Active processes for searching semantic descriptions can then be accessed either by direct querying over the web, or using virtual video prescriptions containing embedded queries, routed to the FRAMES database system by a virtual video engine.

The FRAMES project recognises the importance of trials of demonstrators across the broadband network, and these will continue with the establishment of the ACSys Broadband Network (ABN) in the latter half of 1998.