Searching the FíschlárNEWS Archive on a mobile device.pdf

Searching the Físchlár-NEWS Archive on a Mobile Device Hyowon Lee and Alan F. Smeaton Centre for Digital Video Processing Dublin City University Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland. {hlee, asmeaton} @computing.dcu.ie Abstract The Físchlár-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 mFíschlár-NEWS, a version of Físchlár-NEWS which operates on a mobile PDA over a wireless LAN connection. In the design and development of mFíschlár-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 mFíschlár-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. 1. The Físchlár NEWS Archive The Físchlár-NEWS Archive is an online repository of daily evening TV news which is broadcast by the Irish National broadcast channel, RTE1. The system automatically records and processes news programmes along with their teletext (close-captioned subtitle of what is said during the programme) every evening and allows web-based access to the indexed programmes by both browsing and searching (querying). Searching is an important access mechanism for any archive of considerable size, and this is also true in the Físchlár-NEWS Archive. All news programmes in the archive are accessible by browsing the reverse