This research project is an extension of the “Digital Museum of Taiwan’s Social and Humanities Video Archive” project (http://www.sinica.edu.tw/~video), which was a collaborated project of Taipei National University of the Arts and Academia Sinica. Based on the video archive established in the “Digital Museum of Taiwan’s Social and Humanities Video Archive” project, we have worked together with Wordpedia.com, a subsidiary of Yuan-Liou Publishing Co., to achieve the goal of establishing a value-added video archive. The video footages in the video archive of the “Digital Museum of Taiwan’s Social and Humanities Video Archive” project are currently retrievable by keywords and spoken documents. Metadata in it are also implemented and are in accordance with international standards. Thus, a system to allow users to browse, retrieve and store video clips freely in our video archive is developed. Users can, then, edit these streamable clips nonlinearly on the web.

An e-commerce platform is also established. After registration, users can perform the above-mentioned retrieving, editing and streaming functions, and transact on the web if desire. Users will have a choice of either to download video clips directly or to decide which format (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, or Betacam) to purchase on-line or off-line. A business transaction is thus performed conveniently.

<source: The final report of this project (July 2004)>