Excerpt from “Lessons Learned*” paper
The Informedia system attempted to be general purpose, serving a wide range of users accessing wide-ranging video data. In retrospect, this approach may be more limiting rather than liberating.
Many processing techniques, such as video skim creation, work well if heuristics can be applied based on the video belonging to a particular subclass.
Users don’t want to only find a video segment; they then want to do something with it—for example, integrating video into lesson plans and homework assignments. A library system needs to be user-centric and not just technology-driven.
*See IEEE Computer, February 1999, pp. 66-73.