Enhancing Video Navigation with Existing Alternate Representations

We describe FRANK, an application that we have developed for remote browsing of film archives. FRANK uses alternate representations of video in the form of text, image, or structured data that have a time-based mapping. We describe the motivation for the project, the work processes of the users, and the operation of the resulting prototype. Finally we suggest some techniques for deriving timecodes in the absence of time-stamped alternate representations.