These tools will allow any user to add media elements to the storage system and access them later. This database must provide version control functionality and handling of various meta-data associated with different representations and must also link seamlessly to several large media services, such as streaming media servers and archive servers. BMRC researchers continue to work on the storage systems, databases and interfaces to deal with these problems. The Carousel tool is an authoring tool designed to allow the end-user to author web page video galleries. The video gallery web page has key frames and other information about the video layed out in a two-dimensional table.
Users can view the collection and play selected videos by clicking on the key frame.
With Carousel a user can quickly create web pages to access and display existing video content. Users can access a variety of templates and settings using dialogs and other GUI elements to create their custom video gallery pages. The system eliminates the complexity involved in handling a variety of different video formats.