Lansdowne Lectures Video Markup

The Lansdowne Lectures Video Markup allowed an author to add transcript and event timelines to a digital video. The transcript was searchable and each instance of the search word found by a query was presented to the user in the context of the sentence containing it. The user could then click on the instance of the search word to go to the appropriate location in the video.

A user could also search across the transcripts of all the lectures in the database. The system allowed the author or user to create bookmarks which were saved on the server and could be retrieved later by other users. Our prototype data was taken from two lectures in the Lansdowne Lecture series at the University of Victoria.