AMPHORE - A MOVIE DOCUMENTATION WORKBENCH

AMPHORE is a client server system for the documentation of moving imag e material. The server mainly is formed by a full text database with S GML capabilities while the clients are PC working places equipped with software for documentation and retrieval of movies and/or movie parts . In AMPHORE, the complete film material is provided in digital form a nd thus can be used for content-oriented documentation and retrieval i n a convenient way. This enables the documentalist to build very detai led indexes allowing access by sequence or even by shot. The film desc riptions are based upon a syntactical, thesaurus-controlled indexing w hich reflects the films' diverse action strings and levels.