Abstract:
The contemporary burgeoning usage of digital movies,
photos, audio and text, their distribution through networks
both electronic and physical will be considered in the
context of a convergence of these media with a popular
interest in personal and community history and identity.
The paper introduces interdisciplinary research into human
memory as a context for understanding its relation to
machine memory and methods bf storing and retrieval. It
proposes an approach to indexing audio-visual media
utilising a time-space representational system, drawing
upon a real-world time-space representation as the
taxonomy of the indexing procedure.
An interactive experimental prototype, PathScape, will be
described and evaluated and further practice-based research
approaches to author-defindd storage and retrieval systems
will be outlined.
