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As part of the developments and extensions that I have made to the Berkeley Video-on-Demand system, I have begun developing several tools which will make it easier to enter information into the the Berkeley Video Database.
The first tool was bvde: the Berkeley Video Database Editor. It allows a user to add and modify information within the postgres database which manages the Berkeley Video-on-Demand system. In order to provide reasonable access to the volume of information in the database, bvde is organized in a heirarchical fashion whereby a tree of data associated with a particular class can be viewed. For example, a document in the database can be viewed with its subordinate bibliography, people and segmentation information available as deeper within the tree.
Bvde currently allows a user to add new document, people and keyframe information to the database. Support for more complex structures, such as scripts and other stream formats, will be added as Vineet Gossain expands the tool and uses it to enter additional content into the VOD system.