XML for video library publishing
When faced with the problem of publishing a large store of metadata describing a library of video clips, the obvious answer for us was to develop an XML based system. We designed an RDBMS to store the data in Access, with forms to enter, navigate and export to XML. The client interface we developed uses W3C DOM standard tree navigation and node set methods and works in the major web browsers which support this, providing a drill-down-by-filter type of experience.
With these tools, our system allows data entry, storage, export to removable media and platform independent searching; in our case used for publishing a video clip library to removable hard disk.