Refocusing multimedia research on short clips

The multimedia authoring research agenda today, is searching for the proverbial killer application. We believe that multimedia´s killer app might already be at hand-and it´s focused around audio and video clips. But researchers aren´t addressing critical open research issues because of the current focus on commercially produced, feature-length videos as an experimental corpus. The article focuses on the notion of multimedia clips, and most especially their retrieval, as a key enabler for the wide adoption of multimedia.