Segmentation, video data modeling, and annotation are indispensable operations necessary for creating and populating a video database. To support such video databases, annotation data can be collected as metadata for the database and subsequently used for indexing and query evaluation. In this paper we describe the design and development of a video annotation engine, called Vane, intended to solve this problem as a domain-independent video annotation application. Using the Vane tool, the annotation of raw video data is achieved through metadata collection. This process, which is performed semi-automatically, produces tailored SGML documents whose purpose is to describe information about the video content. These documents constitute the metadatabase component of the video database. The video data model which has been developed for the metadata, is as open as possible for multiple domainspecific applications. The tool is currently in use to annotate a video archive comprised of educational and news video content.

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