The research topic “documentation and indexing"" is concerned with technologies that facilitate the preparation of audiovisual collections for end users. This preparatory stage includes, for example, the segmentation, indexing, documentation and organisation of content, and aims to facilitate its use in various ways such as excerpts sales or on line services .

To that end, various IT applications are in development to allow the testing of automated analytical tools such as voice transcription, face detection or segmentation. These tools are applied, for example, in excerpt searches, in the production of programme collections, or in the documentation of news and documentary programmes. In each case, the focus is to adapt the technologies to the selected contents and to the end users needs.

The topic is also concerned with development processes for such applications as well as the underlying software and IT language environments.