Annodex is the open source technology that allows the creation of audiovisual content as 'webs' of audio and video, which are fully integrated with the text-based search and surfing capabilities of the World Wide Web.

Increasing activity and uptake of the open media technology has spurred creation of the foundation.

Head of the Annodex development team at the CSIRO ICT Center, Dr Silvia Pfeiffer, said the technology is an open framework for media content that enables audio and video to be shared as hyperlinkable and searchable Web resources allowing for Web 2.0 conformant media applications.

Pfeiffer said Annodex has been developed by the CeNTIE (Center for Networking Technologies for the Information Economy) project within the CSIRO ICT Center, but with a strong involvement of the open source community, in particular the Xiph.Org Foundation.

Dr Gautam Tendulkar, general manager, commercialization for CSIRO ICT, says that Annodex has now reached the stage where it requires an independent organization to support developer and user communities.