Annodex.net promou diverses especificacions que facilitarien la integració d'àudio i vídeo en el web: 1) una extensió dels URI per poder apuntar a intervals de temps p. e. dins d'un videograma, 2) un Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) que permetria anotar (i per tant indexar i cercar) continguts multimèdia i 3) un format de fitxer basat en Ogg capaç d'encabir bandes d'àudio, vídeo i dades.

Hi ha una Overview del projecte, una History i tota mena d'informació. També desenvolupen programari obert que implementa les especificacions.

The simplicity of html, http, and URIs has enabled the ubiquitous, distributed, world-wide data network we all value so highly. However, the World Wide Web is a predominantly text based information and community space. Some data is still being handled as "dark matter" on the Web: data whose content is easily perceived by humans, but badly handled by computers. One such type of data is time-continuously sampled data like audio and video.


Annodex.net is developing open standards and open source tools to build webs of distributed media, hooking into the existing World Wide Web infrastructure of Web searching, Web proxying, and Web browsing.