Storybook: A Tool for the Semi-automatic Creation of Book Trailers

Multimedia storytelling is an effective and engaging method to convey information in multiple domains. Specifically, book trailers -video advertisements for books- positively influence the desire to learn and the motivation to read. This work describes the design and implementation of Storybook, a tool for the semi-automatic creation of book trailers aiming to support storytelling for digital libraries. Storybook supports an expert by gathering relevant crowd-sourced multimedia content, which, arranged as stories, can be used to showcase a book in the form of video clips. Crucially, the expert controls how the content is finally combined and edited rather than offering a fully automated process. In an early informal evaluation, experts consider the method favourably.