WP 6: Demonstration

This demonstration WP aims at putting the use case of collaborative production in the real world of internet and broadcast. This is no more a laboratory work. The partners are in the real world “live”. The WebTV Portal is managed by the Partners, users are real users.

It’s of course the main target of the project for all the partners concerned by new development in production ! How to describe the new production process, how to manage new content production, how to organise the work-flow, how adding a real value to FIGEE content as shown in the broadcast world today.

This is the IASA (International Association for Sound and Audiovisual Archives) classical model still in a working draft for the description of the broadcaster activities (in synchronisation with the OAIS model).



In the production area :

  • the Registration assigns a label to a project; gives a brief description for purposes of identification, producing an identifying or descriptive marker that is attached to an object. It has an ontological role in the global process.
  • the Modelling part is the activity of representing something, it’s acquisition of audiovisual material is this case.
  • Storage is the process of storing information in a computer memory or storage unit.

On the exploitation side, the Presentation part is the act of using telecommunication tools for making something publicly available on a display (presenting news or other information by broadcasting or printing it). Live production is going straight from Modelling to Presentation ! The project will not take this issue in account .

The query instance is questioning, pose a question in an interactive environment, retrieve information in a DAM-MAM. And Servicing is the organization of apparatus, appliances, for supplying some accommodation required by the presentation activity of broadcasting and distributing audiovisual objects.

The Open Semantic Bus is a key component of a service oriented architecture, providing low-cost, standards-based integration between systems for greater IT flexibility and responsiveness. OSB will allow broadcast to more easily manage the complexity of their heterogeneous environment, without vendor lock-in to proprietary technologies, and through a global semantic management.

With the WP 6, the partners should be able to demonstrate to the IASA, that the major activity which is today from modelling to presentation will definitely change in an interaction between registration/ storage/ querying activities. This will be a major change in the global view of viewers getting involved in the interactive and collaborative production.

Moreover the project should show that there is not a market "broadcast" of the passed and an "interactive" market of the future ! There is a major interest to maintain tools which offer the advantage of being able to address itself to an undifferentiated public for all that relates to the communities! The mode "feed and pick" should continue to cohabit beside the mode "Pick and feed" and not to remove it!

For all the active companies in the multi-media field, it is of capital importance to be able to have a platform in the medium term making it possible to produce and exploit numerical audio-visual matters.

 

For the partners "content", the WP 6 of the MediaMap project has primarily 5 aims:

  • To show that it is possible to create new dynamic with interactive and semantic Production and Exploitation of contents. With this intention, to implement USE and OSB in order to validate a platform of collaborative production between producer and users in an interactive way.
  • To create sustainable information via semantic containers supporting cross computerization and the re-use of contents (user Community):
    • Contribution to a sustainable numerical archive of an important inheritance
    • to define an architecture being able to be used as reference for a “Legal Deposit” of copyright which challenges certain European Community spheres.
  • To offer an intelligent browsing in rich Multimedia contents (video, audio, text, pictures, object, references) to the users of these platforms and to validate the fact that beyond different languages, there is a audio-visual and cultural base, for making exchanges.
  • To carry out during the phases of demonstration a benchmarking for this kind of activities
  • To validate a management of the rights suitable with these new practices

 

This workpackage includes :

  • Definition of a series of programs (with 2 or 3 languages)
  • Ingest and Shooting with camcorder 2.0
  • Platform of editing and repurposing upon the Open Semantic Bus
  • Creation of a WebTV portal
  • Creation and integration of a new user interface more web 3.0, Management of the users contribution, personalisation of the WebTV channel for each user depending of language and profile with powerful search engine for requests

The WP6 manages the edition committee, the administration and moderation, the planning of the publication, etc.