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26/05/2005 Research Infrastructures - 'eInfrastructure: Grid initiatives‘ FP6-2005-INFRASTRUCTURES-7

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DIMMI Project

a DIgital Multi Media Infrastructure

- Project Idea –

Walter Allasia - [email protected] Manieri -

[email protected]


The problem

We are going towards a Digital Representation of every thing

The Digital CONVERGENCE

Today every Research Community deals with Digital Repositories and handles heterogeneous Multimedia essences

Working with Multi Media Materials and Digital Repositories REQUIRES

high Computing power Storage capabilities Bandwidth availability


The available technology

Multimedia Research Projects provides solutions and competences for feature extraction, content analysis, semantic analysis, digital format representation, metadata management.

GRID enabled Digital Libraries demonstrate how dynamic virtual research groups can collaborate and access shared knowledge

GRID Infrastructures provide computing and storage features

Networking Infrastructures provides needed connectivity


The solution: DIMMI project

DIMMI main objective is to integrate available GRID and Multimedia technologies in order to create a test bed to support Research Communities dealing with Digital Repositories (Multimedia Research Communities, Social Science and Humanities Communities, Broadcasters, Training Centres, Universities, etc)

DIMMI will demonstrate the improvement of Multimedia Management using e-Infrastructures creating new exploitable scenario and business opportunities


Contacts

Walter Allasia EURIXGROUP Multimedia and Innovation Technologies

Department - www.eurixgroup.com [email protected]

Andrea Manieri Engineering Research Laboratory – www.eng.it [email protected]


Main Issues

Deployment of an open test infrastructure for New Media Research Communities, integrating and validating the state-of-the-art technology in Multimedia research, validations methods, demonstrator environments and IPR management.

The Project will investigate synergies between Media and Audio visual communities and Grid technology centres, analysing the possibility to extend and exploit Grid infrastructure in Media context.

In addition the Project will provide an open based Grid solution for the on-demand creation of Digital Media Labs allowing Research Communities to store and process large images, audios and videos, and to manage their IPR on a secure and distributed environment.


The approach

A Pragmatic Approach: To implement an evolutionary Multimedia Infrastructure

extending the current grid-based Digital Library Infrastructure (i.e. DILIGENT)

To experiment and test Grid Infrastructures for Multimedia paving the way towards a multidisciplinary European Grid Infrastructure

To aggregate a large number of key research actors in Media and Audiovisual communities the project will ensure a proper sustainable plan for Grid infrastructures.


European Impact

Europe needs of Innovation will require to re-think the relations between Science, Industry and Media in order to meet challenges of the new century.

The digital convergence and the knowledge society will require new tools and instrument to integrate media and ITC.

On-demand digital libraries, allowed by production grids will enhance the required capabilities to archive, process and retrieve an huge amount of digital multimedia data

Production grid will benefits from serving new heterogeneous community receiving feedback on real usage scenarios and possibly new requirements (e.g. DRM)

Tests on management and integration of Metadata coming out from heterogeneous Research Communities will provide an innovative exploitable Scenario


DIMMI proposed solutions

DIMMI Project extends current grid-based infrastructure with services enabling researcher to:

Deal with heterogeneous metadata structures in order to managing distributed “information retrieval system” based on GRID

Capture and extract information from any media Store in a scalable, efficient and device-independent

infrastructure Access and Retrieve any piece of information Aggregate and distribute within the Research Community


Technology availability

Audiovisual storage, access and retrieval actual facilities allow preservation and distribution through the Internet

on-demand Digital Libraries, allow to manage content in a easy and cost effective way, (i.e. DILIGENT)

European production Grids are ready and solution customised for specific Research Communities can be created to meet any Research needs (i.e. EGEE)

High speed communication network and bandwidth enhancement open new opportunities (i.e. GEANT and G2)

Now it is possible to integrate all these results and going ahead in a new step in using infrastructure and ITC technologies


Technical advancement

Analysis and tests of “Metadata management” on current GRID infrastructures for integrating and accessing features of Research Communities.

The Test-bed will provide an real user-friendly system for the New Media Research communities, including usage and usability trials

On a technical point of view the Project will enhance the State of the Art improving Grid-based Digital Libraries infrastructure with the following functionalities:

Specific features for storing large audio visual file Different Image format codification exchange IPR management Video Annotation and Feature extraction Content Management System for audiovisual format


Technical Architecture

GRID INFRASTRUCTURE

Research

Community

Research

Community

Research

Community

Content

Providers

Others

UI UI UI

UI UI

M3F M3F

M3F M3F M3F

DIMMI

TEST BED

MultiMedia Metadata

Management Framework

Directory

Services Routing

Services

Mapping

Services


Effective IPR

We want to exploit production GRID infrastructures in order to verify the content control feasibility on digital material coming out from the infrastructure itself or outside it with a predefined service quality level.

Without intellectual property right control, creators will not have certainty of revenue from their creative acts, hence art and research investments could be affected

Legal Frameworks (national or international) and copyright policies are effective if and only if they are supported by traceability and digital content analysis tools.

No Digital Rights Management, no exploitation!


IPR solution

Authenticity tools are so complex (matching against anything) and require huge computing and storage features as well as bandwidth availability.

Intellectual Property Rights are defined by Author and will be represented in a suitable metadata format

System will certify any new data authenticity during its upload and will control against any other new item (or part of it) at runtime.

We can figure out the system as a service running on a federation of production GRIDs controlling their data, extracting features and matching copyrighted materials under author predefined rules.


DIMMI

IPR Architecture

Certified XMultimedia

Data

Authenticity

recognition

IPR Index

Multimedia

Data

Authenticity

recognitionGRID INFRASTRUCTURE

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