How Metadata Enables Enriched File-Based Production Workflows

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Journal Article
Content Type: Original Research
Abbreviated Title: SMPTE Mot. Imag. J
Volume: 119, No. 4, pp. 27–38
Abstract: As file-based production technology gains industry understanding and commercial products are becoming common-place, many broadcasting and production facilities are commencing re-engineering processes towards file-based production workflows. Sufficient attention, however, should also be spent on the development and incorporation of standardized metadata to reach the full potential of such file-based production environments. In addition to its initial meaning, metadata and underlying data models can represent much more than just some meta-information about audiovisual media assets. In fact, properly modeled metadata can provide the structure that holds various media assets together and guides creative people through production workflows and complex media production tasks. Metadata should hence become a first-class citizen in tomorrow's file-based production facilities The aim of this paper is to show how standardized metadata standards and data models, complemented by custom metadata developments, can be employed practically in a file-based media production environment in order to construct a coherently integrated production platform. The types of metadata are discussed that are exchanged between different parts of the system, which enables the implementation of an entire production workflow and provides seamless integration between different components.
Publication Date: 2010-05-01
DOI: 10.5594/J11380
ISSN: Print: 1545-0279 | Electronic: 2160-2492
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/J11380
Author(s): Dieter Van Rijsselbergen
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Dieter Van Rijsselbergen is a researcher and Ph.D. candidate in computer science and engineering at the Multimedia Lab of Ghent University in Belgium. He received an M.S. degree in computer science from Ghent University in 2005. In the past five years, Van Rijsselbergen has been involved in a number of projects that seek to enable advanced methods of media production by means of extensive use of structured production metadata and file-based production platforms. His research interests and areas of publication include IT-based broadcasting and drama media production, standardization, video coding, and GPU-driven signal processing.
Maarten Verwaest
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Maarten Verwaest learned Information Technology on the job at Framatome Connectors, where he helped introduce Pro-engineer as a tool for model-driven development while in charge of the mechanics department. Since 1999, Verwaest has been a technology expert at VRT and as such is responsible for the design and implementation of several large-scale projects, including an integrated “Digital Newsroom Production System,” media asset management, and web content management systems, and a large-scale content delivery network serving broadband applications. Between 2005 and 2009, he has been responsible for research and development related to “virtual modeling” and search technology for audiovisual media production. Recently, Verwaest founded Limecraft, a provider of media production services in the cloud and a valorization partner of the technologies discussed in this paper. He is also author of several distinguished publications and is a well-known invited speaker to conferences worldwide.
Erik Mannens
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Erik Mannens received an M.Sc. degree in electro-mechanical engineering from KAHO Ghent in 1992 and an M.Sc. degree in computer science from K.U. Leuven University in 1995. Before joining IBBT-Multimedia Lab in 2005 as project manager, he was a software engineering consultant and Java architect for more than a decade. His major expertise is centered on broadcasting, IDTV and (semantic) web development. He is involved in several projects as senior researcher and is finishing up his PhD on Semantic News Production. He's co-chair of W3C's Media Fragments Working Group and is actively participating in other W3C's semantic web standardization activities. He's also an active member of the technical committees of ACM MultiMedia, SAMT, and MAReSO.
Rik Van de Walle
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Rik Van de Walle received masters and Ph.D. degrees in engineering from Ghent University, Belgium, in July 1994 and February 1998, respectively. After a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Arizona, he returned to Ghent, became a full-time lecturer in 2001, and founded the Multimedia Lab at the Faculty of Engineering. Multimedia Lab later became one of the founding teams of the Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology (IBBT). Van de Walle's research interests include multimedia content delivery (including presentation and archiving), coding of multimedia data, metadata technology, content adaptation, interactive (mobile) multimedia applications, and e-health. He is author of more than 80 articles in international peer-reviewed journals and 250 articles in proceedings of international conferences. He has received awards for his work (a/o the ISO Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions, nominated by MPEG). Van de Walle is a member of the Board of Directors at Ghent University, and the IBBT Governing Board.
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