The ASSET Architecture—Integrating Media Applications and Products through a Unified API

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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: 113, No. 9, pp. 307–312
Abstract: Applications and products currently available for the broadcasting market are vertically integrated or proprietary. They are based on components requiring specific and costly development to interoperate and typically rely on a single manufacturer or system integrator. Hence, they are not fully compliant with broadcasters' requirements. Architectural Solutions for Services Enhancing digital Television (ASSET) is a European-funded project. Its main goal is to overcome the limitations of custom-specific implementations in a digital system for TV content creation. These limitations are generally due to the misfit of interfaces between software layers, proprietary application program interfaces (APIs) of equipment from different vendors, and the lack of a generalized middleware for multimedia content management with openly defined interfaces. Besides presenting the ASSET-proposed architecture and concepts, this paper describes the prototype under development to test and demonstrate the project proposals.
Publication Date: 2004-09-01
DOI: 10.5594/J11551
ISSN: Print: 1545-0279 | Electronic: 2160-2492
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/J11551
Author(s): M. CordeiroUniversity of Porto, Portugal
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Mærio Cordeiro graduated with a degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Porto, Portugal, in 2000. He was a researcher at INESC Porto from September 2000 to April 2003, where he worked On several projects in the area of distributed systems, graphical user interfaces, and MXF. In May 2003, Cordeiro joined MOG Solutions, where he is currently developing middleware services and graphical user interfaces.
P. VianaUniversity of Porto, Portugal
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Paula Viana ( pviana@inescporto.pt ) received B.S. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Porto, Portugal, in 1989 and 1994, respectively. She is an adjunct professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto, where she teaches courses in telecommunications. She is also a senior researcher in the telecommunications and multimedia unit at INESC Porto. Viana's main research activities and interests are in the area of networked audiovisual systems.
J. RuelaUniversity of Porto, Portugal
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José Ruela ( jruela@inescporto.pt ) received a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Porto, Portugal, in 1971, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Sussex, U.K., in 1982. He is an associate professor at the University of Porto, where he teaches courses in data communications and computer networks. He is manager of the telecommunications and multimedia unit at INESC Porto, an R&D institute affiliated with the University of Porto. His main research interests are in resource management, quality of service, and performance evaluation in high-speed networks.
M. BodyUniversity of Porto, Portugal
B. CousinUniversity of Porto, Portugal
D. BommartUniversity of Porto, Portugal
G. FerrariUniversity of Porto, Portugal
W. BernetUniversity of Porto, Portugal
M. StrambiniUniversity of Porto, Portugal
E. MüllerUniversity of Porto, Portugal
M. LaurentinUniversity of Porto, Portugal
B. AlgayresUniversity of Porto, Portugal
S. DaulardUniversity of Porto, Portugal
I. HöntschUniversity of Porto, Portugal
T. MarxUniversity of Porto, Portugal
Copyright: © 2004 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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1. IST-2001-37379— Architectural Solutions for Services Enhancing digital Television , http://mog.inescporto.pt/ist-asset . EXTERNAL
2. Viana Paula , “A Unified Solution for the Integration of Media Applications and Products in Broadcaster Environments—The ASSET Architecture,” Proc. of the NAB Conference 2003 , pp. 172 – 176 , April 2003 . EXTERNAL
3. Proposed SMPTE Standard, 377M-2003, “Material Exchange Format (MXF) File Format Specification,” www.smpte.org . EXTERNAL
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5. SMPTE 330M-2000, “Unique Material Identifier (UMID),” www.smpte.org . EXTERNAL

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