A Platform for Constructing Distributed Asset Management Systems

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Journal Article
Content Type: Original Research
Abbreviated Title: SMPTE J
Volume: 110, No. 7, pp. 436–443
Abstract: Television's transition to digital requires management of a variety of distributed assets. A facility-wide management system must oversee these assets even if the creation and storage systems already include smaller-scale management tools. It is unreasonable to assume that software vendors will give up control of their own asset management in favor of a completely centralized system; therefore, the greatest chance of success is through tools that allow a variety of systems to collaborate. The objective of the Content Share Platform is to enable this collaboration. Neither a monolithic database nor an end-user asset management system, the platform is a set of active software components, called agents and brokers, that permit application software to include standardized data exchange interfaces. These present a layer of abstraction that allows multiple applications to share information about assets in a peer-to-peer environment without giving up control. This ultimately permits systems to grow as a facility grows and gives an organization the opportunity to expand with minimal architectural impact.
Publication Date: 2001-07-01
DOI: 10.5594/J11583
ISSN: Print: 0036-1682
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/J11583
Author(s): S. BilowGrass Valley Group Inc., Beaverton, OR 97006.
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Steve Bilow pursued his graduate studies in computer science at Portland State University with research interests in computer graphics, object-oriented methodology, and software metrics. During his 14-year tenure with the Grass Valley Group, he has served in a variety of capacities in marketing, applications engineering, and software engineering. His areas of expertise include newsroom computer systems, asset management systems and architectures, video networking products, and sports production tools. — Bilow has held positions on the executive committees for the ACM OOPSLA conferences, the Los Angeles chapter of the Audio Engineering Society, and the Computer-Human Interaction Forum of Oregon. He was book review editor for the Journal of Object-oriented Programming and is the author of more than 60 publications. He is currently marketing manager for the ContentShare Platform, WebAble, and other Media Software Products at the Grass Valley Group Inc. — Bilow is a member of SMPTE and the Association of Computing Machinery.
S. LibertGrass Valley Group Inc., Beaverton, OR 97006.
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Scott Libert received his BFA from the University of Hawaii in 1987 with studies in electronic music and computer programming. Libert has worked 12 years in the telecommunications, multimedia, and video industries, designing and implementing distributed systems applications with a focus on object-oriented design. He has authored several articles on distributed software architecture and has a U.S. patent pending for the ContentShare Platform of which he is chief architect at the Grass Valley Group.
A. MurchingGrass Valley Group Inc., Beaverton, OR 97006.
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Anil ML Murching received a B.Tech. degree in electronics and communication engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, in 1991; M.S. degrees in electrical engineering and mathematics; and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY, in 1992, 1995, and 1997, respectively. He is currently with the Grass Valley Group. — Murching's research interests include content-based image and video indexing, parsing, searching and browsing, video compression, and video segmentation. He is the author of seven journal and conference papers, and has twelve U.S. patents pending in image and video segmentation. Murching is a member of the IEEE and Sigma Xi.
D. SlackGrass Valley Group Inc., Beaverton, OR 97006.
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Dave Slack is currently software engineering manager at Grass Valley Group and manages the Content-Share development team. He has worked within Grass Valley Group Profile product development for the past five years. Previously he was chief engineer at NESN. — Slack holds a BSEE from Boston University.
Copyright: © 2001 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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