Axmedis
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AXMEDIS is a research project partially supported by the European Commission under the Information Society Technologies (IST DG-INFSO) programme of the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6). It stands for "Automating Production of Cross Media Content for Multi-channel Distribution".
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[edit] In Brief
The AXMEDIS framework supports the whole content production 'food chain' for cross media content creation, aggregation, adaptation, protection and multichannel distribution, with a strong focus on automation.
[edit] Project aims
According to the official AXMEDIS project website the main aims of the project are to: - reduce the costs of cross media (Multi-media) production and distribution - search for and integrate objects and components through a query support system - manage and monitor distribution These objectives are being pursued by integrating research results, algorithms and tools.
[edit] AXMEDIS object
An axmedis object is an MPEG-21 multimedia object which can virtually contain any kind of multimedia resource, metadata and rights-related information supporting the MPEG-21 "Rights Expression Language" (REL).
[edit] Main Tools
The AXMEDIS framework consists of a set of different tools. Following is a (non exhaustive) overview of major tools.
[edit] AXMEDIS Editors
These tools enable the manual editing of objects.
[edit] AXMEDIS Players
These tools are needed to play axmedis objects. There are various flavours of the players for different devices for PC (standalone, browser plug-in, skinned), mobile, PDA, set top box.
[edit] Content Processing
These tools are used for the automatic creation, aggregation, processing and distribution of multimedia content with the AXMEDIS format. This is done via scripts written in enhanced Javascript. These tools include a Javascript Integrated development environment (IDE), a scheduler and a GRID environment.
[edit] AXEPTool
The AXEPTool is a BitTorrent based legal P2P client for sharing AXMEDIS content.
[edit] Consortium
The AXMEDIS project gathers many partners consisting of leading European digital content producers, integrators, archives, distributors and researchers.
[edit] Project partners
- Advance Concepts for Interactive Technology GERMANY
- Associazione dei Fonografici Italiani ITALY
- Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Fondazione ITALY
- British Broadcasting Corporation UNITED KINGDOM
- COMVERSE LTD ISRAEL
- Consorzio Pisa Ricerche ITALY
- Societa consortile a responsanilita limitata Centro di Ricerca, Sviluppo e Studi Superiori in Sardegna ITALY
- Dipartimento di Italianistica, Università degli Studi di Firenze ITALY
- Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica, Universita degli Studi di Firenze, DISIT Lab. (project leader) ITALY
- ELION Enterprises Ltd ESTONIA
- Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne SWITZERLAND
- Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
- EUTELSAT S.A. FRANCE
- EXITECH srl ITALY
- FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. GERMANY
- Foundacio Barcelona Media University Pompeo Fabra SPAIN
- GIUNTI INTERACTIVE LABS S.R.L. ITALY
- HEWLETT PACKARD ITALIANA S.R.L. ITALY
- Kaunas University of Technology LITHUANIA
- MBIGROUP ITALY
- OD2 UNITED KINGDOM
- Peking University CHINA
- Sociedad Digital de Autores y Editores SPAIN
- SEJER REPRESENTING BORDAS AND NATHAN FRANCE
- STRATEGICA (spin-off of Consorzio Pisa Ricerche, CPR) ITALY
- TEO LT, AB (formerly Lithuanian Telecom) LITHUANIA
- Telecom Italia ITALY
- TISCALI S.P.A. ITALY
- ICSRiM, University of Leeds UNITED KINGDOM
- Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya SPAIN
- The University of Reading UNITED KINGDOM
- Video Reklamos Studija LITHUANIA
- XIM LIMITED UNITED KINGDOM
[edit] Affiliated Partners and Subcontractors
- PSItrust/focuseek ITALY
- SOCIETA' ITALIANA DEGLI AUTORI ED EDITORI ITALY
- HEXAGLOBE FRANCE
- RIGEL ITALY
- GESFOR SPAIN
- PENTEX ITALY
- ALBENIZ Foundation SPAIN
- maat Gknowledge SPAIN
[edit] Conferences and Workshops
Since 2005 the AXMEDIS consortium has been organizing international conferences about cross-media and digital-media content production, processing, management, standards, representation, sharing, protection and rights management interoperability.
