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SIP-NHD-Strategiske instituttprogram finansiert av NHD

Making Rich Media Accessible for Generations

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

The main theme of MARIAGE is the ability to publish and access rich media material over a long period of time. The right-most column illustrates that we want to improve commercial services of different types at different level. Three problem areas that need to be solved for making rich media accessible for generations are: 1.Migration: i.e. how to move from one technology to the next whit a minimal loss of information 2. Human computer interaction and universal design 3. Handling intellectual property rights The glue for joining these tree aspects in MARIAGE is the Metadata / Ontology layer. This layer will provide the framework, the metadata and the ontologies needed to improve the state of the art in these three areas and thereby opening for better business models. The layer will consist of upper ontologies, domain specific ontologies and terminal and network ontologies. The solutions and demonstrators we will produce as a result of the studies will be in the areas Transcoding, Adaptation, Storage systems and Rights management. The use of the terms transcoding and adaptation is often used as synonyms. We will refer to transcoding as part of a migration strategy while adaptation is a more day-to-day re-coding or reshaping of digital items from one f ormat to another. Software tools and demonstrators will be developed, among them a new version of NR's Motion JPEG 2000 encoder and decoder, practical tools for assigning rights to digital assets, HCI prototypes and a prototype of a multi media storage system (s/w).

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SIP-NHD-Strategiske instituttprogram finansiert av NHD