Axmedis

AXMEDIS is a research project partially supported by the European Community 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"

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.

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.

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).

Main Tools

The AXMEDIS framework consists of a set of different tools. Following is a (non exhaustive) overview of major tools.

AXMEDIS Editors

These tools enable the manual editing of objects.

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.

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.

AXEPTool

The AXEPTool is a BitTorrent based legal P2P client for sharing AXMEDIS content.

Consortium

The AXMEDIS project gathers many partners consisting of leading European digital content producers, integrators, archives, distributors and researchers.

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

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.

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