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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What is content? | |
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| Content and intellectual property rights | |
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| CMS versus DAM-S and MAM-S | |
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| Application domains | |
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| Content management in television, radio, and media production | |
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| Content management in 'non-media' organizations | |
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| Content management in advanced media services | |
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| Content management: the problem illustrated | |
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| Media and essence handling requirements | |
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| Requirements for metadata creation and handling | |
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| User requirements example: television production applications | |
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| Integration into production | |
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| Essence management | |
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| Browsing | |
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| Information management | |
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| User interface requirements | |
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| Operational requirements | |
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| System requirements | |
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| Architectural system requirements | |
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| Requirements summary | |
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| Content-related workflows | |
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| Who is dealing with content? | |
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| Content access in production | |
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| Content access in documentation and cataloging | |
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| Search and retrieval of content | |
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| Content-related administrative and management tasks | |
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| The role of a content manager | |
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| Workflows in broadcast | |
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| Sequential versus content-centric workflow model | |
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| Basic broadcast workflows | |
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| Ingest and logging workflow | |
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| Search, query, and production workflow | |
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| Impact of content management on broadcast workflows | |
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| Workflows in e-commerce systems | |
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| Workflow in the CMS back-end | |
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| Ingest, documentation, and content management | |
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| Fulfillment and delivery | |
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| Workflow in the e-commerce front-end | |
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| Selection and presentation of content | |
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| The sales process | |
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| Content-related workflows in corporate and other organizations | |
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| Content management in training and e-learning | |
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| Content-related workflows in marketing and sales | |
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| Content creation for marketing and sales | |
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| Content distribution | |
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| Essence | |
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| The different forms of essence | |
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| Basic essence elements | |
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| Structured essence formats | |
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| High-resolution and browse formats | |
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| Basic BIF requirements | |
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| Encoding and compression basics | |
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| Encoding: from the analog to the digital domain | |
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| Compression: reducing the bit rate | |
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| Video | |
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| Video encoding: basics and principles | |
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| MPEG-based formats | |
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| MPEG-1 | |
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| MPEG-2 | |
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| MPEG-4 | |
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| DV-based formats | |
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| DV format: encoding basics | |
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| DV professional compression according to SMPTE | |
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| Video formats in the context of CMS | |
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| Audio | |
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| Audio encoding: basics and principles | |
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| MPEG-based audio formats | |
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| MPEG-1 audio | |
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| MPEG-2 audio | |
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| MPEG-4 audio | |
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| Audio formats in the context of CMS | |
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| Images, Web, text, and other essence formats | |
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| Images | |
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| JPEG | |
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| GIF | |
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| TIFF | |
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| BMP | |
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| Structured documents | |
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| SGML | |
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| Web pages and HTML | |
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| Essence processing | |
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| Essence processing applications and services | |
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| Essence processing: basic principles and methods | |
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| Essence processing tools in content management systems | |
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| Content representation and metadata | |
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| The representation of content | |
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| Metadata: the description of content | |
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| Object-related metadata | |
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| Workflows and content description | |
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| Rights-related metadata | |
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| Data models and metadata | |
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| Segment-related metadata | |
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| Logical content structure and content hierarchies | |
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| Object references | |
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| Metadata access and exchange | |
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| Search and query for metadata | |
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| Metadata exchange | |
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| Metadata description schemes | |
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| SMEF and P/Meta | |
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| SMEF basics | |
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| The SMEF entity structure | |
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| The SMEF data model | |
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| MPEG-7 | |
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| MPEG-7 systems | |
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| MPEG-7 data description language (DDL) | |
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| MPEG-7 visual and audio parts | |
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| MPEG-7 multimedia description schemes (MDS) tools | |
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| MPEG-7 reference tools and relationships | |
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| SMPTE Metadata Dictionary | |
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| The Metadata Dictionary structure | |
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| Metadata Dictionary element structure | |
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| SMPTE unique material identifier | |
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| Dublin core | |
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| Standards for metadata transmission and exchange | |
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| The key-length-value (KLV) protocol | |
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| Key-length-value structure | |
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| KLV data coding | |
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| Extensible markup language (XML) | |
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| Document type definitions (DTD) | |
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| W3C XML schema | |
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| XML processing | |
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| XML and metadata | |
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| The media object server protocol | |
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| The simple object access protocol (SOAP) | |
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| File formats | |
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| Media eXchange format (MXF) | |
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| The MXF file structure | |
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| Metadata in MXF | |
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| Structural metadata | |
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| Descriptive metadata | |
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| Operational patterns | |
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| Advanced authoring format (AAF) | |
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| AAF file structure | |
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| Essence in AAF | |
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| AAF class model and class hierarchy | |
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| BWF and other multimedia file formats | |
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| The broadcast wave format | |
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| Content management system architecture | |
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| Software design principles | |
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| Scalability by distribution | |
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| Service groups | |
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| Broker-manager-server concept | |
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| Software architecture | |
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| Essence management | |
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| Data management | |
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| CMS component software architecture | |
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| The core | |
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| Essence management | |
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| Archive management servers | |
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| Archive transfer manager | |
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| Archive transfer servers | |
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| Cache servers | |
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| Streaming managers | |
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| Streaming servers | |
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| Transfer managers | |
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| Transfer servers | |
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| Device management | |
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| Device managers | |
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| Device servers | |
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| Data management | |
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| Information systems | |
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| Data managers | |
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| Data manager resolver | |
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| Data brokers | |
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| Services | |
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| Ingest | |
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| Playout | |
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| Import | |
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| Export | |
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| Editing | |
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| Conversion | |
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| Analysis | |
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| Video analysis service | |
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| Audio analysis service | |
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| Other analysis services | |
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| Watermarking | |
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| Order management | |
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| Watch folder | |
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| Web retrieval | |
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| Workspace management | |
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| Applications | |
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| Supporting services | |
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| Job management | |
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| Workflow management | |
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| Task management | |
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| Transaction control | |
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| System management | |
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| Naming | |
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| Event logging | |
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| Process monitoring | |
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| Resource management | |
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| System administration | |
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| User management service | |
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| Accounting and licencing | |
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| Messaging | |
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| Configuration | |
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| Remote installation | |
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| Content management system infrastructure | |
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| Infrastructure: basic principles | |
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| Infrastructure components and sub-components | |
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| Increasing system reliability via hardware redundancy | |
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| Hardware design and configuration principles | |
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| Deciding on server configurations | |
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| Deciding on redundancy | |
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| Deciding on storage | |
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| Designing the networks | |
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| Isolating interfaces | |
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| Storage systems | |
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| Server-attached storage (SAS) | |
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| Network attached storage (NAS) | |
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| Storage area networks (SAN) | |
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| SAN management | |
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| SAN-based backup | |
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| SAN requirements in content production | |
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| Mass storage solutions | |
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| Videotape-based systems | |
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| IT-based mass storage systems | |
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| Storage devices for long-term storage | |
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| Videotape recorders | |
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| Optical disk drives | |
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| Data tape drives | |
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| Hard-disk-based online storage | |
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| Combining technology | |
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| Supporting workflows by a baseline system infrastructure | |
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| Generic system layout | |
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| Contribution and ingest | |
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| Ingest control and recording | |
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| Transport of production quality essence | |
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| Access to browse copies and keyframes | |
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| Real-time analysis and annotation | |
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| Archive | |
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| Query and retrieval | |
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| Interface to production and playout | |
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| Cataloging and archiving | |
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| Administration | |
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| Operational consideration | |
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| Migration | |
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| Using automatic tape libraries | |
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| Monitoring carrier integrity | |
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| Carrier replacement and decommissioning policies | |
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| Costs | |
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| Initial cost | |
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| Internal cost | |
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| Cost of operation | |
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| Case study: near-online systems | |
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| Case study: online systems | |
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| Case Study: browse server | |
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| System and data integration in CMS | |
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| Integration principles | |
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| Types of integration | |
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| Integration via data exchange | |
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| Integration via application programming interfaces | |
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| Integration of application components | |
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| Integration process | |
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| Requirements study and component analysis | |
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| System and interface design | |
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| Implementation, testing, and installation | |
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| CMS and legacy systems | |
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| Introducing CMS in existing infrastructures | |
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| Migration of legacy essence | |
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| Integration of existing databases and information | |
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| Migration of legacy databases and information systems | |
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| Integration of legacy databases and information systems | |
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| Integration of third-party systems | |
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| Integration with enterprise-wide third-party systems | |
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| Integration with enterprise resource planning systems | |
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| Integration with rights management systems | |
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| Integration of function-specific third-party systems | |
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| CMS and automation system/media management system | |
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| CMS and nonlinear editing systems | |
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| Integration with newsroom systems | |
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| CMS and Web integration | |
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| Applications | |
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| Application design principles | |
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| Application and user requirements | |
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| Access rights and user roles | |
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| Component-based application design | |
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| CMS applications and componentware | |
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| Reusable application modules | |
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| Player | |
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| Clip list | |
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| Time-line | |
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| Device control panels | |
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| Metadata editor | |
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| Query interfaces | |
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| Thesaurus pickers | |
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| Hit lists | |
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| Application views including keyframes | |
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| Input application control | |
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| Import | |
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| Ingest | |
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| Documentation applications | |
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| Logging | |
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| Cataloging | |
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| Retrieval applications | |
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| Search and presentation | |
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| Search and querying | |
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| Presentation of search results | |
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| Detailed content object representation | |
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| Advanced retrieval client features | |
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| Browse and rough-cut | |
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| Rough-cut | |
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| Collection and ordering | |
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| Export | |
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| System administration | |
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| Other application components | |
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| Media production preparation | |
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| Planning and drafting | |
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| Commissioning | |
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| Rights clearance | |
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| Future trends | |
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| MPEG-21: multimedia framework | |
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| Relevant broadcast initiatives | |
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| EBU project future television archives | |
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| IETF initiative for content distribution networks (CDN) and content distribution internetworking (CDI) | |
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| Experiences and outlook | |
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| CMS-related issues | |
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| Automatic media analysis and processing tools | |
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| CMS as generic, open platform | |
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| Workflow considerations | |
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| Future developments | |
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| Developments in automatic content processing | |
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| Information and metadata management | |
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| Future infrastructures | |
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| IPR management and protection | |
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| References | |
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| Acronyms | |
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| Index | |