Previous Projects
Metamedia - description schemes combining context and content for multimedia archives;
Metadata
for the Preservation and Retrieval of
Multimedia Components
Archivum - modelling and implementing a description system according to archival standards;
Vidion - operational video archive for a broadcast station;
Geira - gather information from several sources and make it available in the Internet, using markup
languages for interchange.
Goals
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To further investigate the combination of contextual and contents metadata
To extend the concept of multimedia object to software components
To produce a model for multimedia archival description and tools to support an environment for it
To develop a “software framework” for multimedia archives including a database model, a user interface and
tools for metadata production and validation
MPEG-7 Description
Scheme:
multimedia objects
audiovisual production
Scheme
RelatedUnit
-name :
-schemeNumber :
-description :
-explanation :
TimePeriod
-startTime :
-endTime :
1..1
0..n
0..n
DescriptionLevel
-levelNumber :
-description :
Extension of
Description Scheme
Description Definition Language
to handle software components
upper_level 0..n
0..n
has_level
1..1
DescriptionUnit
Segment
-referenceCode :
-title :
-totalTimeDuration :1..n
0..n
-category :
-targetAudience :
-supplier :
-keywords :
-description :
-thesaurusTerm :
-(...) :
contains 0..n
Tools for a development
environment
based on the Description Definition
Language
Researchers
0..n
0..n
0..n -description : 0..n
0..1 part_of
Comparative study of user
behaviour
Software Pattern
for Multimedia Archives
Gabriel David
Cristina Ribeiro
Luis Corte-Real
José Torres
Ademar Aguiar
Pedro Henriques
José Carlos Ramalho
Wendy Duff
Francisco Barbedo
Grant 1
Grant 2
Budget
Work Plan
WP1 – Project Management
WP2 – Description Scheme for Audiovisual Production
WP3 – Description Definition Language
WP4 – Extension of the Description Scheme for Software Components
WP4 – User Study
Overall funding requested to FCT
DESCRIPTION
1st YEAR
Human resources
4600
Acquisition of services
400
Missions
2200
Consultants
500
Overheads
2400
Other current expenses
300
TOTAL current expenses
10400
Equipment
1600
TOTAL
12000
(unit: contos)
2nd YEAR
TOTAL
4600
9200
400
800
2200
4400
500
1000
2000
4400
300
600
10000
20400
1600
10000
22000
Consortium
Prime Contractor
Project Partner
UNIVERSITY OF MINHO
Consultant Partners
Porto Historic Archives
(Dr. Francisco Barbedo)
University of Toronto
(Professor Wendy Duff)