The partners of the European project IMP (Intelligent Processing and Metadata-driven distribution of audiovisual media), coordinated by Barcelona Media, have held the second technical meeting on 2nd and 3rd September, at the the University of Galway, Ireland.

The project, which began in January and lasts 30 months, is formed up by the following members: Europese FilmLight Ltd and DTS Ltd (UK), National University of Ireland, Galway (DERI – Digital Enterprise Research Institute) ( Ireland); Apuntolapospo, and Barcelona Media (Spain).

IMP seeks the creation of architecture, workflow and processing applications and metadata-based distribution of digital cinema and entertainment. The aim is the creation of a Virtual Factory Films, in which various professionals in distributed geographical environments, can work together to create and customize programs from digital storage to petabytes scale using semantic technologies to organize data and processes.