The paper “Understanding Linked Open Data as a Web-Scale Database” has been accepted for publication at the Second International Conference on Advances in Databases, Knowledge, and Data Applications. Co-author Dr. Michael Hausenblas, NUIG, notes that this is an important contribution to the work carried out in WP3 and WP5.

The complete digitalization of audiovisual media is converging towards a scenario of an entire virtual workflow from film production to exhibition.
This document proposes important points of communication among the various technical processes involved in a complete virtual audiovisual production, and describes the requirements for articulating metadata between the various states of media in a Virtual [...]

FilmLight team to receive Scientific and Technical Awards at 82nd Annual Academy Awards.
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The conform process is an essential part of post production, and provides both an excellent test case for a metadatabase driven workflow and a basis for the development of the concept of the virtual film factory. A new conform prototype within the existing Baselight application was developed to explore the benefits and optimal architecture for [...]

The prototype version of a metadatabase driven browser/viewer is described, including its architecture within a distributed image server environment. Taking advantage of instant access to content metadata, the high i/o and processing bandwidth of the image  and the wide scope for parallelism, it is possible to use the visual representation of lists of shots in [...]

The metadatabase – a metadata centric alternative access method to the audiovisual content stored on a general-purpose filesystem – provides a powerful basis for managing and searching large volumes of distributed files typically found in a post-production environment. The architecture of the metadatabase allows a reliable and robust representation of  the underlying filesystem in real [...]

The W3C Media Fragments Working Group has published the first public working draft of the Media Fragments URI 1.0 syntax and semantics. Dr. Michael Hausenblas from iMP member NUIG has contributed to the draft, which feeds into the overall iMP metadata architecture.