Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Project overview
- 3. Related work
- 4. Audiovisual content ingestion and modeling: METS ingestion negotiation for FC audiovisual content model
- 5. MediaMosa platform as a transcoding and delivery service
- 6. Fedora Commons and Mediamosa integration
- 7. Conclusions
- 8. References
The article describes the integrated adoption of Fedora Commons repository, usually adopted in a preservation context, and MediaMosa DAM, usually adopted for multimedia services, for managing a digital repository. During the Sapienza Digital Library project (University of Rome and CINECA InterUniversity Consortium) the functionalities of the two applications were exploited to build a weaving factory for the creation of digital resources that are customizable to different digital environments, and reusable in diverse application contexts. The ideas behind this new framework for a future scenario of application, namely to reduce the costs of preservation and optimize the dissemination services, have been evaluated during the project. The application was conceived to manage the integration of a large volume of multiformat material, and to enable their access through different devices, in order to fulfill the needs and the expectations of diverse communities, local, global, and future. The integration was unleashed by means of both repository-to-repository interaction, and mapping of video Content Model’s disseminators (getThumbnail, getStreaming, getEmbedding, getDownload) to MediaMosa’s Restful services. The developers expect this integration will lead to a more flexible management of the dissemination services, as well as to economize the overproduction of different dissemination formats. On-demand transcoding services will be available to deliver content on different devices, in more flexible and interoperable manner. The article appeared in the Journal of Digital Information, Vol.13, No. 1 (2012).
Clear paper explaining briefly how the integration of Fedora Commons and MediaMosa allows to reuse the existing contextual elements of the established digital library system, like knowledge, framework and services. Interesting for developers in an AV archive to read why the authors see a valid trade off between the two systems, in spite of the existing functions’ overlap.