Fwd: Invitation MediaMixer European project community

Maybe of interest to some of our industry members....

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Roberto Garcia (Universitat de Lleida)" <rgarcia@DIEI.UDL.CAT>
> Subject: Invitation MediaMixer European project community
> Date: 16 April 2013 19:32:32 AEST
> To: VIRTUALGOODS@LISTSERV.DFN.DE
> Reply-To: "Roberto Garcia (Universitat de Lleida)" <rgarcia@DIEI.UDL.CAT>
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I would like to make you aware of the MediaMixer European project, which tries to build a 
> community and promote the use of semantic technologies for media management, including 
> copyright management. We would like to invite you to join this community. Please, see below the 
> official invitation letter and here a link to the PDF version:
> 
> http://mediamixer.eu/wiki/images/7/79/MediaMixer_industry_briefing_-_print.pdf
> 
> We would be really happy to have you in this community. It doesn't require any commitment from 
> your part, though we would appreciate any contribution given your expertise. You can also forward 
> this invitation to anyone you think that might be interested. And don't hesitate to contact me for 
> any clarification or comment.
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Roberto García
> Associate Professor
> Universitat de Lleida, Spain
> http://rhizomik.net/~roberto/
> 
> ---
> 
> MediaMixer is a European funded support action whose community will network industry and 
> research players such that the media industry will be enabled to directly benefit from semantic 
> multimedia functionalities.
> 
> Through a mix of online portal and collaborative events there will be a two way communication 
> process between research and industry to overcome the prior barriers to uptake and address a lack 
> of awareness of the potential of the technology among the industry, through the actions:
> 
> * Collect and analyse the requirements of the industry for media asset handling, storage, retrieval 
> and provision to customers from both the media owner and consumer perspective;
> 
> * Produce and highlight materials – documents, presentations and videos – which communicate 
> clearly the benefits of semantic media technology for the media owner and consumer, aligned with 
> their requirements and use cases;
> 
> * Creation of appropriate APIs, software, tools and services around semantic multimedia analysis, 
> annotation, storage, retrieval, processing, provision and rights respecting purchase and re-use;
> Provision of software and service documentation and training material addressing industry existing 
> knowledge and processes, to ensure no barriers to technology uptake;
> 
> * Online demonstrators of small scale prototypes with the industry partners of MediaMixer to 
> concretely highlight technology benefits and steps to application in media news reporting, e-
> learning delivery and media asset production;
> 
> * One-to-one and group meetings between research and industry partners for information days, 
> technology presentation, demos, training and feedback cycles;
> 
> 
> A MediaMixer online portal collecting all of these materials, communicating with the community, 
> gathering feedback and discussion and sustained at the end of the project.
> 
> To have full access to all of the above actions, join now at http://community.mediamixer.eu. It's 
> free, easy and without commitment. To keep up to date on all MediaMixer events, new online 
> content and opportunities to network in our community, join now! We look forward to having you 
> on board.

Cheers...
Renato Iannella
Semantic Identity
http://semanticidentity.com
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