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1 MediaMosa Open Source Digital Asset Management Software Freedom Day 2012 Michel van de Ven MediaMosa PMC

2 Overview MediaMosa Features Architecture Community & Open Source Use Cases & Applications Current Development & Roadmap

3 MediaMosa 101 MediaMosa: built with Drupal MediaMosa: a Drupal Video Distribution MediaMosa: DAM: Digital Asset Management System MAM: Media Asset Management System MediaMosa is a back-end For video-websites = front-ends For document management systems Generic distributed database with metadata

Asset Management System MediaMosa is a back-end For video-websites =

4 MediaMosa Features & Services Storage and retrieval of any digital asset Described with standard metadata formats: Dublin Core, Qualified DC, IEEE/LOM, CZP Structured into assets, mediafiles, collections Authentication & Authorisation (ACLs) domains: e.g. mit.edu, group.drupal.org realms: e.g. ASelect, Entree, DigID, Federated: SURFconext, OpenID, Google, FB. users: e.g. groups of domains / realms / users

Authentication & Authorisation (ACLs) domains: e.g.

5 MediaMosa Features & Services Search using Common Query Language CQL, SRU/SRW Apache SOLR used for full-text searching Open Archives Initiative - Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) provider available, harvester in roadmap (NIBG)

html Apache SOLR used for full-text searching http://lucene.apache.

6 MediaMosa Features & Services Transcoding of almost any video/audio format using FFmpeg Use of predefined transcoding profiles. Support for literally hundreds of formats. Distributed Job Processing Architecture Uploads: POST, PUT, FTP Notification infrastructure Logging capabilities Statistics gathering and reporting

Support for literally hundreds of formats.

7 MediaMosa Features & Services Streaming solution is not part of MediaMosa This is by design: every institution has its own requirements for this, or even an existing solution. Out-of-the box HTTP progressive download is supported, so it just works DBUS challenge-response protocol used for authenticating front-ends Unit Tests across the board Full docs available on MediaMosa Construction Kit for Drupal

Out-of-the box HTTP progressive download is supported, so it just works DBUS challenge-response protocol

8 Architectural Principles Open Source Open Standards Open Protocols Drupal used as a Web Application Framework Drupal used to build front-ends But... any front-end technology is possible: Java, Lisp,.NET, Blackboard, Ruby on Rails, node.js, &c: as long as it can talk REST.

front-ends But... any front-end technology is possible: Java, Lisp,.

9 Architectural Principles Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Representational State Transfer (REST) both inside and outside UNIX Design Principles Worse is better Modifiable & Self Documenting: "Use the Source, Luke."

Principles http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch01s06.

10 Operational Runs on standard LAMP stack: Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. But also FreeBSD, OpenBSD, nginx, lighttpd, mariadb, varnish, memcached, mongodb, &c Apply existing knowledge in these fields for scaling up & out, and to achieve redundancy, high availability &c. In production at Surfnet, Kennisnet since 2008 Scales up from a laptop with a USB stick to big iron. Available on-premise and as a service.

knowledge in these fields for scaling up & out, and to achieve redundancy, high availability &c.

11 Open Source Released as Open Source in June 2009 GPLv2 license Bootstrapped using Cathedral model, migrate to Bazaar model over next years Community on source code (github), releases, fora, issue trackers, mailing lists, whitepapers, demos, research.

next years Community on http://mediamosa.

12 Open Source Project Management Committee (PMC) Current members are: Surfnet, Kennisnet, National Institute of Sound and Vision (NIBG), University of Amsterdam. PMC decides on roadmap, manages community, events & funding. MediaMosa Foundation in September 2012.

13 Users, builders & thinkers Surfnet: surfmedia.nl & research platform Uni Leuven, Twente: speech to text research Uni Amsterdam: central DAM, Blackboard support, building Basic LTI integration Uni Groningen: central DAM KU Leuven, Uni Gent. Dutch Institute of Sound and Vision: Ed*It platform, ed-it.nu Kennisnet: teleblik.nl, leraar24.nl, e-tv.nl, s-tv.nl Hippo CMS: integration SDK

Blackboard support, building Basic LTI integration Uni Groningen: central DAM KU Leuven, Uni

14 Users, builders & thinkers Cineca: linking 51 Italian universities with lecture recording system (Matteo Bertazzo) University of Berkely chose not to use MediaMosa for Opencast / Matterhorn Lecture Recording system (licensing issue), but still uses it as an architectural reference. Matterhorn integration implemented anyway Norwegian Universities: considering MediaMosa as central repository and DAM Starting with University of Oslo: live in March 2012, DAM services for 45k users + 5k staff.

still uses it as an architectural reference.

15 Users, Builders & Thinkers Together with Acquia (USA, Drupal) NBC Sports Central DAM Provides hub sites with content New project with major news agency: New metadata type support Integration with S3, Akamai CDN, encoding.com 300 million streams per month

project with major news agency: New metadata type support

16 The Archipel Project Archipel.be: A network-centric approach to digital preservation Multi-disciplinary research project, Belgian initiative including IBBT, University of Leuven, University of Gent, FARO, VTI, BAM, Descartes, Inuits, Krimson, KlasCement. MediaMosa selected as the central shared repository; alternatives included DSpace, Fedora Commons &c

2009-2011 Belgian initiative including IBBT, University of Leuven, University of Gent,

17 MediaMosa for Archives Continuation of the Archipel Project, provides strategy for MediaMosa as long-term solution Goal: provide deep support for relevant archival and curation standards BagIt hierarchical file packaging format designed to support disk-based storage and network transfer of arbitrary digital content Used by US Library of Congress, Gent University, Stanford Digital Repository.

packaging format designed to support disk-based storage and network transfer of arbitrary digital content

18 MediaMosa for Archives Support for PREMIS Data Dictionary Support for Metadata Encoding and Transmission standard (METS)

19 WCAG2 Compliancy Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Initiative of Royal Kentalis Foundation, for hearing impaired Bartimeus Foundation, for visually impaired Goal: make MediaMosa fully WCAG2 compliant Mandatory in.nl for.edu and.gov now Will be mandatory in.eu soon

Bartimeus Foundation, for visually impaired Goal: make MediaMosa fully

20 WCAG2 Features Standardised format for technical metadata Support for metadata on mediafile-level (in addition to metadata on asset-level) Caption and subtitle support (playback, editing) Generating captions, using sophisticated speech-to-text technology from the Leuven (.be, Spraak) and Twente (.nl) Universities Support for audio descriptions, and recording them live

(playback, editing) Generating captions, using sophisticated speech-to-text technology from

21 WCAG2 Features Support for video annotations (text, graphics) Support for sign language interpreter video, both as a separate track and as an overlay Generalisation of mediafile type support Support for free tagging on mediafile level Ready-to-use packaged MediaMosa distribution including all relevant tools and software

22 Nebula OpenSocial API Federated Identity and Group management (SURFconext) Special features for management of scale, storage and bandwidth Connect multiple instances for instant cloudification

23 MediaMosa vs YouTube No ads Authentication and Authorisation Control over media types: HD/SD, paid/free Guaranteed availability of media: no censorship Ability to store media at a specific geographical location, e.g. due to laws.

24 Q&A Michel van de Ven

MediaMosa A Drupal Distribution for Digital Asset Management

MediaMosa A Drupal Distribution for Digital Asset Management Michel van de Ven (uid 28913) MediaMosa Project Management Committee http://mediamosa.org MediaMosa 101 MediaMosa is built with Drupal (7)