1. Open Source Asset Management
Manage your digital (media) assets across
applications with MediaMosa
@ChrisFlink
@ChrisFlink

2. Topics of this talk
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Trends and Challenges
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Requirements
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A Solution: MediaMosa
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Use Cases
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Get involved / Get started
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Questions
@ChrisFlink

3. Who am I?
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Consultant @ Inuits Nederland
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Antwerpen, Rotterdam, Kiev
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Open Source believers
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Dev + Ops = DevOps
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MediaMosa core developers
@ChrisFlink
http://linkedin.com/in/chrisflink
www.chrisflink.nl
@ChrisFlink

4. Trends and Challenges (1)
Source: KPCB Internet Trends 2013 by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Venture Capital at KPCB on May 29, 2013
http://www.slideshare.net/kleinerperkins/kpcb-internet-trends-2013
@ChrisFlink

5. Trends and Challenges (2)
Source: KPCB Internet Trends 2013 by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Venture Capital at KPCB on May 29, 2013
http://www.slideshare.net/kleinerperkins/kpcb-internet-trends-2013
@ChrisFlink

6. Trends and Challenges (3)
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7. Requirements
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Flexible
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Open
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In “The Cloud”
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Service Oriented
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Well described data
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Linked Open Data
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…
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8. Introducing MediaMosa
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Digital Asset Management System
Store → Prepare → Retrieve → Share
Any Digital Asset
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9. Store
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Store Any Digital Asset
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Describe asset using Metadata Standards
existing standards or custom sets
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Access Control to Protect Private Assets
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Upload, Ingest, Harvest, SFTP, ...
@ChrisFlink

10. Prepare
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Transcode video / audio
Mobile compatible, high/low quality, ...
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Analyse files
Create Still, Speech2text, OCR, ...
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Index files and metadata
Full-text, read technical metadata (id3, exif, ...)
@ChrisFlink

11. Retrieve
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Contextual Query Language
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A formal language for representing queries to
information retrieval systems.
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dc.title any fish
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dc.title any fish or dc.creator any sanderson
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dc.title any fish sortBy dc.date/sort.ascending
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Search/Retrieve via URL (SRU/SRW)
http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/specs/cql.html
Apache SOLR for indexing and searching
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12. Share / Play
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Authenticate Play Requests
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Serve Complete Player or Files
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Stream over HTTP progressive download
Or add a streaming server to your setup
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Combine Multiple files per assets for advanced
functionality
OAI-PMH provisioning
@ChrisFlink

13. MediaMosa Principles
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Open Source (GPLv2)
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Open Standards / Open Protocols
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Built on Drupal 7
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Unix Design Principles
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Modifiable & Self Documenting
"Use the Source, Luke."
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MediaMosa is a Back-end
Provides a rich REST API and admin interface
@ChrisFlink

14. Hosting MediaMosa
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Runs on LAMP
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Requires FFMPEG & LUA
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Use LAMP best practices for scaling, high-availability and
monitoring
Scales from laptop with USB stick to anything
Or use MediaMosa-as-a-Service:
MediaSalsa http://www.mediasalsa.eu
@ChrisFlink

15. What about the front-end?
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Any (mobile) application that can speak REST
Multiple front-ends can connect to the same backend
Drupal Modules and Distribution available
But any front-end technology is possible
Java, .NET, Blackboard, Ruby on Rails, node.js,
Lisp, Android, etc.
@ChrisFlink

16. Some use cases
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Video websites
Specific topics, freemium model,
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MOOCs & e-Learning
Build your own or integrate with existing tools
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Centralized media repository
Create once, publish everywhere
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Archivation
Well described data on flexible storage mountpoints
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...
@ChrisFlink

17. Get involved / Getting Started
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MediaMosa Foundation and Member Board
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Join Google+ Community
https://plus.google.com/communities/108771938512877203754
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To experiment with the MediaMosa API, contact me
for a free testing accounts on our MediaSalsa
platform
@ChrisFlink

18. URLs
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http://www.mediamosa.org
Project homepage
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http://foundation.mediamosa.org
MediaMosa Foundation Homepage
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https://github.com/mediamosa
Canonical source code repository
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http://mediamosa.org/api
Online version of the RESTful API reference guide
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http://mediamosa.org/trac
MediaMosa ticket system and quick guides
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http://www.mediasalsa.eu
MediaMosa-as-a-Service
@ChrisFlink

19. Questions?
@ChrisFlink

20. Thank you
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Slides will be available @
http://www.slideshare.net/flinkie/
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first to know :-)
We're hiring!
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