The AXCP Content Processing Media Grid is an open solution to set up architectures of media computing and semantic grid, for massive information management following business rules, growth and integration demands, big data management. AXCP supports a large range of possible applications for massive and parallel processing integrated with databases, back offices, workflows, data crawling, collectors, Content and Data Management Systems, CMS/DMS, and web servers. AXCP reduces costs and increase efficiency by an automated information, media and content management. AXCP is most complete media grid AXCP is a solution to set up scalable grid computing, at low costs, reliable and simple to install; to be used in conjunction with other applications, enforcing scalability, intelligence processing capabilities, batch processing, cloud computing, etc. (read IEEE Multimedia in April 2012, http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/ComputingNow/homepage/2012/0812/W_MU_MicroGrids.pdf ).

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The AXCP Content Processing Media Grid is an open solu
P g G ution to se upet
Technic Note
cal architecture of mediia computing and semantic grid for mas
es d, ssive inform mation
August 2012
t manageme following business rules, grow and inte
ent g wth egration demands, big datag
manageme ent. AXCP s supports a large range of possib applicati
e ble ions for ma assive
Automa your
ate and paralle processin integrate with databases, ba
el ng ed ack offices, workflows, data
,
busines proces
ss sses crawling, co ollectors, Co ontent and Data Mana agement Sys stems, CMS S/DMS, and webd
servers. AX XCP reduce costs and increase efficiency by an automa
es d e y ated information,
Intellige inform
ent mation media and content ma anagement AXCP is most comp
t. plete media grid AXCP is a
a P
manage ement at l
low solution to set up sca alable grid computing, at low co osts, reliable and simp to ple
cost install; to be used in conjunctio with oth applica
b n on her ations, enfo orcing scala ability,
intelligence processing capabilitie batch pro
e g es, ocessing, c cloud compu uting, etc.
Scalable and intellige
ent (read IEEE Multimedia in April 20
a 012,
information processing. http://www.com
mputer.org/cms/C
Computer.org/C
ComputingNow/h
homepage/2012 _MicroGrids.pdf ).
2/0812/W_MU_
omputing, ind
Cloud co dustrial
scalable massive pa
arallel
processin platform.
ng
On-dema computi and
and ing
processin
ng.
Applicat tions:
- data pro ocessing
- semant computing
tic
- knowled manage
dge ement
and rea asoning
- media grid
g
- big data processing
a g
- crawling process.
g
- data rec conciliation
- distributed process sing
- automa ated content
manage ement
- automa ated content
adaptat tion
- parallel content AXCP allow setting up scalable parallel and massive architectu
A ws e a e ures to schedule
repurpo osing multiple applications o multiples node client to automa and org
on ts ate ganize:
- parallel simulation o data ma assive and c computational intensiv parallel p
ve processing;
- comput tational intennsive o intellige informat ion manage
ent ement with semantic pr rocessing;
applications o services for conten production and/or dis
s nt stribution on demands;
n
- channe production and
el n o events collection, d data manag gement, sen nsors, intern of things RFIDs, ..;
net s,
distribution: broadc casting, o medical application for data collection and process
ns c sing;
IP/Interrnet, WEB sites, o biomedical applica ation in DNA and epidemiological a
A analysis and prediction
n;
P2P, mobile, PDA, IPTV,
m o social network bac office ma
n ck anagement, content pr
, rocessing, user and co
u ontent
interact tive TV and profile processing, recommen
p ndations;
channe VOD, etc
els, c. o user ge enerated conntent processing, adap ptation and formatting;
- monitor ring and con ntrol of: o monitor ring events and status of: WEB/internet sites P2P netw
s, works, datab
bases,
web, P2 OAI-PM
2P, MH, ftp sites …;
s,
social networks,
n o content managem ment for pro oduction an distribut
nd tion channe els: VOD, IPTV,
- similarit profile
ty WEBTV DVB-T, w
V, web, P2P, FTP, HTTP, OAI-PMH, WebServic
F ces, etc.;
comput ting, manage ement o interope erable trust and securit rule processing, CAS and/or DR (digital rights
ty S RM
- recomm mendations a and manage ement) MPE EG-21 and OMA;
advertis sing o process sing busines models, single and multiple dis
ss stribution ch
hannels: pa per
ay
- digital rights manag
r gement play, suubscription, counting, re
enting, billin etc., for B2B and B2C;
ng,
and liceensing
o content manageme system: DMS, CMS and/or ar
ent : S, rchives;
o data fingerprint and watermar extraction and insert
d rk n tion;
o Import and export d
a data with Europeana;
o Connec ctions with S
Social Netwworks: linked din., facebo
ook, etc.
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AXC Archi
CP itecture
The AXCP too of the p
ols previous fig
gure represe a gene
ent eral purpose solution t set up massive pa
e to m arallel
architectures for computing for person
g nal/industria use. Both big data and comput
al h a tational inte
ensive prob
blems
can be manage in easily manner. The followin figure re
ed y T ng eports an AXCP Sched
A duler that put in exec
p cution
proce
esses on A AXCP Nod des which can be ind dustrial or desktop coomputers c connected with the A AXCP
Scheeduler via one or more networks.
The AXCP solu ution is grouunded on th concept of Rule. AXCP Rules formalize activities of processin on
he t A s o ng
grid nodes and may activa other Rules on ot
ate R ther nodes in the cloud computin architect
ng ture on phyysical
mach hines. AXC Rules a written in Extende JavaScript language to forma
CP are ed alize jobs, logic, deadllines,
perio
odicity, paraameters, c communicat tion, storag time, capabilities, etc. The AXCP is endowed o an
ge, e of
integ
grated deve elopment e environment and debu Moreov
t ug. ver, any exxecutable p
program in the Oper
n rating
Syste can be put in exec
em cution by an AXCP No and thus controlled by the AX
n ode d XCP Schedu uler. A summary
of the functiona ssible by the AXCP Ru
alities acces ules are reported at th end of th docume they ca be
he his ent, an
recovvered in the manual a
e and in the help provide with the AXCP IDE tools. The AXCP Sc
h ed e E e cheduler ca be
an
contrrolled by oth tool via API, Web Services.
her S
The AXCP Rules can be produced by the
e
AXCP Rule Ed ditor (java script editing and
debu see on t figure on the right side) or
ug, the s
by th AXCP Vi
he isual Designer (visual design,
editin and ver
ng rification). OOnce produ
uced, a
AXCP Rule can be put in th pool of Rules of
he R
the AXCP Scheduler (dat base of AXCP
A ta f
GRID Rules) for their execution on the AXCP
D r e
Node AXCP R
es. Rules can b activated (put in
be d
execcution) in s several manners. The Rules
e
uses may inte
s egrate any combination of
y
functtionalities iincluded in nto the Exxtended
Java Script lan
a nguage and provided by the
d
Plug ins (see in the follow
n wing). They include
acceess to databases, info ormation an data
nd
proceessing, communic cation, storage,
s
secuurity, seman processing, security etc.
ntic y,
AXC Rule Ed
CP ditor is used to produc debug,
ce,
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validate AX XCP Rules to execute e
Nodes via A AXCP Sche eduler. The e
sts the developers with debug,
w ,
intelligence (word completion,
e c ,
and java sc cript function list, etc.).
.
editor can a access to the database e
heduler and change them without
d t
XCP Sche eduler and thus the e
the AXCP tools supp port the hot t
s of AXCP R Rules.
s can be als produce by using
so ed g
l Designer AXVD. A visual tooll
r,
ences of R Rule segme ents and/or r
to define flows tha can be
at e
nd activat ted by the AXCP P
AXVD per rmits to pr rogram the e
n a very simple and accessible e
xpert users. .
CP visual component is provid
ts ded, while additional
created with the AXC Rule Ed
CP ditor in a very simple
v
rary are als produced on deman d.
so d
on is flexib and ope it can be customize in
ble en, e ed
For example by:
omizing AXC Rules to be execute on AXCP Nodes;
CP o ed P
rchies/mesh hes/network of cloud computing in which a
ks
ntrol a nummber of nod des/peers, a
and those nodes may
n
r Schedule ers as well via web services and direct
ns;
l over and fault tolera solution creating chains of
ant ns, g
odes in fail over, redunndant nodes etc.
s,
realizing an installing additional AXMEDIS plug-ins to
nd
ats, encode decode adapter and conv
ers, ers, rs verters, etc.
S Plug-in technology is well docum
s mented and supported
d
ment tool kit and open sources;
t,
XCP GRID Nodes in a hierarch hical/net manner. An
m
may contro one or more AXCP Scheduler which in
ol m rs
rol other AXXCP Nodes, etc.;
reating rules with other processes and activa
s r s, ating them on the Sche
o eduler;
erating syste processes, passing them para
em g ameters/files and gettin eventual errors;
s ng
managing e errors, settin ups reco
ng overy by err policies, rules.
ror
on is base on a Se
ed ervice Orien nted Archite
ecture (SOOA); fully do
ocumented APIs for a the
all
nd WEB Se ervices for accessing and contro olling tools, and for di stributing produced co
p ontent
tribution servers. This means th the a large range of tools from acqui
nt-end dist s hat e isition,
on, data bas and distr
se ribution serv
rvers and soolutions ma very easiily integrate with the A
ay ed AXCP
es may lea to put in execution processes activate other web services, make chang
ad n s, o m ges in
ution main eelements:
:
on any AXC Node, single compu
CP uter, virtual machine;
rized for aut
tomating maanagement activities;
according to different policies: per
o p riodic, sporaadic or on demand;
n synchronous and asy ynchronous manner an by other AXCP Rule
s nd es;
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 activated to return back any kin of results and error codes;
nd s c
 activated by other A AXCP Rules, third partie external tools, web services, …
es …;
 dynamica produce sent to the AXCP S
ally ed, t Scheduler and thus activated;
a
 set up to detect chan nges in the file system , local database, in the P2P, etc.;
e
 activated by Workflo Managem
ow ment Syste ms (Open Flow and Bi
F izTalk), PHP JSP, JAV Web
P, VA,
Service c clients, etc.;
 used to s schedule oth AXCP Rules and A
her R AXCP Schedulers;
 Nodes are controlled by the AXCP Scheduler , and can be
y
 industrial computers or desktop computers in your off
l s p s fices delega
ating at the A
AXCP a pa of their C
art CPU
power de etailing the CCPU percen ntage left to AXCP for each single hour of the week, 24/
o e e /7;
 executed alone (with the AXCP standalon node) for executing sporadic AX
d h P ne r XCP Rules for ad-hoc
processin and activ
ng vation witho demand ing their allocation to the AXCP S
out Scheduler;
 Sttandalone Node allow putting in execution a single AX
ws n XCP Rule fr rom your ap pplications and servers via
a s
a simple she command it is an AX
ell d, XCP Rule w which can be used with hout the AXC Schedu
CP uler. It is an
ea way to access to th whole fu
asy he unctionalities of the AXCP languag for execu
s ge uting an asyynchronous s
prrocesses without callin the Web Service AX
ng XCP Schedu uler.
 Scheduler a allocates an manage AXCP Ru
nd es ules on GR Nodes:
RID
 schedulin and bala
ng ancing
jobs/proc cesses on A AXCP Nodes
according to the Rul processin needs
g le ng
in terms o plug-ins, time and re
of esources:
balancing nodes workloads, De
g eadline
Monotonic, starting t time, optimiization;
 activating jobs as sp
g poradic and periodic
tasks, controlled by other tools and/or
web serv vices;
 monitorin progress of production
ng
processe and their status, via logs and
es
in real tim etc.;
me,
 Quick Start permits to a
Q activate AXCP Rules
in a very simple manner by passing them
n r g
paarameters; for example a collection of
es
obbjects, a pa a databa
ath, ase, a quer a list
ry,
of files, etc., or just a clic
f ck;
 Sttandalone Node allow putting in execution a single AX
ws n XCP Rule fr rom your ap pplications and servers via
a s
a simple she command This solut
ell d. tion is an ea way to access to th whole fu
asy he unctionalities of the AXCP
fo executing an asynch
or g hronous process withou calling the Web Serv
ut vice AXCP S Scheduler.
AXC for Cr
CP ross Med Rich Media a
dia, and Multi
imedia Content P
C Processing
The AXCP is la
A argely adopted the inte elligent and integrated managem
d d ment of conntent distribution chann nels,
taking into accou formats devices, business m
g unt s, b models, serv vices, etc. AXCP can b used for the automated
A be r
mana agement, of data and c
f content proccessing, pree-/post-prodduction processing and for distrib
d bution of a la
arge
range of content formats, for autom
e matically p roducing, crawling, metadata in
c m ngestion and process sing,
proceessing, pac ckaging, a adapting, transcoding formattin
t g, ng, and/or repurpos
r sing conten files, user
nt,
regist
trations, proofiles, licens and data of any kind. AXCP red
sing, etc., of content a
o f duces the costs of con
c ntent
mana agement, s supports the whole value chain and mak
v n kes real th converg ence of media, and the
he m
intero
operability o content e
of enabling multi-channe l distributio (e.g., mo
on obile, web, satellite, kiosk, iTV, P
P2P,
intera
activity, etc) and provi
), ides a flexible and inteeroperable DRM, for both B2B a
b and B2C ac cross traditional
and P2P distribu
P ution platform
ms.
The AXCP offers functionalities to supp and set up integra
A s port t ated activitie of:
es
 coontent Ingeestion and gathering, database management (traditio onal and R RDF), craw
wling, index
xing,
ar
rchiving, ga
athering from OAI, etc.;
m
 quuery, downl load and puublication on social netw
n tworks: Face
eBook, You uTube, Flick XMF, Cin
kr, neca;
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 ontent storage and retrieval, active querying: SQL and SPARQL;
co e S
 onnection w Europea and any OAI-PMH server;
co with ana y
 ontent proce
co essing, rep purposing, adaptation, transmodin transco
a ng, oding for teext, docs, images, aud
dio,
vid
deo, multim
media, XML, SMIL, HTM styles, M
ML, MXF, newsM MPEG- MPEG-2 3D, ebook, etc.;
ML, -4, 21,
 meetadata reppurposing, a adaptation, transcoding integration, enrichme validatio
t g, ent, on;
 ontent descr
co riptors, extr
raction and comparison fingerprin MPEG-7, MPEG-21 , etc.;
n, nt, ,
 ontent comp
co position, formatting, lay yout, styling
g;
 ommunicatio with data
co on abases, FTP HTTP, P
P, P2P and dist tribution ser
rvers via se
everal protocols;
 ontent packa
co aging: MPE EG-21, MXF OMA, new
F, wsML, ZIP, GameMake etc.;
er,
 ontent prote
co ection via se everal algorithms;
 ontent DRM with MPEG
co G-21 and OMA, with tra acking and reporting rights exploit tation;
 ontent licens
co sing, licensi the prod
ing duction of lic
censes;
 ontent public
co cation and d distribution toward mulltiple chann nels;
 woorkflow mannagement in ntegration with BizTalk and OpenFlow;
w k
 maassive exec cution of pa arallel processes explo oiting Rapid Miner, Im
d mageMagik, FFmpeg, keyword clo
k oud
ge
eneration, D
DRM, etc.;
 us manage
ser ement: regis stration, lice
ensing, profiiling, advert
tising.
AXC Solution Relia
CP ability and Redun
ndancy
The AXCP solut
A tion is scalable in term of num
ms mber of AXC Nodes and AXCP Scheduler The AX
CP P rs. XCP
solutio is highly reliable, s
on y scalable and fault toler
d rant. It may be used to create re
y t edundant architectures in
a s
which multiple Scchedulers a multiple Nodes are organized in clusters and fail ov in chains In this ca
and e e d ver s. ase,
an AXXCP Scheduler will tak the role of master, a
ke and the othhers will be in the chaiin but ready to cover t
y that
role in the case of failure o for rotatio policies. AXCP clou
n or on ud/grid solu
utions may be used to set up hig
o ghly
reliabl architect
le tures in whhich each computer ( scheduler or node) can be put off-line for maintenan
c c r nce
withou stopping the process and at no risk for th running jobs.
ut ses n he
AXCP can run m
P multiple copie of the sa
es ame rules o different AXCP Node making p
on A es possible the setup of fa
e ault
tolerant solutions Moreover AXCP No
s. r, odes autom atically recoonnect with the AXCP Scheduler after a lack of
h k
conneection. The status con asks to be processed and runnin activities of the AX
nditions in terms of ta
t ng s XCP
schedduler is continuously saved on ne HD, and allows disa
et aster recove This in
ery. nformation can be sha
c ared
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amo the sev
ong veral AXCP Scheduler in the sa
P rs ame chain to set up au
t utomated re ecovering. In the case of
e
changing Sche eduler (one abandoned or it has been reboo
d oted for failure), the ne one tak the control
ext kes
imm
mediately. T Thus, the AAXCP Nodes are aut tomatically reconnecte to the new one. The replac
ed ced
Scheduler can be reboot a posed in the chain The corre implementation of th highly re
and i n. ect he eliable solut
tion
implies the usa of multiple network cards, and reliable in
age k d ndustrial commputers. Th solutions can be setup
he s
on different kin of opera
d nd ating system such as Windows Servers, Windows 7, V
ms S W Vista and XP, home a
X and
prof
fessional, 32 and 64 bits versions. Virtual ma
2 achines and appliance are provide as well.
ed
AXC solution may be set up on a single compu with all inside as well as on m
CP t uter w many industrial or desktop
com
mputers (tha may put a disposal a part of the CPU power and file system). E
at at eir e Each node may share file
syst
tems and a access inde ependently on the net twork and thus on databases. Th
t hus, solutio with large
ons
num
mbers of disstributed da
atabases are possible; to realize data and/or computatio
e d r onal GRID solutions w with
shared or partit
tioned databases and data source es.
The AXCP can be used to set up hierarchical solutions, in which multiple AXC Schedu
e n h m CP ulers with th
heir
nodes are activ
vated by oth nodes and Rules. T
her a This allows setting up hierarchicall networks, meshes, cu
h ube
and other parallel and dist nfigurations for computing on phys
tributed con sical and/or on the clouud.
Oth AXCP based integrated solut
her P tions
The AXCP solution can be used an indepen
e a ndent tool, but it has also bee designed to be us
, s en sed
with
h:
 P2P Contr rolled Netwwork, for coontent distri bution via P2P, B2B and B2C Bit
P a echnology w
tTorrent Te with
queries an catalogu for protected con
nd ue, ntent or no automating conten publicatio
ot, nt on/distribution,
controlling the P2P ne etwork, extrracting statiistical data and reports. AXMEDI P2P netw
IS work has PP2P
clients for P and Mob
PC biles.
http://www.axmedis.or rg/documen nti/view_doccumenti.php p?doc_id=3612
 AXMEDIS DRM, is a s
A solution to adopt MPEG
a G-21 DRM with other DRM solutio
D ons, include servers a
es and
licensing toools and allo
ows DRM, detection of attacks, black list management, collection of actions lo
d f o ogs
containing traces ab bout the rights exp ploitation, tools for administra ative mana agement, e etc.
http://www.axmedis.or rg/documen nti/view_doccumenti.php p?doc_id=3616
 AXMobile: the end-to-
A -end solutio for mobile content production and distribut
on e tion;
 AXMEDIS Editor and players, tools for M
A d t MPEG-21 an AXMEDIS authorin (SMIL, HTML, MPE
nd ng H EG-
4, and of a kind of digital reso
any ource), DRM licensing, protection packaging workflow playing, e
M, n, g, w, etc.
AXMEDIS authoring on Window AXMED
A ws. DIS players for: MS Windows, L
s W Linux as core, Windo ows
Mobile 5 and 6, and j java mobile java for PC, STB/P
es, r PVR/HDR, Media Cen nters, PDA, and mobiles.
They can b customize as GUI and function
be ed a nalities. Exaamples of customizatio are available.
ons
http://www.axmedis.or rg/documen nti/view_doccumenti.php p?doc_id=3634
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Examples of solu
E s utions ex
xploiting AXCP te
echnolog and to
gy ools
 ECLAP: European Collected Library of P
L Performing art, http://w
a www.eclap.e for an in
eu, nfrastructure and
e
solution f Social N
for Networking for perform ming art proffessionals and lovers, with the au
a utomated co ontent
ingestion annotatio enrichme multilin
n, on, ent, ngual additio ons, contex xtualization and posting informatio on
on
Europeana EDM. A AXCP is adopted in ECLAP portal as the back off
a p fice engine for automating:
gathering content, processing metadata, estimating similaritie and reco
g , g es ommendatio ons, multilingual
semantic indexing, crawling OAI-PMH, e
c O export to Europeana, multichann content adaptation and
E nel n
repurpos sing, watch dog of th cloud se
he ervices, prooducing rec commendat tions, sema antic computing,
productio of similar
on rities among users, est
g timation of audiovisual descriptors etc.
a s,
 APRE T Toscana: ht ttp://www.ap pretoscana
a.org a best practice network, co
t n ollaborative work porta and
al
blog for sstimulating access at the Europea Commis
t an ssion funding and acce essing to related inform
mation
and even AXCP i adopted as the bac office eng
nts. is d ck gine for autoomating: ga athering conntent, proce
essing
metadata estimatin similaritie multiling
a, ng es, gual semantic indexing multichan
g, nnel content adaptation and
n
repurpos sing, produ ucing recom mmendation semant computing, recom mendations productio of
ns, tic s, on
newslette ers.
 Mobile Medicine: http://mobm med.axmed dis.org mult tichannel social netwo for me
ork edical persoonnel,
portal to support mo obile content productio and dist
on tribution, medical proc cedures, pro oduction of mini-
applicatioons for do osage estim mation and decision taking support, app
d plications in the area of:
n as
emergen ncy, educat tional, critic conditio
cal ons, etc. AXCP is adopted for automate productio of
A r ed on
intelligen content f pc and mobile, iP
nt for Phone (see Mobile Medicine on Apple Sto
e ore), iPad, PDA,
semantic computing estimatio of recom
c g, on mmendation symboli similarity multilingu indexing and
ns, ic y, ual g
fuzzy sea arch;
 OAI-PMH Monitoring & Craw
H wling facili at DISIT AXCP is adopted for automa
ity T: s ated ingestiion of
worldwid Open Ac
de ccess archives via OA PMH, as
AI ssessment of quality of metadat archives and
ta, s
services, semantic reasoning, automa
, c ated metadata recon nciliation a and mapp ping, autom mated
repurpos sing and disstribution;
 Monitori ing P2P B Bittorrent networks. A
n AXCP is adopted fo accessin at sanitized inform
a or ng mation
regarding P2P wor
g rkload and activities, a assessment of quality of metada
y ata, archive and serv
es vices,
semantic reasoning, automated reconciliat
c d tion, produc
ction of repoorts.
AXCP is an innovative s
A solution and technolog selected in the 2011 by the Itallian Nationa Agency fo the
d gy 1 al or
Diffusion of Innovative Technologies, at the P
D Premiership of the Italian Ministry Council. They are de
p y T efined
as “Innovatioons selecte by the Italian Inno vators”, na
ed amely "Inno ovazioni se elezionate dall’Italia degli
In
nnovatori" in Italian lan
nguage. Ge last versio of the tools:
et on
AXCP TOOL free full ve
A L ersion 4.0: http://www.
.axmedis.or
rg/documen nti/view_doccumenti.phpp?doc_id=4 4398
AXCP: see t linked p
A the page at the Ministry po ortal, or see the link at DISIT DSI University of Florence; This
o
in
nnovation has been ini itially developed within the AXME
n EDIS Projec while it h been st
ct, has trongly improved
during last y
years, thus adding inno ovative funcctionalities and robustness. In ge eneral terms the innov
s, vative
soolution conssists in a la
anguage for programm
r ming multime edia grid for semantic computing and proces ssing.
The solution has been identified as one the most inn
T n n e novative sol lution for m
media proceessing, by other
Research an Innovati
R nd ion agencie and it is also desc
es s cribed in IEEEE Multim media, IEEE Computer Soc
E r
Press, April 2
P 2012, and in other pap pers.
The AXCP innovative t
T tool can be used for a very large range of media com
e e mputing applications ranging
fr
rom DRM t P2P mo
to onitoring, from adaptio to distribution and Content D
on Delivery Ne
etwork, semmantic
coomputing, e In ECLA the AXC is used for automat
etc. AP, CP ting:
 adaptatio of conten during in
on nt ngestion, so as to prod
o duce the content for PC and mobiles and ma
C anage
cross me edia contentt;
 calculatio of sema
on antic distan
nces among users and objects and among objects and objects, with
g a g
clustering technolog
g gies;
 social ne etwork mana agement.
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8. Conte Pro
ent ocessin Med Grid AXC
ng dia d, CP
AXC Rules Functionalities
CP Met
tadata models and proces ssing
In the AXCP JavaS
A Script langua
age, the follow
wing  metadata mo odels and exte ensions:
o Dublin Core full set
functio
onalities area accessible as native operators and/o
a or
o comple metadata s
ex such as: EAD, DC
plug in The addition of new fu
ns. unctionalities is possible b
s by o ECLAP metadata
P
adding new plug in or by crea
g ns, ating Javascr ript o multiple Unique IDs and descripto UUID, ISB
ors: BN,
functio
onalities. Mos of the follo
st owing capabilities are ISRC, ISAN, ISMN, etc., your IDs
availab on the light version of the AXCP tools.
ble f o busine metadata s
ess such as: AXIn
nfo
The following featu ures are ONL examples of the full se
LY s et o Potent tially Available Rights, PAR, Licensing
e
of func
ctionalities of the AXCP.
f informa ation in MPEG G-21 REL
o any custom metadatta
Firing and control a
a activities o Workflow information n
 Activation via AXXCP schedule web service
er o Protec ction informatio on
 Activation via AXXCP Quick Sta tool
art o Conten descriptors as Metadata
nt
 Activation via Wo orkflow tools o MPEG descriptors
G-7 s
 Activation via yo Application Java, C++, PHP, JSP, C
our ns, CGI, o Conten fingerprint fo recognition and monitorin
nt for n ng
etc
c. distribu
ution channels s
o Europe eana metadata ta
 Activation via de
etection of files changing, ch
s hanging in
dattabases, etc.  metadata ma anipulation and processing:
d
o mappin conversion via XSLT
ng n
 Cro activation of a rule via a
oss another rule, usage of multip
u ple
o proces ssing via XSLT T
schhedulers and nnodes
 Tim periodic an
me nd/or sporadic activations
c
Con
ntent Process sing for audio videos, document, images, and
o
 Dyynamic produc ction, allocation and activatio or rules
on
any files:
y
 Dyynamic update of the grid no executable and libraries
e ode e s.  rces adaptatio and transco
digital resour on oding
 extraction of descriptors annd/or fingerpri
ints
Conten and metada access, in
nt ata om
ngestion and gathering fro
 watermarking g
 CM and datab
MSs bases:
 indexing, classification
o RDF/RDFS/OWL databases: SESAM OWLIM ME,
o ODBC, My ySQL, non-SQ database
QL  summarizatio on
o XML datab bases, Tamino eXact
o,  filtering
o Lobster®, MSSQL, HP DMP, ..  repurposing
 OA PMH, Open Archive base accesses;
AI n ed  recognition
 Ma communica
ain ation protocols
s:  search and retrieval
o SQL, Web Services, FT HTTP,
b TP,  production of simple and a
f animated thum mbnails, icons
o SFTP, HT TTPS  MIME type description and access of file
d es
o WebDAV, SMB, Gopher, NNTP
 Lin
nked Open Da ata Sem
mantic Proces ssing, intellig
gence reason ning
 Lin
nked Open Me edia  Data Clustering
 opeerating system files:
ms  Integration with semantic d
w database: SES SAME and OWWLIM
o MS Windo ows, Windows Servers, etc.
s inference enggine
 Ric media form
ch mats:  Integration with CoSKOSA of OSIM, fo Ontology
w AM or
o MXF, New wsML, IMS SC CORM, MPEG-21, HTML, production and NLP, http:///openmind.ax xmedis.org
SMIL, etc..  Production of recommenda ations: user and content
 A range of Craw
r wling and data mining tools  Processing of ontologies
o
 Distances of profiles: users and media
rs
Conten and metada managem
nt ata ment and retri ieval  Processing of Taxonomies
o s
 Coontent production for iPhone iPad, Android, Windows
e,  TILCO tempo logic engiine
oral
Phone (audio vid deo, images, eepub, etc.)
 Coontent production for Conten Organizer player for smar
nt p rt Tex
xt/Document processing, a adaptation an transcodin
nd ng:
pho and tablets (iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows Phon
one W ne):  Natural Lang guage Process sing:
http://www.eclap p.eu/drupal/?q=node/94220 o Integra ation with ANN
NIE, GATE, JA APE
 from multi-archiv content cra
ve awling, extracti and
ion o Crawle tokenizer, T
er, Tagger, PosTa agger, etc. in Italian
agggregation with metadata
h and En
nglish
 from any databa ases via HTTP and/or ODBC etc.
P C,  text processing with regula expressions and other
ar s
 from AXMEDIS d database (MP PEG-21 databa ase) or from techniques
oth
hers  text language detection
e
 acttualizing the q
queries into the scripts, defin
e nition of  text language translation w external to
e with ools
acttive/dynamic qqueries  text transcodding by format :
 from P2P AXME EDIS network o PDF-T TXT, HTML, PS RTF,
S,
 ind
dexing of meta adata and full ttext with Luce and/or Sollar
ene o MS-Wo Plain textt, ….
ord,
 inte
egration with H DMP, Digital Media Plat
HP tform  text keywords Multilanguag ge:
 Inte
egration with oother solutions for content distribution see
s d e o Extraction from com mparison (corpus based)
http://WWW.AXM MEDIS.ORG o Extraction from sem mantic analysis
s
 text fingerprint:
o Extraction, Plagiaris detection
sm
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9. Conte Pro
ent ocessin Med Grid AXC
ng dia d, CP
 Fu text indexing with Lucene and/or Solr.
ull g e raw assets su as text, im
uch mages, audio, video, animati
ion,
metadata, descriptors, licen
nses,
Audio Processing, adaptation and transcoding: and other
 Auudio transcodin and proces
ng ssing of:  bjects in forma
multimedia ob ats
o WAV, WM MPEG, VO
MA, ORBIS, AC3, DV, o MPEG- HTML, SM
-4, MIL
o MACE, AD DPCM, AAC, real audio, AIFF, o MPEG- (supported by AXMEDIS Editor and
-21 d S
o PARIS, NIST, SVX, IRC CAM, W64, SD MP3,
D2, players for MPEG-21
s 1)
o etc. o NewsM (load), MXF (load and sa
ML F ave)
 Auudio descriptor extraction a recognition:
rs and
o Low level descriptors ex xtractor: wave
eform, spectru
um, Mult
timedia and cross media a
c adaptation/pr rocessing
MFE, MFCC, ZCR, Spectra Flatness,
centroid, M al  Create MPEG G-4
onset and offsets, etc
c.  Create MPEG SMR (Sym
G-4 mbolic Music representation
r n)
o High level descriptors e
l extractor: audio segmentatio
on,  Audio visual processing:
p
music gen rhythm, si
nre, ilence detectio spoken/mu
on, usic o concate enation, delay extract
y,
content, n
noise  MPEG-4 remove tracks
o Polyphoni audio transc
ic coding  conversions:
 Au
udio fingerprint estimation and recognition n: o MPEG- to 3gp
-4
o M2Any fin ngerprint algorrithm and recoognition o MPEG- to AVI
-4
o Philips fingerprint algorithms o MPEG- to ISMA
-4
o AudioID fi ingerprint algo
orithm o SMIL to HTML
o
o extractors and comparis of fingerprints
s son
o detection of plagiarism neral Informat
Gen tion Processiing of:
 RingTones:  Load/import, production an saving of XML files for
nd
o Operation of: resample clip, etc.
ns e, commands an nd/or metadatta
o based on E4X mode l
o
Video Processing, adaptation an transcodin
nd ng:  Load/save an file from/to tthe operating system, serve
ny er,
 Vid transcodin and proces
deo ng ssing of FTP etc.
o FFMPEG and other libr raries  Production of custom, temp
f plate and/or behavior-basedd,
o MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MP PEG-4, VC1, H.261,
H HTML pages
o RealVideo 1.0, RealVid 2.0, MJPE
o deo EG,  Production of custom, temp
f plate and/or behavior-basedd,
o RAW, loss sless MJPEG, FLV, SMIL scenes
o H.263, WM ASF, AS
MV, SUS, DV, YUV ASV1,
V,  Processing XSLT with XAL
X LAN
o ASV2, SV VQ1, SVQ2, A FLAC, DA
AVI, AUD, AVS,
o H.264, VP FFW, Flas VCR1, VCR
P3, sh, R2, tribution and control of P2 network
Dist 2P
o CLJR, Apple, DXA, THP AASC, DVD 3GPP,
P, D,  Monitoring of P2P nodes a nd network status
o etc.  Automatic publication of co
ontent into the P2P network
 Vid descriptor MPEG-7
deo rs  Automatic download of con ntent from the P2P network
o GoF/GoP, and dominan color
nt  Control the se
eeding capabiilities
o Homogen neous Texture  Accessing to reporting and statistics
d
o Color Stru
ucture  Remote contr of P2P netw
rol work
o Contextua descriptors
al  Removing obsolete conten from P2P ne
nt etwork
o production of simple an animated th
n nd humbnails, ico
ons
 Vid fingerprint:
deo Integ
gration with Social Netwo
S orks and sour rces
o extractors and comparis of fingerprints
s son  YouTube: que download and upload, processing
ery, d
o detection of plagiarism
 Flickr: query, download and upload, proc
d cessing
 Facebook, Tw witter
Image Processing, adaptation a transcoding:
and
 LOD and LOM sources, DB
M Bpedia
 Im
mage conversio of more th 150 differe formats:
ons han ent
o JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP, T SVG, PS, PDF, MPEG
TIF, G,  XMF social ne etworks (ECLA APRETOSCANA, IUF, etc.)
AP,
PCX, PGH PICT, PIX, RGB, TGA, TXT,
H, T tool to make your social ne
y etwork: query, download and d
o WMF, XPM, YUV, YCbCr, YcbCrA, etc. e upload, proceessing, http://x
xmf.axmedis.oorg
 tex to image co
xt onversion, PDF to image, PS to image
F S  Posting of news on social n networks with social icons,
connection with OpenAuth..
 Im
mage processin algorithms:
ng :
o Contrast, edge, blur, me edia, mirror, equalize,
e
Com
mmunication Capabilities:
o magnify, rresize, roll, sca shade,
ale,
o negate, nooise, filtering, rotate, past, spread,
s  Massive Cont tent ingestion and processing, User Geneerated
o extract, ov
verlap, replace shear,
e, stion, massive content inges
content inges stion as in ECLAP
o production of thumbnails, icons, ….
n social network.
 Access via a large range off databases
Digital File Fingerprint and reco ognition  Access via Web Services; d
W dynamic clien generator ba
nt ased
 Esstimation of fin
ngerprint of dig
gital files: on WSDL
o MD5, SHA base64, a
A-1, ascii-bin, etc.  Access via FT
TP/SFTP sites GET/PUT, etc.
s, e
 Reecognition of ffingerprint by s
similarity  Access via op
perating syste activating shells, etc.
em,
 Sending commands HTTP,, HTTPS
Conten Composition Presentat
nt tion and Inter
ractive modells  Sending Mails with attachm
s, ments and/or HTML, SMS
 cre
eation of cross media and m
s multimedia con
ntent combinin
ng  Creating repo and newslletters in:
orts
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10. Conte Pro
ent ocessin Med Grid AXC
ng dia d, CP
o TXT, CSV HTML/CSS, XML, XHTML, …
V, o Rule based
b
o Ontolo and infere
ogy ential engine based
b
Workflow managem ment Product tion Process  Scripting cap
pabilities for e
expanding DIA and decision
A n
 int
tegration of the AXCP tools with OpenFlo and BizTal k
ow taking engine
Workflow Mana
W agement systems
o receive co ommands Content Protecttion and DRM M
o activate s scripts passing parameters
g  Content regiistration (uniqu IDs) and verification
ue
o returning values and re esults  Content and digital files siignature
d
 deefinition of full customized so olution for workflow  Content fingerprints and w watermarks
management  Protection of digital resou rces and obje ects with MPEG G-21
 WEB based inte
W erfaces for cre
eating GUI to control AXCP
c IPMP, OMA
GR processin
RID ng  protection/en
ncryption:
 WEB based inte
W erface for monnitoring AXCP reports and o AES, DES, 3-DES, blowfish, Ciph CAST her,
results  Tracking expploited rights a reporting actions perfor
and rmed
 Coollaborative W Workflow solutions to the conten owner, distr
nt ributors, collec
cting societies etc.
s,
 Manipulating MPEG-21 pr
g rotected objec according t
cts to
Content Packages, Media Conta
, ainers and DR RM AXCP Node license
e
 MPEG-21 file re and produ
ead uction, with any digital  Open to inte
egrate other D RM solutions
resource inside, from other M
MPEG-21 to HT TML, SMIL,
roups of files a related res
gr and sources Content Licensing and DRM M
 MPEG-21 to keep joined your metadata an digital
nd  generating liicense from liccense model and additional
a l
resources as we as to packa and delive
ell age ering them as information, storing licensses, and postin to license s
ng server
un
nique chunks o information with DRM
of automatically
 OM files produ
MA uction  supporting trranscoding/traanslating licen
nses (MPEG-2 21
 IM SCORM ingestion
MS REL, OMA ODLR);
O
 ZIP ingestion an production
nd  posting licennses on licens server
se
 roduction of MPEG-2 TS str
pr reams  verification of licenses
o
 RS ingestion a production
SS and n  resolving naationality from IPs
 ATTOM ingestion and producti (in progres
n ion ss)
 MX ingestion a production
XF and n Content Publicaation and Dis stribution
 ne
ewsML ingestion and produc ction  supporting distribution tow
d wards multiple channels, for one
e r
or more: Inteernet, satellite mobile, P2P distributions
e, P
WEBtv IPTV
v,  producing, monitoring and editing progr
m d rammes and
 ing
gestion and pr EPG, XML EPG for DVB-T,
rocessing of E schedules
DVVB-S, ..  controlling P2P AXMEDIS network in do
P S ownloading annd
 Int
tegration from Sky EPG ser
m rver publishing reeducing the se eeding time to zero
o
 connecting other AXMEDIIS Factories of content
o o
Content Formatting g integrators, producers, an distributors
nd
 str
ructuring and styling conten elements by means of
nt y  posting co ontent on th he EUTELS SAT Carouse forel
SM based tem
MIL mplates broadcasting g.
 appplying style-s
sheets to defin the usage in
ne nterface
(fo
ormat, layout) of the whole ccollection of co
ontent
ele
ements and th interested c
he content usage paradigms
e
 Ge hms for best time fitting, etc.
enetic Algorith
Profiling and their management t
 Re eading and ma anipulating:
o user profiles
o network p profiles
o context pr rofiles
o device pro ofiles
 Re ecommendatio ons, favorites, voting, etc. based on static
, b c
an dynamic pr
nd rofiles and sim
milarities
 Sttatistical and e
empirical algorrithms Co
ontact:
 Re easoning base on Clustering: k-medoids K-Means
ed s, Tel: +339-055-479 6523
an other algori
nd ithms
 Re easoning base on profile d
ed distances.
Fax:+3 39-055-479 6469/363
Paolo.nesi@unifi. .it
Content Adaptation Process
n http://w
www.disit.ds
si.unifi.it
 Baased on profiling and rule ba
ased
 Digital Item Adaaptation based on MPEG-21 DIA
d 1
 Deecision taking engine for DIA based on th above
A he
mentioned profiles.
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