Cultural heritage and museum institutions across Europe are progressively holding vast digital collections – either digitized or born digital – that can significantly affect many research fields, both in Social Sciences and Humanities. The I-Media-Cities platform is an interactive ecosystem aiming to share, provide access to and use 9 European film archives AV digital contents to allow multidisciplinary research by means of manual and automatic annotations. This contribution describes the approach and the actions taken in order to perform an effective design and implementation for the visual interfaces required by the project in order to foster the User Experiences for different audiences, such as researchers and citizens.

1. 10 July 2019
I-Media-Cities: A Digital Ecosystem For Enriching A
Searchable Treasure Trove Of Audio Visual Assets
Scipione, Gabriella; Guidazzoli, Antonella; Imboden, Silvano; Trotta, Giuseppe; Montanari,
Margherita; Liguori, Maria Chiara; Caraceni, Simona - CINECA
m.liguori@cineca.it

2. www.imediacities.eu
IMC trailer
https://www.imediacities.eu/

3. A digital ecosystem can be defined as a distributed, adaptive, open
socio-technical system with properties of self-organisation, scalability and
sustainability inspired from natural ecosystems
I-Media-Cities
as a Digital Cultural Ecosystems
https://www.imediacities.eu/

4. I-Media-Cities objectives

5. www.imediacities.eu Agile methodology flow chart

6. www.imediacities.eu
Contents provided until now by archives

7. www.imediacities.eu
IMC Movie Processing Pipeline

8. www.imediacities.eu
Object detection and the need for supercomputing
Visualisation of the object detection activity. Green detects objects with a
confidence higher than 80%, yellow between 50 and 80% and red lower than 50%.

9. Number of
annotations
Number of
annotated terms
Manual annotations 59,457 1,708
Automatic annotations 422,123 78
Geotags 6,411 1,091
I-Media-Cities
manual and automatic annotations
terms annotated until now for a total computing time of 14,998.5
hours over 9,999 processed items

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11. www.imediacities.eu video content item page displaying manual
and automatic metadata

12. Shot revision tool and manual video segmentation

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search results by geo localisation
I-Media-Cities Researchers’ User Interface

14. Virtual Collection Creator Tool
● Modular 3D environments
● First Person View environment
● Point and click interaction
● Item visualization with selected
metadata extracted from the
platform

15. www.imediacities.eu
Virtual Collection Creator Tool
Researchers’ dashboard .JSON File
Python Script
Blender
Blend4Web
Export Files
.JSON + .BIN
HTML5 + WebGL
Output

16. https://imc-vg.hpc.cineca.it/imc_vg/

17. www.imediacities.eu
European Researchers’ Night 2018

18. www.imediacities.eu
Future perspectives
End of November 2018 the platform has been opened to public users