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partnership aims to refine digital archive systems - 29/02/08 |
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Cambridge Imaging Systems has agreed a partnering arrangement with Brunel University in a new research project. The project is designed to develop an improved service for attaching the information to digital media which is subsequently needed to locate relevant items from the archive and understand more about them. This ‘metadata’ is added by a community of operators during the media ingestion process. Tony Blake of Cambridge Imaging Systems said: “We have a fundamental interest in metadata solutions and the pioneering approach proposed by the team at Brunel will help business interest grow. Our solutions for the BBC, ITN, MoD and the like are designed as far as possible on the premise that operator time during the media ingestion process is reduced to a minimum." “Our systems are being installed in large environments that serve huge quantities of media to thousands of users across many locations worldwide. With tens of thousands of users accessing some systems from different locations every day, we believe the new approach to metadata creation being proposed offers increased scope for reducing operator time. It would also improve the quality of results presented to users and increase collaboration and communication between them.” The main source of funding for the “MC²: MPEG-7 Content Modelling Communities” project is the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Research is being carried out at Brunel’s School of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics. Dr Harry Agius of Brunel said: “Due to their experience with the Imagen digital archive management system, Cambridge Imaging Systems have two main roles in the project. The first is to assist with evaluating the MC² service, particularly with respect to its business potential. The second is to lead dissemination among the business community.” Project research and evaluation is scheduled to take place throughout 2008 and into 2009. For further information please contact: John Foster (foster.rowsell@btinternet.com) at 01473 652195 |
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