P1002-PF

Project Information

What is this Project about

The future Internet will be an important source of income for the current PNO’s. Services offered will evolve from transport services to transaction and information services (e.g. E-commerce) offering more advanced functional properties in the future. The advance functionality arises from two important sources

On the one hand there is the progress in the general availability of broadband networks all the way to the access networks. This will not only improve the general speed in accessing services (e.g. Internet services), but also the appearance of these services will change due to the fact that full blown multimedia information can be brought to the customers.

On the other hand there is the development of WEB technology by the W3C and other consortia. This technology will support the deployment of more advanced information and transaction services based on enhanced IP protocols, multimedia document transport and presentation standards (e.g. XML, MPEG-7), and meta data frameworks (e.g. RDF).

The combination of broadband networks and WEB-technology opens the way to new multimedia information and transaction services such as next generation web hosting, multimedia search engines, and broadband browsers. Handling of multimedia information is a central element in such services and as a result technology for storage, retrieval, and filtering of multimedia information will become a cornerstone for this future generation of services.

Objectives

The main objectives of this proposal are to:

Provide an extensive overview of state-of-the-art multimedia storage, retrieval, and filtering technology, including distributed multimedia databases, multimedia information retrieval, multimedia information filtering, and standard frameworks and protocols for accessing and distributing multimedia contents including WEB-Documents and WEB-Contents.

Develop a scaleable architecture for distributed multimedia content management and brokerage based on the above technologies that enables the deployment of future Internet services.

Build a distributed prototype implementation realising the above architectures for validation and testing purposes.

Project Results

Deliverable Title	No	Planned issue date
Multimedia technologies, Architectures and Standards	D1	November 2000
Storage, retrieval, filtering architecture	D2/ TI1	June 2001
Revised information about Talmud architecture	D3/ TI2	December 2001
Distributed MM storage, retrieval, filtering platf. Protot.	D4/ TI3	December 2001
Booklet	D5	t.b.d.