Partners and attendees stressed that the structure of the debates, promoted by UPF, helped to generate fascinating discussion about the characteristics of the post-production industry, and the challenges of improving it via the use of intelligent metadata.
For one day, Universitat Pompeu Fabra became the ideal place to talk about metadata and the future of [...]

The European FP7 Project iMP presents a one-day workshop on:
The Death of Linear Post-production
How intelligent metadata handling is changing the world of film

Wed 30th June 2010 10am

Room 309, Edifici Tanger, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
Directions: Calle Tanger 122-140, 08018 Barcelona. Map.
Registration: Please contact alun.evans@upf.edu
Keynote speaker: Wolfgang Lempp (Filmlight)
Winner of four academy awards this year.
Abstract: [...]

This document describes the novel audible applications developed during the first 12 months of the project, and discusses how they integrate in the general iMP architecture and philosophy. The document is divided in three parts.
The first part describes the novel post-production tools for 3D soundtracks that make use of the metadatabase. This prototype allows [...]

Metadata is data about data.  In the field of digital cinema, it includes all data in related computer files other than that directly encoding the video and audio signals.  Some metadata is essential for playback (e.g., X & Y resolution, bits per sample, sampling rate, and coding method) while other metadata has other uses (e.g. [...]

This document is the accompanying report for the first version of the iMP ontology, available at http://imp.deri.ie/ontology/ – it explains its structure and the methodology used. We note that the ontology is a live document, intended and expected to evolve over the time, based on input by the partners and as we gain deeper knowledge [...]

This document is the report for the containing libraries which implement procedures based on the ontologies, the related documentation, and the proposals for any standards and data formats that may be shared with the distribution and postproduction community.
Four metadata languages are described: RDF, RDFS, OWL and SPARQL. For each one of them the report will [...]

The paper “Understanding Linked Open Data as a Web-Scale Database” has been accepted for publication at the Second International Conference on Advances in Databases, Knowledge, and Data Applications. Co-author Dr. Michael Hausenblas, NUIG, notes that this is an important contribution to the work carried out in WP3 and WP5.

The complete digitalization of audiovisual media is converging towards a scenario of an entire virtual workflow from film production to exhibition.
This document proposes important points of communication among the various technical processes involved in a complete virtual audiovisual production, and describes the requirements for articulating metadata between the various states of media in a Virtual [...]