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Preface | |
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Introduction | |
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What is content? | |
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Content and intellectual property rights | |
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CMS versus DAM-S and MAM-S | |
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Application domains | |
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Content management in television, radio, and media production | |
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Content management in 'non-media' organizations | |
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Content management in advanced media services | |
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Content management: the problem illustrated | |
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Media and essence handling requirements | |
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Requirements for metadata creation and handling | |
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User requirements example: television production applications | |
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Integration into production | |
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Essence management | |
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Browsing | |
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Information management | |
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User interface requirements | |
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Operational requirements | |
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System requirements | |
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Architectural system requirements | |
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Requirements summary | |
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Content-related workflows | |
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Who is dealing with content? | |
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Content access in production | |
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Content access in documentation and cataloging | |
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Search and retrieval of content | |
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Content-related administrative and management tasks | |
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The role of a content manager | |
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Workflows in broadcast | |
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Sequential versus content-centric workflow model | |
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Basic broadcast workflows | |
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Ingest and logging workflow | |
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Search, query, and production workflow | |
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Impact of content management on broadcast workflows | |
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Workflows in e-commerce systems | |
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Workflow in the CMS back-end | |
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Ingest, documentation, and content management | |
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Fulfillment and delivery | |
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Workflow in the e-commerce front-end | |
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Selection and presentation of content | |
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The sales process | |
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Content-related workflows in corporate and other organizations | |
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Content management in training and e-learning | |
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Content-related workflows in marketing and sales | |
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Content creation for marketing and sales | |
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Content distribution | |
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Essence | |
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The different forms of essence | |
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Basic essence elements | |
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Structured essence formats | |
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High-resolution and browse formats | |
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Basic BIF requirements | |
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Encoding and compression basics | |
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Encoding: from the analog to the digital domain | |
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Compression: reducing the bit rate | |
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Video | |
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Video encoding: basics and principles | |
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MPEG-based formats | |
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MPEG-1 | |
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MPEG-2 | |
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MPEG-4 | |
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DV-based formats | |
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DV format: encoding basics | |
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DV professional compression according to SMPTE | |
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Video formats in the context of CMS | |
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Audio | |
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Audio encoding: basics and principles | |
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MPEG-based audio formats | |
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MPEG-1 audio | |
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MPEG-2 audio | |
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MPEG-4 audio | |
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Audio formats in the context of CMS | |
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Images, Web, text, and other essence formats | |
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Images | |
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JPEG | |
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GIF | |
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TIFF | |
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BMP | |
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Structured documents | |
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SGML | |
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Web pages and HTML | |
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Essence processing | |
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Essence processing applications and services | |
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Essence processing: basic principles and methods | |
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Essence processing tools in content management systems | |
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Content representation and metadata | |
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The representation of content | |
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Metadata: the description of content | |
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Object-related metadata | |
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Workflows and content description | |
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Rights-related metadata | |
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Data models and metadata | |
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Segment-related metadata | |
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Logical content structure and content hierarchies | |
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Object references | |
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Metadata access and exchange | |
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Search and query for metadata | |
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Metadata exchange | |
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Metadata description schemes | |
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SMEF and P/Meta | |
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SMEF basics | |
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The SMEF entity structure | |
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The SMEF data model | |
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MPEG-7 | |
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MPEG-7 systems | |
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MPEG-7 data description language (DDL) | |
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MPEG-7 visual and audio parts | |
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MPEG-7 multimedia description schemes (MDS) tools | |
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MPEG-7 reference tools and relationships | |
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SMPTE Metadata Dictionary | |
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The Metadata Dictionary structure | |
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Metadata Dictionary element structure | |
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SMPTE unique material identifier | |
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Dublin core | |
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Standards for metadata transmission and exchange | |
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The key-length-value (KLV) protocol | |
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Key-length-value structure | |
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KLV data coding | |
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Extensible markup language (XML) | |
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Document type definitions (DTD) | |
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W3C XML schema | |
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XML processing | |
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XML and metadata | |
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The media object server protocol | |
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The simple object access protocol (SOAP) | |
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File formats | |
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Media eXchange format (MXF) | |
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The MXF file structure | |
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Metadata in MXF | |
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Structural metadata | |
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Descriptive metadata | |
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Operational patterns | |
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Advanced authoring format (AAF) | |
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AAF file structure | |
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Essence in AAF | |
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AAF class model and class hierarchy | |
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BWF and other multimedia file formats | |
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The broadcast wave format | |
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Content management system architecture | |
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Software design principles | |
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Scalability by distribution | |
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Service groups | |
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Broker-manager-server concept | |
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Software architecture | |
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Essence management | |
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Data management | |
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CMS component software architecture | |
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The core | |
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Essence management | |
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Archive management servers | |
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Archive transfer manager | |
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Archive transfer servers | |
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Cache servers | |
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Streaming managers | |
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Streaming servers | |
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Transfer managers | |
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Transfer servers | |
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Device management | |
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Device managers | |
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Device servers | |
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Data management | |
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Information systems | |
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Data managers | |
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Data manager resolver | |
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Data brokers | |
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Services | |
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Ingest | |
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Playout | |
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Import | |
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Export | |
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Editing | |
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Conversion | |
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Analysis | |
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Video analysis service | |
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Audio analysis service | |
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Other analysis services | |
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Watermarking | |
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Order management | |
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Watch folder | |
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Web retrieval | |
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Workspace management | |
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Applications | |
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Supporting services | |
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Job management | |
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Workflow management | |
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Task management | |
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Transaction control | |
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System management | |
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Naming | |
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Event logging | |
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Process monitoring | |
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Resource management | |
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System administration | |
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User management service | |
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Accounting and licencing | |
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Messaging | |
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Configuration | |
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Remote installation | |
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Content management system infrastructure | |
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Infrastructure: basic principles | |
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Infrastructure components and sub-components | |
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Increasing system reliability via hardware redundancy | |
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Hardware design and configuration principles | |
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Deciding on server configurations | |
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Deciding on redundancy | |
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Deciding on storage | |
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Designing the networks | |
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Isolating interfaces | |
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Storage systems | |
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Server-attached storage (SAS) | |
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Network attached storage (NAS) | |
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Storage area networks (SAN) | |
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SAN management | |
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SAN-based backup | |
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SAN requirements in content production | |
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Mass storage solutions | |
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Videotape-based systems | |
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IT-based mass storage systems | |
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Storage devices for long-term storage | |
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Videotape recorders | |
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Optical disk drives | |
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Data tape drives | |
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Hard-disk-based online storage | |
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Combining technology | |
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Supporting workflows by a baseline system infrastructure | |
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Generic system layout | |
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Contribution and ingest | |
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Ingest control and recording | |
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Transport of production quality essence | |
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Access to browse copies and keyframes | |
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Real-time analysis and annotation | |
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Archive | |
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Query and retrieval | |
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Interface to production and playout | |
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Cataloging and archiving | |
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Administration | |
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Operational consideration | |
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Migration | |
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Using automatic tape libraries | |
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Monitoring carrier integrity | |
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Carrier replacement and decommissioning policies | |
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Costs | |
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Initial cost | |
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Internal cost | |
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Cost of operation | |
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Case study: near-online systems | |
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Case study: online systems | |
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Case Study: browse server | |
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System and data integration in CMS | |
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Integration principles | |
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Types of integration | |
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Integration via data exchange | |
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Integration via application programming interfaces | |
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Integration of application components | |
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Integration process | |
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Requirements study and component analysis | |
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System and interface design | |
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Implementation, testing, and installation | |
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CMS and legacy systems | |
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Introducing CMS in existing infrastructures | |
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Migration of legacy essence | |
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Integration of existing databases and information | |
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Migration of legacy databases and information systems | |
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Integration of legacy databases and information systems | |
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Integration of third-party systems | |
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Integration with enterprise-wide third-party systems | |
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Integration with enterprise resource planning systems | |
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Integration with rights management systems | |
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Integration of function-specific third-party systems | |
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CMS and automation system/media management system | |
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CMS and nonlinear editing systems | |
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Integration with newsroom systems | |
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CMS and Web integration | |
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Applications | |
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Application design principles | |
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Application and user requirements | |
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Access rights and user roles | |
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Component-based application design | |
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CMS applications and componentware | |
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Reusable application modules | |
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Player | |
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Clip list | |
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Time-line | |
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Device control panels | |
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Metadata editor | |
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Query interfaces | |
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Thesaurus pickers | |
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Hit lists | |
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Application views including keyframes | |
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Input application control | |
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Import | |
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Ingest | |
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Documentation applications | |
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Logging | |
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Cataloging | |
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Retrieval applications | |
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Search and presentation | |
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Search and querying | |
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Presentation of search results | |
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Detailed content object representation | |
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Advanced retrieval client features | |
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Browse and rough-cut | |
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Rough-cut | |
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Collection and ordering | |
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Export | |
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System administration | |
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Other application components | |
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Media production preparation | |
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Planning and drafting | |
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Commissioning | |
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Rights clearance | |
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Future trends | |
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MPEG-21: multimedia framework | |
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Relevant broadcast initiatives | |
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EBU project future television archives | |
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IETF initiative for content distribution networks (CDN) and content distribution internetworking (CDI) | |
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Experiences and outlook | |
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CMS-related issues | |
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Automatic media analysis and processing tools | |
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CMS as generic, open platform | |
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Workflow considerations | |
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Future developments | |
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Developments in automatic content processing | |
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Information and metadata management | |
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Future infrastructures | |
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IPR management and protection | |
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References | |
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Acronyms | |
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Index | |