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Short summary of the workshop: More than 50%(growing) of internet traffic is now represented by video and audio content. Media applications and services are key drivers for Future Internet infrastructures capabilities. Through this session, we propose to built on early results achieved by the FI-CONTENT and EXPERIMEDIA projects. Several potential testbeds will be presented opening the conversation: how testbeds can support pilots, with special consideration to challenges such as user partisipation and architecture/integration approaches allowing the introduction of innovative technologies(generic and specific enablers).

Preliminary agenda

• Introduction 

Speaker: Michael Boniface – IT Innovation/EXPERIMEDIA

• FI-CONTENT objectives: Media and content usage area for FI-PPP

Media traffic represents already more that 50% of internet. The objective of FI-CONTENT is to identify a representative set of use case scenarios that can benefit from the expected progresses that the future internet will bring to the society.

 Speaker: Henri FOURDEUX- Technicolor/FI-CONTENT coordinator

• EXPERIMEDIA objectives: FIRE facility for social and networked media experiments

Offering collective and participative experiences to real-world and online communities is at the heart of the Future Media Internet and forms an essential part of entertainment, collaborative working, education, product and service innovation and advertising. EXPERIMEDIA aims to explore new forms of social interaction and rich media experiences through experiments and pilots conducted at live events offered by culturally and economically important Smart Venues.

Speaker: Michael Boniface – IT Innovation/EXPERIMEDIA

• FI-CONTENT: Media scenarios driving future internet infrastucture capabilities

The work of FI-CONTENT is based on studying innovative use case scenarios with demanding technology and network performances. 5 important content areas, spanning future uses of AV, games, Web, metadata and user created content, are considered and will demonstrate usage beyond current state of the art.

 Speaker: George Wright – BBC/FI-CONTENT

• Key enabling technologies for media scenario experimentations

From the use case scenarios a technical analysis is performed, in order to identify the relevant technologies needed to implement those scenarios into services to the users. Such technology “enablers “ contribute to a service platform  architecture which is discussed with network experts.

 Speaker: Farid Benbadis – Thales/FI-CONTENT

• Accessing and utilising Smart Venues for experiments and pilots

Technologists innovating in novel Future Media Internet applications and services need to rapidly validate ideas and assumptions by transitioning prototypes in the lab to pilots integrated and operated in real-world ecosystems. To integrate technology into an existing ecosystem requires a transition in maturity level and technologists must overcome both technical (e.g. interoperability, integration, etc) and socio-economic barriers (e.g. legal, regulatory, and commercial) to ensure insights gained through experimentation are representative and robust. EXPERIMEDIA directly tackles these issues by offering experiments Smart Venue infrastructure enhanced with generic FMI technologies and a methodology to pull it all together that considers the important relationship between Content Lifecycle (How we experience) and Experiment lifecycle (How we learn).

Speaker: Simon Crowe – IT Innovation

• Testbeds for CONTENT experimentations

An important task of FI-CONTENT is to prepare an experimentation to validate the enablers identified in the project as the key technologies for the realisation of future media internet. That work contemplates several testbeds that will prepare such experimentation. As a starting point, a set of several testbed infrastructure has been identified, that will in a further project phase be deployed to the needed scale in view of life tests. FI-CONTENT will also activate user communities for the large scale experiments in phase 2 and has access to already established regional user focus groups. The user community bootstrapping activities will be fed with all the discussions and trials which have been performed so far by the focus groups in phase 1, in order to build on top of their results.

 EXPERIMEDIA  testbed e.Gg.Schladming Ski resort will be presented.

 Speaker: Pierre-Yves Danet -  Orange/FI-CONTENT; Carmen Mac Williams - Grassroot Arts/FI-CONTENT;  Peter Ljungstrand - Interactive Institute/EXPERIMEDIA

• Open discussion with participants of the Workshop

• Conclusion of the workshop

 Speaker: Henri FOURDEUX- Technicolor/FI-CONTENT coordinator

During the two day event, about 170 experts from 15 nations with 52 talks representing the international media, telecommunication and content industry presented and discussed recent trends and technical challenges for Mobile Applications, Social Media, SmartTV and interactive Content.

FI-CONTENT presented early concepts in the exhibition area.

We received a very positive feedback and had a lot of interesting discussion around our project goals and the developments that will take place in FI-CONTENT

A summary of Media Web symposium is available here

 During the Future Internet Week in Poznan(Oct.24-27), DFKI representatives ran the FI-PPP booth and presented the latest results from FI-CONTENT. Besides the FI-PPP and FI-CONTENT posters and information material, the focus was mainly on the demos from the Content area “Games and virtual environments”

 On an iPad, we showed the Augmented Reality Game demo from Disney/BlackRock that was first time showed at NEM Summit. This time, we also connected to the 3D-Internet- demo from DFKI, which allowed several users with their XML3D- enabled Web browsers  to connect to a Distributed Virtual World that was fully synchronized among the users. The connection between the two demos is one of the major use cases of the “Games and virtual environments” content area.

 Interests and responses from visitors were very positive.

This was the opportunity to exchange with some representatives of FI-CONTENT, have a look to FI-CONTENT posters, enjoy with the video: “How can the medium of Internet best be used in future in Education & Culture” and see the demo presenting a virtual spider inside a real video scene.

 FI-CONTENT will be present at NEM Summit 2011 in Torino, Italy, on 27-29 September 2011. Visit our booth to exchange with FI-CONTENT project representatives

NEM Summit 2011 is the major annual event organized by the Networked and Electronic Media (NEM) Initiative.

Programme and related information concerning the NEM Summit are available on the Summit website at http://nem-summit.eu/.

We are providing a framework to allow transformations of our scenarios into technical outputs, as well as project management to ensure this ambitious project succeeds in creating services and experiments. As individual members, we have extensive expertise in collaborative projects, and as a consortium we can demonstrate actual business and research needs for improvements to today’s Internet which will drive and shape our groundbreaking work.

The project as a whole addresses 5 key areas where today’s Internet can be improved: better QoS and experience, direct Internet connectivity (a serverless world), usage beyond a purely static text/plugin/browser based approach, better tracking of content, and the ability to provide support, failover and resilience across different providers (eg mobile devices, crossing between countries, or moving between different access points (eg home to library).

Our approach will focus on early proof of concepts to facilitate just enough technical specification to deliver requirements to the Core Platform. This will allow us to rapidly propose new scenarios and use cases, and reject them at an early stage if they prove unsuitable. Within our overall content areas, we expect a number of our scenarios to progress through to Phase 2 of the FI project, where we will demonstrate concrete prototypes, SME engagement and running code.