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Welcome to the Services Oriented Architectures to Multimedia [SOA2M] project blog.
Multimedia pervasive services research is one of the today’s most promising audiovisual research fields. For us, the latests evolutions of networks and devices and the actual changes in technology use and consommation are two inspiring reasons for this new research activity.
On one hand, with the triple play services offered by mobile operators, with the evolution of new mobile devices in to more powerful difital objects and finally with the support in electronic consumer products of web technologies; we can suppose that we have here a new working horizon and many new challenges for multimedia research in the “web of things” space.
On the other hand, a more dynamic software behavior and a more adequate user approach is required, given the increasing amount of user-produced and annotated media, the nomadic use of multimedia services and the more complex user profiles in the “everyware” services context.
In SOA2M we propose a user-centered-based model for multimedia services description and composition that addresses these both challenges. We focus on services that primarily do real-time complex multimedia composition in a pervasive system that is semantically enhanced.
Our purpose is to semantically model the multimedia experience and the knowledge associated to this particular experience. This means that we need to abstract disparate data and information coming from the multimedia ubiquitous experience and to describe what data means and where it fits. Then, we can understand how differents parts of this hetereogeneus information are related to each other and how it can be composed automatically in a service that allow this kind of dynamic multimedia experience .
In this context, this blog is intended to be an information ressource and an exchange support to this particular research subject. You will find in these pages a daily press review, some external links to related researches, a few documents about our research and some contact links if you want more information about this research subject or about our Ubimedia’s ADR research team.
