IM3I is an immersive multimedia management and publishing platform that provides a framework for searching, summarizing, and visualizing large multimedia archives. It is based on a service-oriented architecture and can integrate a variety of content processing, analysis, indexing, tagging, annotation, search, and publishing services. The platform has been applied in media production workflows, educational content workflows, and for publishing archived content. It allows flexible composition of services into pipelines and custom interfaces to support various content use cases and user roles.

1. IM3I
Your
multimedia
IM3I -
Immersive management
Multimedia and
Interfaces
publishing
platform
Escape the multimedia content overload |
Single point of access for managing and publishing all your content |
Use, re-use, re-purpose, connect to your peers and aggregate your content! |

2. Tired of managing and searching audio-
visual media?
We are, and we decided to do
something about it!
IM3I provides the creative media sector with a pipelines and workflows; easily
framework to enable new ways of searching, customisable to store extracted
summarising and visualising large multimedia metadata, annotations and other content
archives. This paves the way for a multimedia into any repository structure.
information management platform that is more
• An environment that exploits repository
flexible, adaptable and customisable than current
content by the authoring of flexible user
repository software and enables new opportunities
interfaces whereby each interface
for content owners to exploit their digital assets.
About IM3I element can be fully configured regarding
its layout, the data element it represents
and the functionality it provides. This
Based on a service-oriented architecture, with a
environment is generic enough to allow for
variety of services for processing, analysing,
the designing and building of a variety of
indexing, tagging, annotating searching and
web front-ends to interface with
publishing the platform can be integrated into
multimedia content.
existing offerings and infrastructures and supports
virtually all content-related services for managing
and publishing multimedia content.
The IM3I platform has been applied in media
production scenarios, as part of an educational
content workflow, and for publishing archived
The main elements composing the IM3I platform
content from repositories and proved so its
are:
versatility in composing services into pipelines and
• A back-end where diverse content-based constructing a variety of interfaces to support
indexing modules can be composed into content workflows.
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3. Media production Educational content workflow Publishing archived content
This scenario presents the application of The IM3I platform is here used in an This scenario exemplifies the use of the
the IM3I-platform from the production educational institution to allow students to IM3I platform by an archive aiming to
team of a weekly TV programme on communicate in a structured way with open up content to a more ‘social use’
historic events. It highlights how users with their supervisors about their Final Master and invite teachers and students to
different roles e.g. production manager, Projects. It covers the stages from the prepare presentations on historical
production team, archivists, general submission of proposals until the final events. As such, the archive makes
public, interact from their own evaluation of their project and it is available a collection as an IM3I
perspective in the same production conceived as a tool to keep track of the repository and allows the authoring of a
project with the video and audio materials delivered from the students and “playlist functionality” so that teachers
materials stored in the same repository. the feedbacks received from the can use the content collection to
The search-engine makes use of both supervisors. A third user, the prepare student assignments and lessons.
meta-data and semantic data intrinsic to communication expert of the institution, The IM3I platform is further used as a tool
the materials, which are annotated at the can also access the student’s projects in for the students to prepare presentations
segment level. The interaction of the order to publish them e.g. on the using multimedia illustrations on a specific
general public with the IM3I platform also institution’s website. More than a simple subject. Hence, the IM3I-Platform is here
highlights possible features and communication tool, the search-engine conceived as an easy-to- handle
functionalities related to generating makes use of semantic and manual management system to work with
publicly available documentary listings. annotation as well as meta-data. audiovisual materials.
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4. IM3I -
Immersive
Multimedia
Interfaces
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and get involved to become an early adopter!
IM3I is co-financed by the
European Commission
under the FP7 programme
and is run by a consortium
of 5 SME's and 2 RTD
performers from the UK,
Germany, Austria,
IM3I Consortium Hungary, Italy and the
Netherlands.
c/o IN2 search interfaces development Ltd
Fahrenheitstrasse 1 | D-28359 Bremen | Germany
http://www.im3i.eu/ im3i@in-two.com