TF-Media Porto - MediaMosa workshop - october 26 2011

Frans Ward
Technical Product Manager
SURFnet Advanced Services

MediaMosa: Open Source Media Management
Software to Build an Open Video Platform
“Open Video in Education”
MediaMosa @ TF-Media Workshop
Porto, October 26, 2011 - SURFnet. We make innovation work
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Wednesday, October 26, 11

OVERVIEW

• About SURFnet
And our services. Brieﬂy...

• MediaMosa Introduction
What is it?

• MediaMosa Features
What can it do for you?

• MediaMosa Status, Roadmap, Next
Steps
What more can we expect?

MediaMosa @ 5th TF-Media Workshop


About SURFnet

• The SURFnet network is the
national computer network for
higher education and research in
the Netherlands (NREN)

• Not for proﬁt, 80 employees
• 180 connected institutions,
serving 1 million users

NREN, National Research and Education Network



SURFnet Services
SURFnet provides advanced services to the
Dutch research and education community

High performance networking.
SURFnet plays a leading role in the development
of national, European and world-wide
networking.

Authentication and authorization
services to provide secure access to the
network and other resources.

Advanced multimedia collaboration
tools, including high quality audio/video
streaming and communication.

NREN, National Research and Education Network



SURFnet Video Services
1998 Audio & Video hosting service (FTP) - 1st generation

2003 SURFnet Video Portal - 2nd generation

2005 SURFnet-TV Live Netcasting

2007 Start new generation video services - 3rd generation

SURFmedia (2007)
VP-X Project (2007)
VP-Core Platform (2008)
MediaMosa Software (2009)



Front-ends
Back-ends
SURFmedia
SURFnet’s online mediaportal
http://www.surfmedia.nl/
CDN

✓ Video On Demand (VOD)
✓ Live Streaming

Facts and Figures (June 2011)
• 97.610 assets
• 15 TB data
VP-Core
• 47.979 accounts Powered by
• 11.450 logins per month
• 43 institutions using federative logins
• 4 content suppliers
• 248.049 views per month



Front-ends
Back-ends
SURFmedia
SURFnet’s online mediaportal
http://www.surfmedia.nl/
CDN

✓ Video On Demand (VOD)
✓ Live Streaming

Facts and Figures (June 2011)
• 97.610 assets
• 15 TB data
VP-Core
• 47.979 accounts Powered by
• 11.450 logins per month
• 43 institutions using federative logins
• 4 content suppliers
• 248.049 views per month

SERVICE ENDS 1-1-2013


MediaMosa
Open Source
Software to build a
Media Management and
Distribution Platform

In use by SURFnet and
Kennisnet on their
VP-Core platform since
July 2008

Main Entry: 1me·dia-mo-sa
Pronunciation: ˈmē-dē-ə-mō-ˈzā
Function: open source software to build a media
management and distribution platform
Release Date: 8 april 2009

1 SURFnet. We make innovation work


1 MediaMosa @ 5th TF-Media Workshop


MediaMosa, an Introduction

1 MediaMosa @ 5th TF-Media Workshop


189 REST services
http://mediamosa.org/api

Image credit: lego desktop wallpaper CC BY-NC


PROVEN TECHNOLOGY
MediaMosa is in production since 2008 with SURFnet and Kennisnet.
Also used by...


Flexible Metadata
Element Sets
Metadata Element Sets Provided:
• Standard Dublin Core (DC)
• Qualified Dublin Core (QDC)
• Learning Object Metadata (IEEE LOM / NL LOM)
Objects are organized in assets, media files and collections.
Metadata Harvesting using OAI-PMH

CRUD REST-calls on all objects possible. i.e.:
• POST /asset/create?user=John
• GET /asset/$asset_id
• POST /mediafile/$mediafile?filename=NewName
• POST /collection/$coll_id/delete?user=John



Transcoding Services

Based on FFMPEG a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream
audio and video. It includes libavcodec - the leading audio/video codec library.



Access Management
Screening
Default: Media is accessible for everyone.
Option to set access restrictions for playing media on the
following properties:

• Domain, or group of domains:
i.e only accessible from .surfnet.nl
• Realm, or group of realms:
i.e. using SURFfederation
authentication infrastructure
• User, or group of users:
only give rights to user=john or
group "class-24"



Search Services
Simple Search:
• GET /asset?owner=John
• GET /asset?collection=7
Advanced Search using CQL level 2 :
• “(dc.title = foo OR qdc.title_alternative = bar)”
• “NOT (dc.title = foo AND dc.title = bar)”
• “^cat ^dog tree^”
http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/specs/cql.html

Support for Apache SOLR as alternative
search engine!



MediaMosa Community Website
& Online DEMO environment

http://mediamosa.org

http://demo.mediamosa.org



TECHNOLOGY SCOUTING PROJECTS... PAST & PRESENT
• Rich Media Systems Compared • Transcripting Technology
• MediaMosa Building Block for • MediaMosa RichMedia
Blackboard Application
• MediaMosa and support for • Content Supplier Application
other content
• MediaMosa and Opencast
• Full text search engines Matterhorn
• Content in the Cloud • HTML5 Video
• MediaMosa and Open API • Video Annotation

Sco uts
Technology
MediaMosa


Community Development Projects
MEDIAMOSA DRUPAL MODULES AND SDK

Dr upal 6
Drupal 7



OPEN SOURCE MULTI-SOURCE HTML5 PLAYER



MediaMosa Status & Roadmap
Available on
mediamosa.org
Release 2.3.17
Release 3.0.6
Continued Development in 2011:
Two major releases based on new Drupal 7 framework.
• MediaMosa 3.0: focusses on Open Interfaces
• MediaMosa 3.5: focusses on Transcripting Technology
(speech-2-text)

Other MediaMosa Projects 2011:
• Proof of Concepts Transcripting Technology
• Technology Scouting and POC Video Annotation
• Proof of Concepts Flexible Workﬂows
(Enhanced support for other content than audio/video)



MediaMosa 3.0
Focus on open interfaces, open standards and OpenSocial

MediaMosa OpenAPI interface:
Own interface in MediaMosa for support for
open REST calls and other related functions:
• Search
• oAuth
• oEmbed
• open upload
Open standards:
• JSON, ATOM feed
OpenSocial:
• a common API for social applications across multiple websites



New Features: Other
• PDF Support
- PDFinfo: Integrated analyzer for meta data parsing
- PDF2SWF: Converts PDF to SWF to enable to view PDF
inside website (http://www.swftools.org/)

• Image Support
- ImageMagic tool: Convert, Edit, and Compose Images
http://www.imagemagick.org/
- Exiv2: Manipulate the Exif metadata of images
http://www.exiv2.org/

• Watermarking
- Allows stills to be watermarked

• Users can now be in more than one (quota) group
- No longer 1 on 1 relation between users and groups

• Status page improvements
- More information
- Real time and cached information


Next Steps
• SURFnet funding for development ends 1-1-2012
• SURFnet is ending enduser services like SURFmedia
as of 1-1-2013

• Dutch education is looking for alternatives:
- MediaMosa in the Cloud?
- MediaMosa as a service of SURFconext?
- Using MediaMosa as an institutional service

• MediaMosa is being used by others:
- Archipel (Belgium)
- E-Campus (Norway)
- Cineca (Italy)
- Arnes (Slovenia)

• The role of the Community
becomes more and more important!



WWW
MediaMosa Directions
http://mediamosa.org

Online Demo
Q&A
http://demo.mediamosa.org
sa
MediaMo
Forum MediaMosa
http://mediamosa.org/forum
MediaMosa

Issue Tracker
http://mediamosa.org/trac

Source Code
https://github.com/mediamosa

Slideshare
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http://www.slideshare.net/MediaMosa
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Twitter s f n!
http://twitter.com/mediamosa ank t io
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