Digital Media Applications

Modern societies rely heavily on digital media for fulfilling their vital functions. Digital content plays a key role in creative industries and boosts new forms of human expression based on the convergence of technology and arts.

The Digital Media Applications group (DMA) is focused on developing innovative and practicable solutions enabling organizations and people to take advantage of the fast growing amount of digital content that is available nowadays.

Research interests span several areas:

• digital asset management: developing tools and methodologies for ingesting, classifying, searching, adapting and preserving digital assets across their whole value chain;
• future television: researching new models of producing, aggregating and consuming video content;
• knowledge management: finding solutions for making information understandable and usable;
• embedded consumer: developing solutions for accessing digital media from mobile devices.

The group believes in the open-source model and has at present released the following code:

• MediaDART (http://code.google.com/p/mediadart/), a framework for resource processing that can be scaled over a cluster of computers accessing a shared storage.
• Notre-DAM (http://www.notredam.org), a web-based, multi-user digital asset management platform.
• CreaTivù (http://www.creativu.com), an application for automatically building web TV channels from user generated video clips.