A Framework for Cross-media Information Management

Presentation given at EuroIMSA 2005, International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications. Grindelwald, Switzerland.

ABSTRACT: Nowadays a user's personal information space is fragmented into multiple repositories on their local machine as well as on remote servers. In order to enable later access to resources managed within such a cross-media information space, information has to be organised in a format that can be processed by automatic retrieval processes. We propose a general framework for personal information management based on extending a cross-media link server with supplemental metadata functionality. In addition to user generated information, our solution automatically derives metadata for classifying and associating resources based on direct interaction with the information space. Resources and metadata can be integrated by referencing external resources or information may be managed directly by the framework. The presented cross-media information management solution is not limited to a fixed set of predefined resources and can be extended based on a resource plug-in mechanism.

Research paper: https://beatsigner.com/publications/a-framework-for-cross-media-information-management.pdf

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1. Global Information Systems Group Department of Computer Science ETH Zurich, Switzerland A Framework for Cross-Media Information Management Beat Signer Moira C. Norrie Global Information Systems Research Group ETH Zurich Switzerland EuroIMSA 2005, February 23, 2005
2. Global Information Systems Group Department of Computer Science ETH Zurich, Switzerland Outline Motivation iServer cross-media information management Resource plug-ins Cross-media authoring Information sharing
3. Global Information Systems Group Department of Computer Science ETH Zurich, Switzerland Paper++ Augmented Paper Transformation of positions to shapes document positions
4. Global Information Systems Group Department of Computer Science ETH Zurich, Switzerland Paper++ Applications
5. Global Information Systems Group Department of Computer Science ETH Zurich, Switzerland Paper++ Architecture
6. Global Information Systems Group Department of Computer Science ETH Zurich, Switzerland iServer Cross-Media Platform Paper++ Shape Page Application Database DB Object Data/Metadata Query Movie Clips Time Span / Spatial Info Movie Clip HTML Documents XPointer XHTML Document Selectors Entities Resources link
7. Global Information Systems Group Department of Computer Science ETH Zurich, Switzerland iServer Concepts layer |Layers| layer Active Layers resource Containers textComp Texts medium Media medium Movies medium Images medium Webpages OnLayer Contains (1,1) (1,1) (0,*) (0,*) Paper ++ document Documents (0,*) shape Shapes partition (2,*) (0,*) rectangle Rectangles ellipse Ellipses polygon Polygons circle Circles complexShape Complex Shapes HasShapes page Pages OnPage Contains Pages (0,*) (1,1) (1,1) (0,*) Resources parameter Preferences link Links user Users group Groups individual Individuals HasMembers HasTarget (0,*) (0,*) (0,*) (0,*) (0,*) (0,*) (0,*) (1,*) (0,*) (0,*) (1,1) (0,*) partition partition (1,*) CreatedBy RefersTo Has Preferences parameter Properties selector Selectors resource Resources HasSource (0,*) AccessibleTo InaccessibleTo (0,*) (0,*) entity Entities HasProperties Users Plug-ins Links (0,*) Layers
8. Global Information Systems Group Department of Computer Science ETH Zurich, Switzerland XHTML Plug-in Link DB XHTML Plug-in Web Client World Wide Web Proxy Server HTTP Request Response HTTP Request Original Response Link Data
9. Global Information Systems Group Department of Computer Science ETH Zurich, Switzerland Paper++ Authoring Tool
10. Global Information Systems Group Department of Computer Science ETH Zurich, Switzerland iServer Authoring Tool Extensible iServer authoring tool provides handling of core iServer concepts (layers, user management, ...) resource plug-ins to define the selectors XML Import Integration of existing publishing tools via iServer XML import
11. Global Information Systems Group Department of Computer Science ETH Zurich, Switzerland iServer Interfaces Java API XML import and export Web interface based on XML and XSLT XHTML WAP, i-mode VoiceXML Web Service
12. Global Information Systems Group Department of Computer Science ETH Zurich, Switzerland Information Sharing Each user should become an author of his personal information a publisher for the community Decentralised P2P network of iServers Filters to "ensure" information quality frequency count user confidence values Combine preauthored and personal information
13. Global Information Systems Group Department of Computer Science ETH Zurich, Switzerland Conclusion Flexible platform for cross-media information management resource plug-ins Integration of digital and physical information digitally augmented physical objects physically augmented digital objects digitally augmented digital objects physically augmented physical objects Collaborative authoring