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
   

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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
   

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3. Global Information Systems Group
   Department of Computer Science
   ETH Zurich, Switzerland
   Paper++ Augmented Paper
   Transformation of positions to shapes
   document
   positions
   

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4. Global Information Systems Group
   Department of Computer Science
   ETH Zurich, Switzerland
   Paper++ Applications
   

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5. Global Information Systems Group
   Department of Computer Science
   ETH Zurich, Switzerland
   Paper++ Architecture
   

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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
   

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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
   

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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
   

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9. Global Information Systems Group
   Department of Computer Science
   ETH Zurich, Switzerland
   Paper++ Authoring Tool
   

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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
    

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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
    

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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
    

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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
    

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