Frameworks For Digital Media

After the memorable achievement of the PD 1.0 specification, I tried hard to convince SDMI people that the group should work on developing interoperable specifications that included specific technologies beyond the screening ones, or the entire initiative would be meaningless. My efforts were in vain and, at the Los Angeles…

Part 1 of the MPEG-21 standard has the title “Vision, Technologies and Strategy“. It is not a standard but a Technical Report because it contains a description of part of the content of MPEG-21. Digital Item Declaration (DID) is part 2. This normative part defines the technology supporting DIs. The…

By 2003 the MPEG-21 project that I had kicked off three years before in MPEG, as a result of my failure to convince SDMI to move to technology specification after their successful achievement of the Portable Device specification, was in full swing. Still I could already see that no matter…

The IDP specification is a set of 9 Approved Documents (AD), DMP lingo for specifications, addressing many, though not all yet, of the areas envisaged by the Digital Media Manifesto. Title Description Value-Chain Functions and Requirements A collection of Primitive Functions derived from today’s media value-chains with corresponding Requirements. Architecture…

Open Media Marketplace In 2008 DMP began discussions on Open Media Marketplace (OMM), an environment where Users perform actions on Entities using Services provided by Service Providers. The following subset of OMM requirements should indicate where OMM would lead. OMM shall enable the provisioning of interoperable Services between OMM Users…

At the end of May 2005 I was invited to make a speech at an internal school of Mediaset (the main private broadcaster in Italy) in Cologno Monzese, near Milan. On that occasion I met Juan Carlos De Martin of the Polytechnic of Turin and Massimo Travostino, an attorney specialising…