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(1) D8.7 Evaluation of LIVE system integration in other broadcast environments

This document deals with the LIVE System integration in other broadcast environments. It provides an overview on the required facilities and necessary adaptations when bringing all or only some of the LIVE components into an existing broadcast environment. Especially the option to only select some of the usage scenarios supported by the LIVE System is stressed in the report. The report concentrates on the aspects of integration that are independent from a specific broadcast environment. The findings were made during the system integration for the Olympic field trial and will be outlined in chapter 3. Afterwards the usage scenarios supported by LIVE are summarized in chapter 4 as introduction to the following sections dealing with the related requirements and adaptations. Due to the only limited number of connections and dependencies, there are only few requirements for broadcast equipment as presented in chapter 5. A special focus was laid on the consumer system, since the need for adaptations is foreseen to be much higher than for the other fields. But as LIVE already proved by integrating with three different consumer systems the efforts are predictable and reasonable. Chapter 6 concentrates on the practical requirements entailed with a use case of the LIVE System. Here the personnel as well as the technical resources are described and the work spaces with their related work flow are presented. The document is finished with chapter 7 giving a summary on the necessary adaptations.

(1) Presentation on integration work in LIVE

The following presentation is a public, shortened version of the presentation given at the review meeting in March 2007 at the ORF.

(1) D9.4 Revised Requirement Analysis

The integrated project “LIVE Staging of Media Events” (LIVE; FP6-27312) aims at the creation of novel intelligent content production methods and tools for interactive digital broadcasters to stage live media events in the area of sports, such as the 2008 Olympic Games. This report provides the revised requirements analysis based on the requirements formulated by users and based on the evaluation of the 1st prototype. The requirements outlined throughout this document give an overall view of the LIVE production support system. Some of them are already known and also stated in [LIVE D9.1]. Due to the limited amount of user tests and evaluation results, the initial requirements were mainly driven by technical issues whereas this document aims to be more users centric in the way that the results of the user tests and evaluation phase have been used to describe user scenarios of the dedicated LIVE users. The LIVE production support system comprises an overall system designed to support not only the real LIVE production of the show but also the entire life cycle of broadcasters including the preparation, production and post-processing of a show. To complete the production life cycle, post-processing of a show has been examined and is supported mainly by providing storage functionality for information created during production for later usage. The requirements analysis given in this document is mainly driven by the user scenarios outlined in chapter 3. These scenarios are mainly concerned with the different phases of the production life cycle. The scenarios are related to the distinct users dealing with the LIVE production support system. Based on the user scenarios, chapter 4 lists requirements for the entire system by concentrating on the tools to provide the required functionality to the mentioned users. As a result, a list of tools is given, which all together comprise the LIVE production support system. These tools are divided into four main groups: The first group covers tools of the so called Management Space covering the pre-production and post-processing as well as all kinds of management tasks. The remaining three groups match with the already known LIVE user spaces called the Annotation Space, the Editor Space and the Consumer Space. This chapter is to be seen as a technical reference suitable to verify the fulfilment of the requirements during the implementation phase. Chapter 5 gives a technical description of the use cases which again is used as a technical reference. The template used when creating the use cases is provided in Appendix A. Finally, chapter 6 provides a conclusion where all the raised issues are again collected and hints with respect to the architecture are given.

(1) Description of the overall implementation and integration plan (D8.1)

The document D8.1 is the first deliverable from work package 8 (Integration). While other technical work packages are about researching and developing innovative techniques for the application area, WP8 deals with the more mundane tasks of integrating those software pack-ages with each other and into an existing broadcast environment. So the work underlying this document consisted of the following tasks: isolate some attractive usage scenarios showing several of the components working in concert, coordinate the partners efforts on specifying interfaces between their respective components, study the existing target environment at the broadcasters premises and finally develop some missing glue necessary to make a first running prototype feasible as early as possible. The glue mentioned in the preceding paragraph consists of some additional “orphaned” components not included in some other work package, plus some common infrastructure (e.g. standard middleware) on which all components can be based. Both types of software packages are described in this document as well. The document describes the objectives of the prototype and summarises some of its features; the prototype's components and their internal and external interfaces, as well as how the sys-tem will be embedded into the broadcaster’s workflow and infrastructure are explained. Besides, a list of the envisaged implementation techniques and tools is given. The document ends with a presentation of the schedule for the necessary implementation steps.

(1) System modules

A scheme of modules divided by workpackages

(1) D8.3 Report on the integration of the first system prototype

This document mainly gives a detailed summary on the components of the first prototype of the LIVE production support system. It reflects the implementation and integration plan and depicts the differences to the first prototype’s current status. Results from the evaluation of the first system integration test are given as well as conclusions based on the tests.

(1) D8.2 First prototype broadcast gateway services

This document gives the background, the requirements and the usage of the software components, developed for the first prototype of the LIVE production support system. It serves as documentation to the actual deliverable D8.2, which comprises the binary files of the first prototype broadcast gateway services. The document shall mainly assist to install and to test the developed software.