The Intelligent Media Framework provides the knowledge infrastructure for the LIVE production support system and is based on a 3-tier service-oriented architecture in which all interfaces to external components are modelled as Web services (see Figure below): The Knowledge Service of the IMF provides access to the vocabularies and terms of the controlled vocabulary. The Event Information Service provides access to information specific to the staged event. This service provides knowledge about an event such as date, location and participants. Additionally, knowledge about agents and performed activities are accessible through this service during/after the event. The Staging Information Service is counterpart of the Event Information Service for the staging domain. The IMA Service provides access to Intelligent Media Assets which bundle metadata about (parts of) content items together. The service therefore supports knowledge-based queries for available content.