Issues & Approach in Defining a European Research Agenda on Information Systems and Management in Creative eMedia Industries

According Gartner, media industries are the third largest spender in IT infrastructure, software, and hardware after banking and manufacturing industries. Newcomers in media industries utilize latest technologies to produce, manage, and distribute their content in a way the consumer would like to enjoy digital content with their rich new content offerings. Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google are just the prime examples for companies attracting many new consumers with their innovative content offerings. Their IT infrastructures are centred on the management of digital content throughout their software solutions to manage digital rights, apply data mining, or their customer relationship management software. Within the scope of this position paper the challenge is to pinpoint to the importance of defining a research agenda on information systems and management in creative media industries, to create a holistic vision of eMedia industries in total – from traditional towards fully digital media industries

The ENTHRONE 2 metadata management tool (MATool) (WISE 2008 MATool Demonstration)

There are many metadata standards, and many more are to emerge - and many more metadata systems have to deal with. To cope with the challenge of the management of metadata generated and various sources, in many arbitrary formats, and for different purposes, a metadata management solution is required. This research work describes the MATool, as metadata management tool developed within the IST IP ENTHRONE 2. The tool provides metadata aggregation, metadata collection, and metadata conversion capabilities in the context of end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) integrated management system for audio-visual services. The live demonstrator of the MATool were available at WISE 2008. © 2008 IEEE