CONTENT 2016, The Eighth International Conference on Creative Content Technologies: March 20-24, 2016, Rome, Italy

The Eighth International Conference on Creative Content Technologies (CONTENT 2016), held between March 20-24, 2016 in Rome, Italy, continued a series of events targeting advanced concepts, solutions and applications in producing, transmitting and managing various forms of content and their combination. Multi-cast and uni-cast content distribution, content localization, on-demand or following customer profiles are common challenges for content producers and distributors. Special processing challenges occur when dealing with social, graphic content, animation, speech, voice, image, audio, data, or image contents. Advanced producing and managing mechanisms and methodologies are now embedded in current and soon-to-be solutions

Conceptual Content Modeling and Management: The Rationale of an Asset Language

ones – are often represented by texts, images, speech or other media. Such media views are communicated through visual or audio channels and stored persistently in appropriate containers. In this paper we extend a computational content-container model into a closely coupled content-concept model intended to capture more of the meaning – and improve the value – of content. Integrated contentconcept views on entities are modeled by the notion of assets, and our asset language aims at two goals derived from extensive experiences with entity modeling: 1. Expressiveness: according to Peirce [29] and others, entity modeling – and, therefore, also asset modeling – has to cover three different perspectives: – an entity’s inherent characteristics (firstness categories); – its relationships to other entities (secondness categories); – the systematics behind the first two perspectives (thirdness categories). 2. Responsiveness: according to Cassirer [8, 47] and others, entity modeling processes, in order to be successful have to be – open, i.e., users of an asset language must be able to adapt their asset models according to the requirements of the entity at hand; – dynamic in the sense that all aspects of an asset model must be subject to inspection and adaptation at any time. Our current experiments with asset languages are motivated by the need for a better understanding and integration of content and concepts about application entities. We conclude by outlining a component-based implementation technology for open and dynamic asset systems

Conceptual content management for enterprise web services

Abstract. Web services aim at providing an interoperable framework for cross system and multiple domain communication. Current basic standards are allowing for first cases of practical use and evaluation. Since, however, the modeling of the underlying application domains is largely an open issue, web service support for cross domain applications is rather limited. This limitation is particularly severe in the area of enterprise services which could benefit substantially from well-defined semantics of multiple domains. This paper focuses on the representation of user-specific domain models and on the support of their coherent interpretation on both client and server side. Our approach is founded on the paradigm of Conceptual Content Management (CCM) and provides support for coherent model interpretation by automatically generating CCM system implementations from high-level domain model specifications. Our approach to CCM has been successfully applied in several application projects.

Conceptual Content Management for Software Engineering Processes

Abstract. A major application area of information systems technology and multimedia content management is that of support systems for engineering processes. This includes the particularly important area of software engineering. Effective support of software engineering processes requires large amounts of content (texts, diagrams, code, data, executables etc.) from different conceptual domains. The term “software crisis ” disappeared gradually when content modelling and management addressed domains from application analysis and system design in addition to the sheer computational code domain. In this paper we introduce an innovative conceptual content model and apply it in support of software engineering processes and their artefacts. We base our approach on the core model of the computational domain which abstracts computational content (bodies of function code) by the computational concept of signatures (lists of typed function parameters). We generalise this functional abstraction model beyond the computational domain by introducing the notion of asset abstraction which models entities domain-independently by general content-concept pairs. We introduce an asset language and discuss the essentials of an asset system implementation. In the application part of the paper we argue that software engineering can be substantially simplified by modelling SE entities from all the domains involved in an SE process homogeneously in an asset-oriented approach—entities ranging from application domains over intermediate architectural and design domains down to the computational domain. Furthermore, we discuss how the mappings between such domains can be substantially supported by services based on asset-oriented information systems

Active Learning by Personalization - Lessons Learnt from Research in Conceptual Content Management

In this paper we argue that the potential of e-learning systems for active and autonomous knowledge acquisition and use can be substantially enhanced by exploiting the personalization capabilities of concept-oriented content management. Content and implementation personalization are essential services provided by research-oriented content management systems. Personalized concept understanding as well as concept-oriented content acquisition and use are key to most learning situations. Therefore, learning and research systems should cooperate with the common goal of exchanging and sharing content and enabling processes which transparently span system boundaries. In this paper, we discuss how personalization can be used to enhance both, autonomous learning activities and research-oriented work ows. Personalization and content coupling technologies are at the heart of one of our operational web-based application systems, the Warburg Electronic Library. This system is successfully used in a number of research as well as learning projects, during which advantages of joint research and learning systems have been identified

Open and Dynamic Schema Evolution in Content-Intensive Web Applications

Abstract: Modern information systems development is a complex task for it must fulfill a large variety of applicationand architecture-oriented requirements. Furthermore, such requirements often are a moving target for the developer, not only because the system has to stay open to a constantly changing application domain, but also because new requirements are added during the extremely long lifetime of such information systems. To make things worse, modern information systems are operated in a 24x7-modus which generates the pressure of highly dynamic, almost online system evolution. A main source of problems such development projects struggle with originates from the lack of a systematic subdivision of large software systems into manageable modules. As a consequence developers are traditionally involved in a complex patchwork of manual efforts to keep the various parts of the system in sync with each other and with the system’s requirements. In this paper we outline our approach to information system development which is based on a model for Conceptual Content Management (CCM). Our CCM approach profits from the dynamic, model-driven generation of smaller modules, which can be combined automatically into the full system. The generation process uses a CCM model of the application domain(s) from which our compiler framework dynamically generates the schema-dependent parts of the system. Due to the dynamic nature of this generation process, we are able to provide adequate support for both schema evolution and personalization of such a system. We have successfully employed the CCM approach to the development of complex web information systems. We give a brief account of CCM development and present an application example.