MediaMosa as a Mass-storage Solution - 11 december 2013, Brussels

The Challenge of Mass-storage

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The MediaMosa Foundation  
 
MediaMosa as a Mass-storage Solution

Lecture Capture Workshop-11 December 2013 AGORA Learning Centre, KU Leuven, Belgium

About SURFnet
• Development and exploitation of
- the Dutch National Network for  
Higher Education and Research
- innovative ICT platforms & services
- Over 14,000 km dark ﬁber 
 
 

• By and for the Dutch Higher
Education and Research
community
- 180+ connected organisations,  
serving 1 million users
- Not for proﬁt, 86 employees
- In business since 1988  
25th Anniversary!


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SURFnet’s history of streaming activities

1998

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2003
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2005
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2007

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Audio & Video hosting service (FTP) - 1st gen.
SURFnet Video Portal (SVP) - 2nd gen.
SURFnet-TV Live Netcasting
Start new generation video services - 3rd gen. 
SURFnet/Kennisnet innovation program

 

2007:  
Start of open source based innovation

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SURFmedia (2007) 
VP-X Project (2007)
VP-Core Platform (2008)
MediaMosa Software (2009)


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Introducing MediaMosa


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Digital Asset Management System

Store
Prepare
Retrieve
Share

 
Any Digital Asset


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Store
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Store Any Digital Asset 

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Describe asset using
Metadata Standards 
existing standards or custom sets 

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Access Control to Protect
Private Assets 

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Upload, Ingest, Harvest,
SFTP, ...


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Prepare
‣ Transcode video / audio / images 
Mobile compatible, high/low quality, … 

‣ Analyse files 
Create Still, Speech2text, OCR, … 

‣ Index files and metadata 
Full-text, read technical metadata (id3, exif, ...)

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Retrieve
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CQL  
Contextual Query Language 
A formal language for representing
queries to information retrieval systems

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Apache SOLR for indexing  
and searching


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Share / Play
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Authenticate Play Requests 

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Serve Complete Player or Files 

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Stream over HTTP progressive
download 
Or add a streaming server to your setup 

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Combine Multiple files per assets
for advanced functionality 

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OAI-PMH provisioning

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REST based SOA

✓ Flexibility by combining components
✓ Open source and using open source components
✓ Scalable for future expansion

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Open & Public from the start


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A growing community


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Transcription Technology Project
Web lecture
recording
App
Transcription
by Spraak

•  Recording of Teacher
•  Recording of Slides
•  Reference material

MediaMosa

Multi-Source
Player

•  Recognize the Speech •  Transcode into audio •  Enhanced Search
•  Store all into an asset •  Optional Subtitles
•  Produce time-coded
•  Mashup info
Transcript
•  CMU Sphinx for English


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Time Coded Transcript


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The Challenge of Mass-Storage
‣ Cost considerations 
‣ Indexing and Searching options 
‣ Open standards and formats 
‣ Migration paths 
‣ Scalability 
‣ Long term storage for archival
purposes 
‣ Accessibility 
‣ Sharing and access control

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MediaMosa Storage Solutions
‣ Hosted on Open Source stack
‣ Storage on both Open Source
and commercial solutions
‣ Use any storage mount points
‣ Build Petabyte scale solutions
using Ceph, Glustre, MooseFS
etc.
‣ Use cloud provided solutions like
Amazon S3

Or use MediaMosa-as-a-Service:  
MediaSalsa http://www.mediasalsa.eu


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Some Use Cases

‣ Video websites 
Specific topics, freemium model 

‣ MOOCs & e-Learning 
Build your own or integrate with existing
tools 

‣ Centralised media repository 
Create once, publish everywhere 

‣ Archival 
Well described data on flexible storage
mount points

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Open Source is....


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Open Source is....

“The realisation of an  
open source
project does not guarantee
the creation  
of a community”


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Why a foundation?


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Founded!


January 8th 2013

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MediaMosa Foundation - Core Activities


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Foundation Governance


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Call to Action
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Join the community
Talk to us
Will do BoF sessions to go into speciﬁcs
Contribute
Become a sponsor
Use MediaMosa and tell us about it
Have fun

http://foundation.mediamosa.org
<board@mediamosa.org>

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MediaMosa Directions and Q&A

WWW
http://mediamosa.org
http://foundation.mediamosa.org

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Twitter
http://twitter.com/mediamosa

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Online Demo
http://demo.mediamosa.org 
Source Code
https://github.com/mediamosa

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Slideshare
http://www.slideshare.net/mediamosa


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For a  
sustainable  
future...

Frans.Ward@surfnet.nl

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