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## The RIAM/Cap Digital Cine Lab project

This Prospective Research Project tackles two key actions of the call: Structured media management and mobility. Its goal is to design and experiment with a system for film annotation, production of film metadata and editorial materials, by using innovative tools for audio comments recordings, photo and video catch-up and typed texts, on various media including mobile devices. Annotations should remain independent from the commented film in order to be freely shared over networks, so that any user can get them and synchronize them with the film in its integrity on any format (DVD, video file, streamed video). Annotations will be produced following independent ontologies and description schemes and will be shared using latest XML Web 2.0 recommendations.

Project objectives targets:

- Semantic schemes modeling relevant to cinema but generic in this field
- Description, annotation and rendering tools
- Multimodal annotation interfaces
- Annotation sharing in a community-based editorial context.

Project impact is expected on 4 applications :

- Editorial production and film critics: annotation tools and multi-support publishing
- Education: tools for annotation, courses and tutorials
- Libraries and film archives: LAN based and Internet based system for AV annotation and sharing
- Mobility: Multimedia Audio guides, PDA & mobiles adapted for recording and synchronization, Portable DVD & Laptop extended for navigation and annotation.

Project presentation file

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