MEDIA MINING SERVER Increasing volume of multimedia data require means for storage and easy access to information. The Media Mining Server turns your audio library from a collection into a tool.

• Users can choose from a selection of User Interface, Search Query and Output Language options. You could have an English Interface and search through Arabic news broadcasts by entering your query in French
• Summarization of folder content by keyword gives users a composite view of episodes
• Search query is language independent; a search for money in different language channels will return instances of "money" in English, "Geld" in German etc. One can search for information in a foreign language channel without even knowing the language
• The Episode Management Center facilitates removal and addition of broadcasted programs
• High Scope of scalability based on number of users and volume of processed information
• Full text search capability makes searching through multimedia data very simple
• Search focus can be tuned on the basis of structured text fields, such as names of organizations, locations, speakers and topics

HARDWARE PREREQUISITES

The Media Mining Server does not require any specific hardware. Like any Media Asset Management software, the hardware requirements are mostly determined by the requirements for storing media files, associated metadata and the requirement to achieve response time during periods of peak load.

Media Mining software typically operates on the following hardware:

• Intel Server Processor 5000 series
  (Quad Core minimum; Dual Quad Core recommended)
• 64 GB memory minimum (128 GB recommended)
• RAID-10 disk array, 4 x 500 GB

The disk storage requirements can be estimated as follows: one hour of video encoded at Dual ISDN bandwidth (128 kbit/s) takes approx. 120 MB. The associated metadata requires approx. 250 kB of storage. 200 GB of disk space hold approximately 200GB / 120MB = 1660 hrs of video. We assume that we need some buffer for disk administration and that the database needs approx. 10% of the size of the media for storing the transcript and metadata, so this gives us a net space for approx. 1600 hrs of content.

REQUIRED SOFTWARE FOR MEDIA MINING SERVER

The following software is prerequisite for installation of Media Mining Server. It must be installed on the server machine before Media Mining Server is installed on the server machine. 

• Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition (64 bit) - Dual Quad Core
• Oracle 11g Enterprise Edition
• Java 2 SDK version 1.6.10 (can be found on the Media Mining Server installation CD or downloaded from java.sun.com)

REQUIRED SOFTWARE FOR THE WEB APPLICATION

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 or later

The following software is required on client machines in order to run the Media Mining Server's Web Application. 

The Episode Management Center (EMC) is an administrative utility, which is installed with Media Mining Server. You can use the EMC to copy episodes from one server to another server, and to remove episodes from a server. Also, with the EMC you can alter meta-info. This means that you can edit:

• Programs, Channels: on a per episode basis in the Time View of the EMC
• Episodes: in the Time View

Stories cannot be edited at this level.

The Management Console is a utility of Media Mining Server that provides a system administration function for the setting of user and access rights. With the MC you can:

• Add user with name and password
• Change password
• Add/remove channel from access list
• Add/remove episode from access list
• View and change user settings