EU Project LIVE: Live Staging of Media Event Wolfgang Vonolfen Dissemination & Awareness Strategy Meeting, Luxembourg 15/
Seite 2 Strategic Objectives of LIVE The central idea of Live is to create: Novel Content Production Methods Tools for Interactive Digital Broadcasters New ITV video formats and services to stage Live Media Events such as the 2008 Olympic Games.
Seite 3 Some Facts Overall-budget: 11.3 Mio. € Duration: 45 Month, Start: Instrument: IP Partners: - Fraunhofer IMK (co-ordinator) - Academy for Media Arts, Cologne - ORF - Atos Origin - School of Informatics, University of Bradford - University of Ljubljana - University of Applied Science Cologne - Salzburg Research - Sony NetServices
Seite 4 LIVE: Motivation and Overall Goals Live formats and content get more and more important for Broadcasters Broadcasters want to keep the TV consumers on their channels When the consumer wants to zap to another program he should keep on the channel of the same broadcaster Consumer should influence the content authoring (new concepts for content creation are required)
Seite 5 LIVE: Concrete Innovation and Contribution Content Innovations: New formats and services for ITV Especially for live production of television content Technical Innovations: Methods and tools for media annotation: interactive live annotation of multi-stream video show (combination of automatic and human annotation in realtime) Direct and fast linking of different media sources and streams (direct access to archive material) User preferences and behaviour will influence the authoring (intelligent feedback channel) Intelligent media objects
Seite 6 Dissemination Strategies The project is targeting the broadcast business. Project has just started. => A first draft dissemination plan is scheduled for March 2006 First integrated prototype is planned after 15 month (03/2007) => Participations to exhibitions make more sense in 2007 (e.g. IBC 2007) Real field trial at the Olympics 2008 ! Other field trials before and after the Olympics 2008