MediaMosa is the open source media content management system developed by SURFnet, Kennisnet and Madcap and is used on their VP-Core platform to deliver video services to their users. The VP-Core video platform was implemented using MediaMosa. This technology scouting investigates which adaptations are required in MediaMosa to also be able to store and process media other than video.  

MediaMosa is a platform that can be used by end-user applications (EUA) to store and play video files. MediaMosa is ‘invisible’ to the end-user of these applications.  

If MediaMosa were to support other types of content than video, an EUA could add new functionality for end-users. An example is making available a biography of the actor and the spoken text (in text format) for a video fragment.  

This report proposes a number of adaptations and extensions to add support for content types other than video to MediaMosa. Most of these adaptations or extensions were included in the original design of MediaMosa, but have not, or only partially, been implemented. 

The required adaptations and extensions are:

• Replacing the current processing by a configurable workflow;
• Dividing the processing into two separate workflows: an analysis and a core workflow;
• Allowing the EUA to use the REST interface to manage the configuration of the core workflow;
• Extending the metadata store with a record for each media file that holds the data that are generated by the analysis. 

Moreover this technology scouting provides an initial sketch of the design of the analysis workflow by categorising media types into groups and identifying a toolset for each of these groups. 

A first logical step would be to extend and configure MediaMosa to process images and audio files (in addition to video content). This extension is a logical functional extension of the current implementation in VP-Core. Moreover, suitable tools have been identified for analysing and processing these content types. A more far-reaching study may identify a set of tools to cover the analysis and processing in MediaMosa for the other types.