An integrated framework for automating content enrichment, packaging and distribution with DRM support

Content enrichment is one of the most expensive activities related to the integration and augmentation of information of content elements. This activity is typically performed for cultural and educational content and recently also for edutainment and infotainment. AXMEDIS Framework aims at providing technical solutions and tools for reducing costs by automating content production, protection and distribution, thus supporting activities of content enrichment. The AXMEDIS solution is based on GRID technology and provides an efficient management of content processing and finalization as well as for dynamic service discovery and composition, distributed resource management and adaptive media delivery. AXMEDIS is a large IST FP6 Integrated Project of Research and Development, in which a set of enabling technologies are developed to cope with the above mentioned problems.