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9780470034644

Personal Content Experience Managing Digital Life in the Mobile Age

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    9780470034644

  • ISBN10:

    0470034645

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2007-05-21
  • Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
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Summary

"The authors take a fresh look at mobile content management, focusing on the consumer point of view and they supply the tools for analyzing applications, services and user interfaces targeted at personal content. Considering the full stack from software architecture to end-user needs on mobile personal content, the book highlights those features of the mobile domain that make it special in content management." "Personal Content Experience will be a guide to practitioners in mobile industry and digital content management, media-intensive application developers, content creators and distributors as well as academic researchers, and lecturers in computer science and multimedia."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Juha Lehikoinen is Principal Scientist at Nokia Research Center in Finland. For the last years he has been involved in developing GEMS (Get-Enjoy-Maintain-Share) – a framework for personal content.

Ilkka Salminen, Research Manager, Nokia Research Centre

Antti Aaltonen, Research Program Manager, Nokia Research Centre

Pertti Huuskonen, Principal Scientist, Nokia Research Centre

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Prologue
Chapter 1
Digital Us
You and This Book
Contents at a Glance
Trends Towards Mobility
The New Nomads
Five-Second Attention Span
Continuous and Nomadic Mobile Use
Mobile Device Categories
Dedicated Media Devices
Swiss Army Knives
Toolbox Devices
Accessories and Other Devices
Mobile Compromises
Teeny Weeny UIs
Because it Can!
Convergence
Wireless Revolution
Broadcast Networks
Short-Range Wireless
Case Study: Mobile Music
References
Mobile Personal Content Uncovered
First there were Files
From File Management to Content Management
Creation and Usage make Content Personal
Categorization
Characteristics of Personal Content
Content Explosion
Personal Content is Invaluable
Personal Content is Familiar . . . or Not
Favourites
Sharing and Communities
Relations and Associations
Privacy and Security Requirements
Mobile Personal Content
Mobile Personal Content is Distributed
Mobile Content is Tied to Creation and Usage Context
The Same Content Types, New Usage Patterns
Totally New Content Types, or Extended Use of Existing Content Types
New Behavioural Patterns
New Challenges
Content Wants to be Free?
GEMS, a Tool for Modelling Personal Content Experience
References
Metadata Magic
Metadata for Consumers: A Brief Introduction
Metadata Semantics
Metadata - For Managing or Enjoying?
Metadata Creation
Metadata Maintenance
Relations Give Meaning
People as First-Class Metadata
Derived Metadata
How does Metadata Benefit the User?
Tracing and Recall
Searching
Organizing: Sorting, Grouping and Filtering
Automatic Summarizing
Enhancing Privacy and Security
Constructing Views
Better Recommendations
Reusing / Remixing / Reconstructing
Smoother Transition Between Applications
Existing Approaches
MARC
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
XMP
ID3v2
Acidized Wav
DCF and EXIF
Quicktime
MPEG-7
RSS
Summary
The PCE Trinity: Mobility, Context and Metadata
File Context
Elements of Context
Context is Essential for Communication
The Challenges: Universal Metadata, Extensibility, Abuse
Yet Another Challenge: Interoperability
Personal Content Device Ecosystem
Application Interoperability
Existing Solutions for Interoperability
The Dream: When Metadata Really Works
References
Realizing a Metadata Framework
Metadata is a Solution . . . and a Problem
Challenges in Distributed Mobile Content Management
Storage
Synchronization
Version Control
Backing Up
Content Adaptation
Locating the Desired Piece of Content
Different Types of Metadata
Tags
Context Capture
Relationships
Usage History and Events
From Content Management to Metadata Management
Cross Media Challenge and Metadata Ownership
Separating Metadata from Content Binaries
Preparing for the Future
Overall Architecture
Our Metadata Ontology
Instance Metadata and the Schema
Initializing the Framework
Our Default Ontology
Namespace
Metadata Schema Objects
The Most Typical Metadata Schema Objects and Attributes
Events
Relationships
How to Handle Composite Objects
URIs for Fragments
Extending the Ontology
Making a Prototype Implementation
Metadata Engine
Managing Schemas
Why Use SQL and Especially SQLite as Persistent Storage
Harvester Manager
Context Engine
Facing Real Life
Memory Consumption
Speed
Example Usage of Metadata Engi
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