Mediaflux™ Digital Asset Management provides a comprehensive platform of services for rapidly developing and deploying applications to create, manipulate and manage digital assets in single user or collaborative environments. Mediaflux™ combines a multi-versioned asset management and revision control system with workflow and web-serving into a single package that is simple to install, operate and administer.

Mediaflux™ has been designed and built by people with practical experience managing digital media assets in film, television, science and technology.

Return on Investment

Mediaflux™ eliminates the need to develop most application independent infrastructure allowing resources to be concentrated on application specific aspects such as business logic and user interfaces instead.

All digital asset management applications, whether they are desktop or web-based, can be unified on a common platform, maximizing reuse and interoperability. Industry standards, such as XML and HTTP enable business to business integration and exchange. Mediaflux™ supports the integration of legacy applications ensuring common interfaces to all digital assets without needing to discard current applications.

Mediaflux™ Asset Services

Mediaflux™ provides a comprehensive set of asset management services for:

• Creating versioned and non-versioned assets with (or without) content and metadata and controlled authoring using check-in/check-out and locking.
• Attaching arbitrary metadata to any asset - unlike traditional storage systems, metadata may be incrementally updated and refined over time allowing assets to be easily re-purposed.
• Creating any number of dictionaries of terms (and term relationships such as synonym, misspelling, etc.) for maintaining the integrity of metadata, spell checking and allowing people to find what they are looking for (even if they cannot spell).
• Creating any number of hierarchical classification schemes.
• Establishing arbitrary types of relationships between assets.
• Creating arbitrary views of assets for different application and web-portals.
• Creating arbitrary labels for asset versions. When combined with views, labels provide a simple, yet powerful, mechanism for publishing assets.
• Simple and advanced searching/queries.
• Event based triggers.
• Extensible types of data storage systems/devices.
• Automatic metadata extraction from asset content (images, MPEG video, documents, etc). Supported file types are extensible.
• Automatic proxy generation for images. The proxy generation framework is extensible to cater for other types of assets.
• Extensible transcoding framework.
• Users, groups and access control on services, documents, and other entities.

Mediaflux™ automation Services

Business processes can be captured automated using Mediaflux™ process automation services.

Mediaflux™ automation service include:

• Parallel and conditional branching, timeouts, e-mail, process libraries, sub-processes, dynamic resource allocation, etc.
• Prioritized task lists.
• Collection and analysis of execution statistics for process monitoring and re-engineering.
• Process definitions are assets allowing complete control over publication times and portals.

DICOM Support

Mediaflux™ includes an embedded DICOM server supporting the DICOM Store SCP protocol. This allows any DICOM data (e.g. MRI, CT, PET, etc.) to be directly ingested from any DICOM compliant client/scanner/etc. - Mediaflux™ will create assets using the DICOM patient/study/series object model. DICOM data is then available for research or other purposes using the rich set of Mediaflux™ capabilities.

Web-Content Management

The Mediaflux™ server is also a web-server that enables the creation and management of web-portals. In addition to controlling and publishing web-based content using the powerful asset management features, Mediaflux™ has web-specific features:

• Virtual web-sites, access control and URL mapping.
• Simple template based page generation. Templates may be URL and/or page type specific.
• Compound templates, enabling common web components to be reused across may pages.
• Dynamic content generation using XML/XSL/XSLT.
• Web-site, URL and context sensitive interfaces for the same underlying data.
• Support for HTTP and HTTPS

Federation & Replication

Mediaflux™ can be configured to federate autonomous repositories, enabling data collaboration between different organizations/institutions/groups. Federation allows distributed queries and asset retrieval and/or replication. Replication can be configured for uni- or bi-directional replication of metadata and/or content between one or more peers based on arbitrary queries.

In addition, replication can be used to establish redundancy in the event of a disaster at one or more sites.

Standards Based

Mediaflux™ services, metadata and content can be accessed via industry standard protocols including HTTP, HTTPS, TCP/IP, WEBDAV and SOAP. XML metadata can be converted to any other format using the in-built XSLT processor. Scripting uses Tcl or BeanShell.

MULTI-Platform support

Mediaflux™ can be deployed on laptops, desktops and enterprise class servers using Unix, Linux, Windows 2000/2003/XP or Mac OS X operating systems.