Digital asset management data model

• US 20080109482A1
• Filed: 02/14/2007
• Published: 05/08/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited (Accenture PLC)
• Original Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited (Accenture PLC)
• Inventors: Haffar, Karim El, Macchletti, Alessandra
• Granted Patent: US 8,996,589 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/104.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/164 File meta data generation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/21 Design, administration or maintenance of databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/48 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually

Abstract

A digital asset management system effectively provides full control of compound media assets and their specific components. The digital asset management data model supports the creation and management of multiple levels of granularity or metadata enrichment, and different sets of file types or renditions used throughout the digital asset processing life-cycle. The extensible digital asset management data model allows telecommunications service providers to augment or enrich compound media asset metadata, and thereby, optimize the relationship between media assets, and enhance storage and retrieval functionalities. The digital asset management system solves the technical problems arising from ingesting, storing, and managing rich media assets economically and efficiently.

Claims

1. A digital asset management system comprising:

a communication interface;

a digital asset management database comprising;

an asset description hierarchy comprising asset description objects comprising attributes relating a media asset to corresponding asset data and asset metadata;

a compound media asset type description hierarchy comprising compound media asset type description objects comprising metadata attributes that associate compound media types to the media asset;

a compound media asset type file hierarchy comprising compound media asset type file objects comprising;

asset data attributes and asset metadata attributes that associate a media asset data file to compound media types; and

media asset files comprising physical data representations of renderings associated with compound media types;

a memory comprising;

an ingestion program operable to;

obtain the asset data and the asset metadata for the media asset through the communication interface;

ingest the asset data and the asset metadata by;

normalizing the asset data and asset metadata with respect to a defined object format by populating;

 

the asset description objects;

 

at least one of the compound media asset type description objects; and

 

at least one of the compound media asset type file objects; and

enriching the asset metadata by augmenting the asset data and asset metadata with additional asset data and additional asset metadata not originally obtained for the media asset;

a processor coupled to the communication interface, database and the memory, and operable to execute the ingestion program.

2. The digital asset management system of claim 1, comprising:

a one-to-many relationship between a selected asset description object and a selected compound media asset type description object; and

a many-to-many relationship between a selected compound media asset type file object and the selected compound media asset type description object.

3. The digital asset management system of claim 1, where the asset description hierarchy comprises:

a media asset package description object comprising asset data and metadata;

a channel description object comprising asset source information;

an electronic program guide object comprising enhanced functionality metadata; and

an exceptions object comprising asset metadata exceptions identified while ingesting, storing and managing the asset.

4. The digital asset management system of claim 1, where the compound media asset type description hierarchy comprises:

a movie description object comprising metadata relating a movie to the asset;

a trailer description object comprising metadata relating a trailer to the asset;

a cover description object comprising metadata relating a cover to the asset;

an audio description object comprising metadata relating audio to the asset; and

an abstract compound media asset type object comprising metadata relating other compound media asset types to the asset.

5. The digital asset management system of claim 1, where the compound media asset type file hierarchy comprises:

a movie file object comprising;

metadata defining a movie file associated with the asset, the movie file comprising a physical data representation of a rendering associated with the media asset;

a trailer file object comprising;

metadata defining a trailer file associated with the asset, the trailer file comprising a physical data representation of a rendering associated with the media asset;

a cover file object comprising;

metadata defining a cover file associated with the asset, the cover file comprising the physical data representation of a rendering associated with the asset; and

an audio file object comprising;

metadata defining a audio file associated with the asset, the audio file comprising the physical data representation of a rendering associated with the asset.

6. The digital asset management system of claim 1, where the compound media asset type file hierarchy comprises:

an abstract compound media asset type file object comprising;

metadata defining other file types associated with the media asset, the abstract file-type file comprising the physical data representation of a rendering associated with the media asset.

7. The digital asset management system of claim 1, where the memory further comprises a media management program operable to:

edit and repurpose the media asset by;

updating the media asset metadata; and

creating an asset rendition from the asset data and metadata;

publish an asset rendition of the media asset by;

creating an asset bundle comprising the asset rendition;

associating the asset bundle with a delivery channel by;

identifying a delivery channel and delivery platform; and

formatting the asset bundle for delivery to a delivery platform; and

scheduling and deploying the asset bundle to the delivery platform, and where;

the processor is operable to execute the media management program.

8. The digital asset management system of claim 7, where the media management program is further operable to:

search the digital asset management database, and retrieve asset data and metadata based on user selection criteria; and

administer the digital asset management system by provisioning a media asset source, and where;

the processor is operable to execute the media management program.

9. The digital asset management system of claim 1, where the ingestion program is further operable to enrich the asset metadata by:

defining unique media asset data and media asset metadata not originally associated with the media asset; and

defining unique combinations of compound media asset type description objects and compound media asset type file objects not originally associated with the media asset.

10. The digital asset management system of claim 1, where the memory further comprises search, storage, and retrieval optimized combinations of compound media asset type description objects and compound media asset type file objects.

11. A computer implemented method of ingesting a media asset, the method comprising:

defining a digital asset management database comprising;

defining an asset description hierarchy comprising asset description objects comprising attributes relating a media asset to corresponding asset data and asset metadata;

defining a compound media asset type description hierarchy comprising compound media asset type description objects comprising metadata attributes that associate compound media types to the media asset;

defining a compound media asset type file hierarchy comprising compound media asset type file objects comprising;

asset data attributes and asset metadata attributes that associate a media asset data file to compound media types; and

media asset files comprising physical data representations of renderings associated with compound media types;

obtaining the asset data and the asset metadata for a media asset through the communication interface;

ingesting the asset data and the asset metadata by;

normalizing the asset data and asset metadata with respect to a defined object format by populating;

the asset description objects;

at least one of the compound media asset type description objects; and

at least one of the compound media asset type file objects; and

defining unique media asset data and media asset metadata not originally associated with the media asset; and

defining unique combinations of compound media asset type description objects and compound media asset type file objects not originally associated with the media asset; and

editing and repurposing the media asset by;

updating the media asset metadata; and

creating an asset rendition from the asset data and metadata;

publishing an asset rendition of the media asset by;

creating an asset bundle comprising the asset rendition;

associating the asset bundle with a delivery channel by;

identifying a delivery channel and delivery platform; and

formatting the asset bundle for delivery to a delivery platform; and

scheduling and deploying the asset bundle to the delivery platform; and

searching the digital asset management database, and retrieving asset data and metadata based on user selection criteria; and

provisioning a media asset source.

12. The method according to claim 11, further comprising:

defining a one-to-many relationship between a selected asset description object and a selected compound media asset type description object; and

defining a many-to-many relationship between a selected compound media asset type file object and the selected compound media asset type description object.

13. The method according to claim 11, where defining an asset description hierarchy comprises:

establishing a media asset package description object comprising asset data and metadata;

establishing a channel description object comprising asset source information;

establishing an electronic program guide object comprising enhanced functionality metadata; and

establishing an exceptions object comprising asset metadata exceptions identified while acquiring, ingesting, storing, publishing and managing the asset.

14. The method according to claim 11, where defining a compound media asset type description hierarchy comprises:

establishing a movie description object comprising metadata relating a movie to a media asset;

establishing a trailer description object comprising metadata relating a trailer to a media asset;

establishing a cover description object comprising metadata relating a cover to a media asset;

establishing an audio description object comprising metadata relating audio to a media asset; and

establishing an abstract compound media asset type object comprising metadata relating other compound media asset types to a media asset.

15. The method according to claim 11, where defining a compound media asset type file hierarchy comprises:

establishing a movie file object comprising;

metadata defining a movie file associated with a media asset, the movie file comprising a physical data representation of a rendering associated with the media asset;

establishing a trailer file object comprising;

metadata defining a trailer file associated with a media asset, the trailer file comprising a physical data representation of a rendering associated with the media asset;

establishing a cover file object comprising;

metadata defining a cover file associated with a media asset, the cover file comprising the physical data representation of a rendering associated with the asset;

establishing an audio file object comprising;

metadata defining a audio file associated with a media asset, the audio file comprising the physical data representation of a rendering associated with the asset; and

establishing an abstract compound media asset type file object comprising;

metadata defining other file types associated with the media asset, the abstract file-type file comprising the physical data representation of a rendering associated with the media asset.

16. A product comprising:

a machine readable medium; and

instructions encoded on the medium which cause a data processing system to perform a method comprising;

defining a digital asset management database comprising;

defining an asset description hierarchy comprising asset description objects comprising attributes relating a media asset to corresponding media asset data and media asset metadata;

defining a compound media asset type description hierarchy comprising compound media asset type description objects comprising metadata attributes that associate compound media types to a media asset;

defining a compound media asset type file hierarchy comprising compound media asset type file objects comprising;

media asset data attributes and media asset metadata attributes that associate a media asset data file to compound media types; and

media asset files comprising physical data representations of renderings associated with compound media types;

performing for a selected media asset the following steps;

obtaining media asset data and media asset metadata for the media asset through a communication interface;

ingesting the media asset data and media asset metadata by;

normalizing the media asset data and media asset metadata with respect to a defined object format by populating;

the asset description objects;

at least one of the compound media asset type description objects; and

at least one of the compound media asset type file objects; and

defining unique media asset data and media asset metadata not originally associated with the media asset; and

defining unique combinations of compound media asset type description objects and compound media asset type file objects not originally associated with the media asset; and

editing and repurposing a media asset by;

updating the media asset metadata; and

creating an asset rendition from the asset data and metadata;

publishing an asset rendition of a media asset by;

creating an asset bundle comprising the asset rendition;

associating the asset bundle with a delivery channel by;

identifying a delivery channel and delivery platform; and

formatting the asset bundle for delivery to a delivery platform; and

scheduling and deploying the asset bundle to the delivery platform; and

searching the digital asset management database, and retrieving asset data and metadata based on user selection criteria; and

provisioning a media asset source.

17. The product of claim 16, further comprising:

defining a one-to-many relationship is defined between a selected asset description object and a selected compound media asset type description object; and

defining a many-to-many relationship is defined between a selected compound media asset type file object and the selected compound media asset type description object.

18. The product of claim 16, where defining an asset description hierarchy comprises:

establishing a media asset package description object comprising asset data and metadata;

establishing a channel description object comprising asset source information;

establishing an electronic program guide object comprising enhanced functionality metadata; and

establishing an exceptions object comprising asset metadata exceptions identified while acquiring, ingesting, storing, publishing and managing.

19. The product of claim 16, where defining a compound media asset type description hierarchy comprises:

establishing a movie description object comprising metadata relating a movie to the asset;

establishing a trailer description object comprising metadata relating a trailer to the asset;

establishing a cover description object comprising metadata relating a cover to the asset;

establishing an audio description object comprising metadata relating audio to the asset; and

establishing an abstract compound media asset type object comprising metadata relating other compound media asset types to the asset.

20. The product of claim 16, where defining a compound media asset type file hierarchy comprises:

establishing a movie file object comprising;

metadata defining a movie file associated with the asset, the movie file comprising a physical data representation of a rendering associated with the media asset;

establishing a trailer file object comprising;

metadata defining a trailer file associated with the asset, the trailer file comprising a physical data representation of a rendering associated with the media asset;

establishing a cover file object comprising;

metadata defining a cover file associated with the asset, the cover file comprising the physical data representation of a rendering associated with the asset;

establishing an audio file object comprising;

metadata defining a audio file associated with the asset, the audio file comprising the physical data representation of a rendering associated with the asset; and

establishing an abstract compound media asset type file object comprising;

metadata defining other file types associated with the media asset, the abstract file-type file comprising the physical data representation of a rendering associated with the media asset.