IS&T, Las Vegas, Feb. 9, 2004 GLOBAL ART ON DEMAND INITIATIVE by: Andrea de Polo, C. Lahanier, Alain Minodier, Jacques Misselis, Patrice Giraud Copyright.

IS&T, Las Vegas, Feb. 9, 2004

GLOBAL ART ON DEMAND INITIATIVE

by: Andrea de Polo, C. Lahanier, Alain Minodier, Jacques Misselis, Patrice

Giraud

Copyright GOAD 2004

Summary

• Art Content today: open issues and possible solutions

• GOAD (Global Art on Demand initiative) overview

• GOAD workflow• GOAD benefits for the community• Kiosks experiences and few installation samples• What’s next?• Q&A

Global Art on Demand

Sharing Art Digital Contents

If you give me one image and I give you one…

… we have two images

Art Contents Issues

• Art Content is everywhere and around us,• A huge volume of text + images on the web…,• Cumbersome and superficial searches,• Text + Images must be often associated,• Images must be visible, printable and protected,• Issues of trust, security, DRMS• Delivery mechanism (online vs. Offline)

Art Contents Focus

• Large printing format

• Art Index

Art Contents in Education

• Researchers and Educators users need to find, learn, (publish) and share content quickly and properly,

• Academic work, courseware, passion, needs efficient and economical driven digital contents access and publishing tools,

All this within a managed, secured process multi platforms indexes and digital rights management

system.

Art Printing issues

• High quality, affordable digital printing is now available,

• It must be managed to protect owner’s image quality standards,

• It must protect against illegal duplication and copyrights infringements.

Art On Demand Objectives

• Create a unique, intuitive, multilingual, open and « deep » access to Art contents, at minimal cost,

• Distribute digital contents « on demand » (Print, CD,DVD….)

• Provide users (individual and groups) with innovative tools (built around standards) to communicate and share art knowledge,

• Share resources and reduce investment / operational costs.

Art On Demand Objectives

• Providing a « portfolio » of the most well know 20+ galleries and museums from around the world,

• Sharing and selling this valuable content through a powerful but easy to use online system,

• Deliverying the high quality content on-the-fly,• DRMS to automatically share the IPR between

the various actors involved in the workflow

Art Printing Facts

• Initiative focus on HP Designjet 5500ps printer (42’’ and 60’’ inches),

• UV inks-70 years of permanance,• Teaching users how to handle and store digital

prints properly (surface scratch still a common problem!…),

• Core system is the Kiosk (touch screen « totem »), the server and the printer

AOD Virtual Network

• A secured, Peer to Peer Art Index Portal built from open web sources and content’s owners partnerships,

• A secured network for on demand digital print services,

• A secured communities management network services,

AOD Virtual Network

• Education and Research user’s oriented services for extraction, publication and contents sharing,

• Open, secured, multiple OS platform of Digital Rights Management services.

Education Institutions Network

Instant MessagingVoice over IPVisioPC ShareSearch on shared indexSearch on grid indexContents extractionsAutomated summarizationCrypted exchanges

Administrator

Authentification

Authentification

Authentification

Authentification

Authentification

CoursewareeLearningDigital Storage

Grid IndexNetwork

Print on Demand Network

Kiosk

Digital Imagesservers

Admin/Publishing

CentralClearingPaymentServicesAdmin/Publishing

Museum tour on Demand

Publishing

This picture…..

AOD Picasso Tour.

Room 1……

Room 2………

Wi-Fi

Delivered ondemand

Core Components

• Pertimm Multi-Access engine,

• Caldera Image Collection Platform,

• P2P Clustone Community package,

• AOD Grid Index package,

• Validy smart card security management.

Publishing Components (servers)

• SQL Databases Connectors methodology,

• Pertinence Summarizer Server,

• Dynamic website software,

• AOD search engine.

Publishing Components (individuals)

• eGems Collector,

• Pertinence summarizer,

• AOD search engine,

• 2D and 3D AOD viewer.

Online Contents Facts

• 50. 000 pages from 150 Museum websites (Art Index),

• 40. 000 Images from the content providers (members),

• Multilingual database (English, French and Italian to start, more will follow),

• Prints in 5-10 min. max on the spot!

http://aod.pertimm.com/AOD/fo/smart3/fr/index.html

Initial phase…

•Installations in Italy, France, UK and Spain,

•In progress with other countries like Malta, Ceck Republic, US, Germany and Russia

AOD contributing partners

• HP-Compaq: hardware for contents and servers storages (C2RMF, Alinari, ESISAR, Louvre, RMN, Museè D’Orsay, Il Cortes Ingles, National Gallery UK…)

• ESISAR:integration, tests, monitoring,

• Software partners: software licences and manpower.

European Project

• Integration Contents from key partners,

• Implement infrastructure for Education Institutions,

• Master publishing quality and responsiveness,

• Integrate, develop, implement new features.

Thanks to Art & Science

Thanks to:

• Hewlett Packard Art & Sciences,

• All AOD partners,

• All attendees,

• Special thanks to IS&T for giving me this great opportunity in Vegas! :-)

Mr. Andrea de Polo

Head Information Technology Unit

Alinari Photo Archives, Florence, Italy

email: [email protected]