A Platform for Constructing Distributed Asset Management Systems
Television's transition to digital requires management of a variety of distributed assets. A facility-wide management system must oversee these assets even if the creation and storage systems already include smaller-scale management tools. It is unreasonable to assume that software vendors will give up control of their own asset management in favor of a completely centralized system; therefore, the greatest chance of success is through tools that allow a variety of systems to collaborate. The objective of the Content Share Platform is to enable this collaboration. Neither a monolithic database nor an end-user asset management system, the platform is a set of active software components, called agents and brokers, that permit application software to include standardized data exchange interfaces. These present a layer of abstraction that allows multiple applications to share information about assets in a peer-to-peer environment without giving up control. This ultimately permits systems to grow as a facility grows and gives an organization the opportunity to expand with minimal architectural impact.
- Print ISSN
- 0036-1682
- Published
- 2001-07
- Content type
- Original Research
- DOI
- 10.5594/J11583