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The Web Browser Access Module
provides access to the SCC MediaServer system via a standard Web browser.
The module supports multiple library searches, preview and compare, record
editing, image soft cropping, file download and delivery, as well as many
customizable display layout features.
The Budget/Assignment Module allows the creation
of news budgets and assignment records from SCC MediaGrid, from a Web
browser, from an editorial system, from an email form, or from any system
capable of outputting a structured text document to a server directory.
The module allows budget and assignment records to be tracked through
various stages and supports the attachment of multimedia content such
as photos, videos, graphics and stories. All submitted content including
budget and assignment records are linked together for easy retrieval.
The Delivery Module enables automated delivery
of documents stored within an SCC MediaServer system. The module supports
multiple destinations, each configured with a time to send, an output
format, and an output location, including print queue, network directory,
FTP site, email address, or IP socket address. The module also incorporates
a sophisticated event management system that allows "trigger"
conditions to be set based on date and time or on matching field attribute
values within the records themselves. Events such as image rotation, multi-object
linking, word count calculation, lead paragraph extraction, header field
population, unique ID generation, text and image format transformation,
and file delivery by email or FTP can all be configured to run automatically.
The ObjectML/NewsML Integration Module provides
tight integration with editorial systems equipped with ObjectML or NewsML
export engines and provides a user friendly and highly configurable interface
to the otherwise complex export data. Once configured the SCC module performs
all necessary data extraction and conversion, record insertion, auto-enhancement,
and record linking automatically and completely in order to produce an
enriched archive of all publication elements generated within the originating
editorial system. In addition, the ObjectML Module automatically generates
the data package used by the SCC SmoothNooz eEdition product.
The SmoothNooz eEdition Module generates eEdition
packages automatically from publication data exported by the editorial
system. SmoothNooz maintains the newspaper's brand, look, layout, and
personality, but adds all the interoperability and user-centered design
of an online Rich Internet Application. It's like reading the printed
newspaper -- only better. The user's experience is smooth, intuitive,
natural, and easy, allowing the user to zoom in to any level, zoom out
to any level, slide from side to side, page to page, or have SmoothNooz
do it automatically.
The Calais Module interfaces SCC MediaServer
systems directly to OpenCalais, a service provided by Thomson Reuters.
OpenCalais uses natural language processing (NLP), machine learning and
other techniques, to analyze each record and extract a wide variety of
entities, facts and events from unstructured content. The SCC Calais Module
makes the entire process automatic, monitoring MediaServer libraries for
newly arriving content, for existing stored content, or for content marked
for delivery to one or more target destinations. The module also includes
a Rich Internet Application (RIA) viewer, which provides a hierarchical
tree of entities, facts, events, and social tags extracted from the record,
as well as a marked-up version of the record's text identifying each of
the entities, facts, events and other enrichment metadata in their actual
context.
The Enhanced Video Support Module builds on
SCC’s existing video format support by significantly expanding the number
of video formats supported for insertion into the SCC MediaServer system.
The module includes a transcoding service that automatically transforms
incoming video files into rich media packages consisting of high def video,
thumbnails, keyframes, and proxies of varying size and resolution, ready
for insertion. The module includes a Rich Internet Application (RIA) Viewer
that uses streaming technology to provide instant playback from any point
in a video, and enabling simple point and click frame navigation from
the keyframes strip (storyboard) below the video window.
The RSS Reader Module automatically and continually
retrieves and interprets new content from multiple RSS or ATOM feed sites
over the internet, extracts text and thumbnail data, inserts it into one
or more MediaServer libraries, and makes it accessible to clients via
the same sophisticated search and retrieval techniques available for all
other MediaServer content. MediaServer clients, both MediaGrid and the
web browser client, mark the inserted RSS items with the familiar RSS
icon which, when clicked, launches the RSS item using the Link Url embedded
in the RSS item. This effectively makes MediaServer a sophisticated RSS
reader, able to aggregate numerous disparate RSS feeds into a single system
offering high accessiblilty through the many MediaServer tagging and search
features.
The RSS Syndication Module creates customized
RSS feeds dynamically from changing content in MediaServer Libraries,
across libraries, or in MediaServer Projects. The module can be configured
as to number of feeds, number of items, and items meeting date and search
criteria based on MediaServer metadata. All feeds are standard RSS 2.0
compliant, compatible with the RSS support found in any standard web browser
and most common RSS Reader applications. Users can target individual feeds
directly by their url, or use the RSS Hub page that assembles all the
feeds and provides convenient redirect points. When users click the RSS
item in their readers they are redirected back to the RSS Syndication
Module, which retrieves the appropriate object from MediaServer and presents
it in a Rich Internet Application (RIA) designed specifically for the
media object.
The MS Word Integration Module
provides a bridge that allows Microsoft Word to access, display and change
attributes of objects stored in the SCC MediaServer system.
The TearSheets Module supports the insertion
of ad data exported from planning systems, or from any front-end advertising
system capable of producing a structured export file. This module provides
automatic linking between the ad record and related page, ad and invoice
components. Once linked, selected components such as page and invoice
can be automatically delivered by FTP (File Transfer Protocol) or email
to one or more destinations.
The Replication Module provides the ability
to maintain an identical copy of a MediaServer system at a remote site.
The module incorporates a scheduling mechanism that can be configured
to provide near real-time replication of the system, or configured to
run only at certain times of the day.
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