SCC MediaServer


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For the ultimate in workflow content management and digital archive systems, discover SCC MediaServer.

The system defines a true workflow, preserving familiar working methods and practices, as well as centralizing operations into a single database environment.

SCC MediaServer is available in both Enterprise and Express Editions, and supports the management and archival of all digital media types, including Photos, PDFs, Graphics, Sound, Video and Text content.

Designed around an industry standard SQL relational database and incorporating leading edge full text search technology, SCC MediaServer is ideally suited for storing large numbers of files, with many concurrent users accessing across a wide area network.

The system supports "Lightweight" or "Power" user access from either SCC MediaGrid for MacOSX and Windows, or from a standard Web Browser.

MediaServer includes SCC MediaFactory, a multi-channel workflow manager application for Windows 200x/XP/Vista.

Support for SAN, NAS and CD/DVD Jukebox storage technology allows for large capacity expansion and scalability.

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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