MediaMosa: the Drupal Digital Asset Management System

MediaMosa: the Drupal Digital Asset Management System This talk will show the functionality and use cases of MediaMosa, a Digital Asset Management System built with Drupal. I will highlight the way it was built on Drupal 7, and how we're moving forward to Drupal 8. I will show how MediaMosa is used together with Drupal to build solutions for Flemish cultural heritage institutions like Digipolis and VIAA. MediaMosa is software to build a Full Featured, Webservice Oriented Media Management and Distribution platform. With MediaMosa you can build a state-of-the-art, scalable Middleware Media Distribution Platform which facilitates access to, and usage of (shared) storage capacity, metadata databases, transcoding- and streaming servers. A MediaMosa platform offers functionality for searching, playing, uploading, transcoding, as well as a fine granularity media access control system towards its users. MediaMosa is based on the Representational State Transfer (REST) architecture and is designed to support content streaming applications by providing a back-end-, audio- and video-infrastructure. The main features of a MediaMosa platform are: - Delivery platform for audio, video (and in fact any other content) - Streaming of any format (e.g. Flash, H.264, MPEG-4) - Transcoding based on FFmpeg - Flexible Metadata Element Sets - Access management functions on Media - Enhanced Still functions - Open Source under GPLv2 license MediaMosa is a free and open software package. It is based on the Drupal CMS and supports the use of several other Open Source software system such as FFmpeg.