Building and Operating the GREDIA Media Pilot Application
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1. hotographer Layou Z D Editor Resources Archive j Journalistic Peer Group Reviewer Connect to the Internet The objectives set previously are envisaged through two different business application scenarios that address the GREDIA orientations on alternative views as explained below 1 2 1 Media Collaboration Scenario The core idea of the Media Collaboation test scenario is to demonstrate how news content from geographically spread deployed journalists can be managed and distributed in order to serve the everyday activities in a media organisation The reason for using such a scenario is to address an increasingly pressing problem in media organizations Managing and steering offerings e g websites on which content quickly ages and needs to be updated with many contributors authors journalists etc in parallel To this end a dashboard was developed based on the GREDIA functionalities which allows to overview the workflow and monitor completion of associated tasks An example that shows why this is relevant and a typical task where GREDIA can help is the Study in Germany scenario from Deutsche Welle It offers information on more than 60 locations university towns in Germany including sections about the cities themselves the quality of the universities advice on where to live what to do and so on Such content needs to be updated frequently Usually this is done by assigning one main editor w2. LO we Figure 6 The journalist task dashboard STEP J 5 Uploading content When the journalist clicks any of the Upload buttons the upload form will appear The journalist must press the Browse button to select a file from the local system to upload Up to 4 files can be simultaneously uploaded If more files need to be uploaded in a single go the journalist can press the More Files button to expand the form 10 SS REDIA Building and Operating the GREDI A Media Pilot Application Files rs ee Browse Figure 7 The content upload form Pressing Upload will complete the uploading and will return the journalist to the previous form 2 2 2 Global Village user manual STEP 1 Access the application Connect to http hestia atc gr gredia You will be redirected to the portal location You may want to bookmark this address for future direct access STEP 2 Login In order to log in write your username and password Make sure that you change the Virtual Organisation VO to Global Village Poy VO GlobalVillage Y Username i Password m Figure 8 The GREDI A portal login screen STEP 3 Home Page for logged in users the Top 20 list After logging in the user is presented with a table with the highest rated items according to Credibility or Popularity Clicking on the arrow icon in the Credibility or the Popularity column header will change the
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4. The key idea was to simulate a full workflow from content gathering in the field to content transmission via GREDIA to content publication on a platform 6 S REDIA Building and Operating the GREDI A Media Pilot Application 2 Pilot Manuals 2 1 Building the pilot 2 1 1 Running the Application Scenario In order to be able to interface with the media pilot application and any APPEA application scenario the following conditions need to be met e The user must have an operational Web browser with javascript supports and cookies turned on e The user must be registered with the FiVO framework as a member of a relevant Virtual Organization this can be done by contacting bkryza agh edu pl Once these steps are complete the user may log into the GREDIA portal and execute any application scenarios available to him her including the media pilot scenarios Rate Item I like it this much Ts it true Figure 1 Executing APPEA prepared application scenarios using a Web portal 2 1 2 Modifying and Committing the Application Scenario If the user wishes to modify the application scenario or deploy new application scenarios then he she must set up the Application Execution Planning Tool which is available for download from the http gredia cyfronet p website The AEPT is based on the Eclipse framework and requires the user to have an operational version of the Java Development Toolkit 1 6 0 10 or later Specific manua
5. Scenario is to demonstrate how news from individuals groups of people or local communities anywhere in the world can quickly be made available for media professionals and global audiences This scenario commences by allowing people to join geographically defined communities and act as information gatherers suppliers by using a Web based application in order to publish their work about what they regard as relevant news and information from their area or what they consider worth reporting on Each community is governed by a specific contract agreement being formulated by the media organisation controlling the specific community and specifying the rules of cooperation in terms of defining which types of users can perform certain actions or access protected information A citizen news reporter can securely submit multimedia content any file together with associated metadata by logging into the portal Registered users of the Global Village can access the web application to search the latest content and view public news items They can also rate a news item selecting from a range of not interesting to extremely interesting Moreover registered community members can additionally rate news items as corroborate or disputed All these popularity and accuracy measurements are recorded and constantly averaged Popularity is measured by the number of positive ratings i e interesting or very interesting it receives upo
6. ET ect dashboard h Su DIA Building and Operating the GREDI A Media Pilot Application The editor can press the Add City button to create a new city Then he she can press the Assign Task button to assign a journalist to this city Currently only one journalist can be assigned to each city When a journalist is assigned to a city he is also sent a notification by email The green x buttons can be used to delete a city a journalist assignment or uploaded content items Clicking on a content item this will be downloaded to the client device When journalists start uploading files these will appear on this table The editor can use the Refresh button at the upper right to refresh the view J OURNALI ST ROLE STEP J 3 Home page for logged in J ournalists After logging in with the credentials of a journalist you will see the following page Logout 2 Welcome piagram x a Figure 5 The journalists home page The three icons on the upper right are always there and are used to x Restart the application scenario Refresh the page 9 Bring up the help window STEP J 4 The tasks dashboard The journalist needs then to select a project and click the Show Tasks button Then a page like the following will appear Tasks Notifications Welcome piagram YL SL gredia_logo png CB066593_LoRes jpg _ barbie bmp A ka O O EF d Upload load L upload L upioaa Upload aa
7. cking the scenario name and selecting Team gt New Release The same procedure applies to any other application scenario If the user wishes to create a new scenario he she should click the New Application Scenario button A new scenario can be committed to the Application Scenario Repository by right clicking its name and selecting Team gt Share Project 2 2 Pilot User Manuals 2 2 1 Media Collaboration user manual This section provides the getting started guide for the Media Collaboration Scenario of the media pilot application which outlines the steps that a user needs to go through in order to take advantage of all provided functionalities In summary there were two main user roles editor in charge of planning assignments etc and journalist performing assigned tasks The editor s primary task was to organise and manage the whole information gathering process To this end the editor was able to assign tasks to journalists who would then be responsible to provide content A dashboard built with the help of the GREDIA platform provided information which of the tasks were completed and which were still pending The following are the steps that the two individual roles can go through STEP 1 Access the application Connect to http hestia atc gr gredia You will be redirected to the portal location You may want to bookmark this address for future direct access STEP 2 Login In order to log in write your u
8. criterion for the ordering The three icons on the upper left are always there and are used to x Restart the application scenario Refresh the page le SS SA REDIA Building and Operating the GREDI A Media Pilot Application Bring up the help window x a i O R Top 20 items uploaded by citizens journalists jemena aean aaa aa eera E epee mee SEE Mares weet a a pa a Figure 9 The Global Village home page At any time the user can click on the Star icon in the Rate column to vote for an item Users can vote on how credible they think the item is as well as how much they like the item Based on these two ratings two average scores are calculated and presented for each item in the Credibility and Popularity columns Rate Item x I like it this much 0 Is it true Don t know Figure 10 The rating item form Any item can be downloaded by clicking on the Disk icon in the Download column STEP 4 Searching for items The user can search all items by clicking at the search binoculars icon The results of the search can be narrowed down by filling in the fields of the following form Category Figure 11 The search form The results appear in a table similar to the previous one When more than 15 items are available they are split in pages The user can sort the results using the arrow icons in any of the column headers 2 CNA REDIA Building and Opera
9. ct edit and re broadcast material from the field which is of high priority From a technical point of view Measure the performance of the Grid enabled applications to overcome the limitations of legacy systems Compare the field operation with the theoretical performance of the system through evaluation of the media pilot through user feedback from validation exercises Evaluate the effectiveness of the pilot for multimedia information collection distribution with respect to usability and functionality 1 2 Pilot Scenarios Overview This section makes an overview of the pilot test scenarios which were followed to execute the field trials The media pilot application brings together the market orientation and pervasiveness of mobile communication technology with the promise of a dynamically concerted use of resources and services provided through secure Grid infrastructures and subject to certain contract based policies This application allows the participating roles in an information gathering scenario making their work available to a trusted network of co workers the instant it is produced using alternative desktop or mobile devices A graphical representation of the media pilot application concept is depicted in the following figure S F REDIA Building and Operating the GREDI A Media Pilot Application Nis amp Annotator ak LY R ZA Journalist Reporter IK WL mew t Manager LN Q Us C
10. ho works with and manages an additional 15 to 20 journalists who cover individual locations in the field some of the journalists produce content for several cities In addition to the text content on the portal photos and videos are also on offer and hence need to be produced In the particular case of Deutsche Welle as a multilingual content provider such content later needs to be translated into at least eight key languages Thus the number of total items quickly rises in the case of the Study in Germany scenario it becomes necessary to handle a great amount of data files and formats and manage the contributors efficiently and as effectively as possible That is why the Study in Germany Scenario was proposed and used in the GREDIA validation process as a test case This scenario was commenced by enabling the participating media organisations DW and DIAS to start up a project in which journalists situated in different cities within a country are allocated the task to gather and distribute information about these cities with a particular editorial brief Through a Web based interface the users defined as editors are delegating tasks to a variety of journalists and provide review functionality of the released content The journalists can upload or download content into a shared workspace Grid As soon as journalists are assigned tasks to report about they automatically receive notifications by email and have the task added to
11. ls are provided on the http gredia cyfronet p website please consult the Installation section AEPT is available both for Linux and Windows systems If the user wishes to execute application scenarios locally a GSEngine server package needs to be downloaded and installed This package is also available at gredia cyfronet pl Otherwise a GSEngine client needs to be installed and connected to a running instance of the remote Execution Service such as those deployed on virolab cyfronet pl and gredia cyfronet pl port 6900 The AEPT includes a user friendly wizard devoted to configuring the GSEngine software Once the AEPT is configured the user may log into the system using his her FiVO handle same as for end users and check out any scenario from the GREDIA scenario repository which is located at http gredia cyfronet pl trac gredia wiki installation Upon checkout the application scenario script can be modified and new files attached as required The overall sequence of actions is as follows e Start AEPT e Log in using your FiVO credentials S REDIA Building and Operating the GREDI A Media Pilot Application e Click the Check out Application Scenario button and import the selected scenario into your local workspace e Introduce any modifications you wish e Commit the scenario by right clicking its name and selecting Team gt Commit e Optionally you may also release the scenario for execution by the Portal by right cli
12. n exceeding a certain threshold of views Accuracy is measured by the number of corroborate tags normalized by the size of the community as news items from larger communities are likely to receive more ratings From a business perspective deploying such a scenario allows for the following Media organisations can expand their newsgathering process to a mobile and citizen based community governed by contract based access to generated content Media organisations gain a database with user generated content and material as seen from the citizens perspective Potential users can use rating and popularity mechanisms to prioritise the available user generated content Editors can select hot topics to be further reviewed from a professional point of view From a technical perspective the demonstrated scenario highlights the following GREDIA perspectives S REDIA Building and Operating the GREDI A Media Pilot Application Set up of policy controlled citizens communities to jointly work with professionals1 The unique ability of the GREDIA platform to handle massive parallel data for upload and download disseminated in a fully distributed manner Efficient management of mobile enablers to create content and perform workflow based processes and tasks In order to test this situation offerings such as Flickr and YouTube were tested and used in conjunction with trials for media transfer through the GREDIA platform
13. oject and in order to assess the effectiveness of the GREDIA platform in real life a media and journalism application has been developed which enables news content being gathered from geographically spread deployed journalists to be efficiently managed and distributed in order to serve everyday activities in a media organization and news items from individuals groups of people or local communities anywhere in the world to quickly be made available for media professionals and global audiences Building and Operating the GREDI A Media Pilot Application 1 1 Objectives The GREDIA media pilot application aims to showcase the following objectives From a business perspective Operation over a Grid enabled platform which provides clear benefits for the specific workflow of information collection and enables for massive access to media annotated content Secure access for journalists or citizen journalists working in the field any time and from any place Secure transfer of material from the field even when reporting from regions of the world where the freedom of the press is not provided by allowing mobile devices to establish secure connections to trusted grid nodes the grid proxies Selection of incoming material in the newsroom through efficient data discovery and transfer Support situations that evolve suddenly without planning and with very short time to judge and edit the material Help the newsroom to find sele
14. sername and password Make sure that you don t change the Virtual Organisation VO from Media Collaboration VO Media Collaboration Y Username Password Figure 2 The GREDIA portal login screen EDITOR ROLE REDIA Building and Operating the GREDI A Media Pilot Application STEP E3 Home page for logged in Editors After logging in with the credentials of an editor you will see the following page i SS ae a x 5 n Or ogout NJ REDIA OZ oe Welcome jochenspangenberg Project Selection Existing projects Open this project New project name lt x a Figure 3 The editor home page The three icons on the upper right are always there and are used to x Restart the application scenario Refresh the page Bring up the help window The editor can select a project to monitor create a new project or view his her notifications The creation of a new project involves the declaration of a number of cities and the assignment of journalists to these cities STEP E4 The project dashboard When an existing project is selected a page like the following will appear Cities Journalists ee _ Text reports _ Video reports Radio ee Pictures Aachen Aachen COET PiaGram X PiaGram X ao pi Berlin Benz BerinZ martin maass E Maass martin maass O Berlin Wedding 444 Koch Ea eart a tp Poot ee eee eee eee eee a ee Jd Hl Sues 4 The editor CE
15. their table As soon as they upload information this becomes visible on the editor s table and he can immediately download it 4 S REDIA Building and Operating the GREDI A Media Pilot Application Through this scenario the workflow in the media organisations can be supported and enhanced from a business perspective as editors are assisted in effectively completing projects of efficient information gathering dynamically created teams are sharing a policy based and access controlled collaboration space Virtual Organization to supply their work editors are given the task to manage information sources which means assigning individual journalists with the task to report about a set of items allocated to them All users experience a service based approach to complete their work meaning that specific actions can be managed subject to the special needs of the certain role From a technical point of view the demonstrated scenario achieved to highlight the following GREDIA perspectives Set up of dynamic and contract based collaboration communities working teams subject to specific authorisation policies and access rights to distributed content and services Massive and distributed access to unlimited amount of existing content Building on new added value and maintainable applications to support different and dynamically grown business scenarios 1 2 2 Global Village Scenario The core idea of the Global Village
16. ting the GREDI A Media Pilot Application moO List of media items uploaded by citizens journalists Displaying items from 16 to 30 out of 82 Figure 12 The search results STEP 4 Uploading items To upload a content item the user must click on the green icon The following form will appear Date Created 07 07 2009 Date Modified 07 07 2009 Entertainment v Keywords Figure 13 The upload item form The user must select a file and fill in the author name The keywords field is optional but carefully tagging a file will help users searching for it 13
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