Media Content Re-purposing

Abstract.. This paper describes a framework architecture for the automated re-purposing and efficient delivery of multimedia content stored in CMSs. It deploys specifically designed templates as well as adaptation rules based on a hierarchy of profiles to accommodate user, device and network requirements invoked as constraints in the adaptation process. The user profile provides information in accordance with the opt-in principle, while the device and network profiles provide the operational constraints such as for example resolution and bandwidth limitations. The profiles hierarchy ensures that the adaptation privileges the users ’ preferences. As part of the adaptation, we took into account the support for users ’ special needs, and therefore adopted a template-based approach that could simplify the adaptation process integrating accessibility-by-design in the template