Workgroups - Content

Apart from the actual delivery of content advanced content platforms also have to provide support for various related tasks and processes. These can be provided as value added services allowing the content provider for instance to offer a wider variety of formats, easier access or introduce interactivity. Users might be able to access such services for easier navigation, personalization adaptation of content to their needs, etc. The idea is to use so called content services in conjunction with the underlying network infrastructure to provide a network of content services and by doing so forming a content network.
The goal of this Technical Activity is to understand how to provide appropriate abstractions content services and how they can form a content network on top of overlay networks (as described in Technical Activity 3). Further, how to deal with specific aspects associated with services (such as service discovery, service description, service level agreements) is also part of the research associated with this technical activity. Exemplary services are integrated into the overall infrastructure to fully demonstrate the concept of content service networks.