AMW Association (formerly AAF Association)

AMWA Meetings
14-16 November 2007
London, UK
BBC Offices

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AGENDA (updated as of 11/8/2023)

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SOA Training and Users Meeting - AMWA with EBU Project Members Wednesday, 14 November
0900-1800
B142, BBC Television Centre
Wood Lane, London
(White City Underground Stop)

0900-0915	Registration and coffee
0915-0930	Welcome and Introduction, Brad Gilmer & Per Boehler
0930-1015	Introduction of EBU Work related to file-based workflows, modelling and system integration, Ingo Höntsch & Steven van Assche problems, approach, technical details
1015-1100	AMWA Work related to workflows and file formats, John Footen/Phil Tudor specific user reqs, what has been achieved
1100-1130	Coffee
1130-1300	Standardisation Organisations OASIS / OMG / W3C / WS-I, SMPTE Ugo Corda, Bob Edge relevant work and introduction to their working practices
1300-1400	Lunch
1400-1430	Service Oriented Architectures John Footen introduction to SOA and relevance for broadcasting
1430-1500	AV Timing Considerations for Media-focused SOA Systems Al Kovalick
1500-1630	Open Discussion on the Technological Outlook: General questions for this discussion: 1. What problems are we trying to solve? Identify the user requirements and practical problems. 2. What technology is relevant to solve those? Based on this morning's presentations + audience input 3. How is it going to be standardised? Examples to start/focus the discussion: 1. Need to clearly specify requirements/model: - The Ingest use case. 2. Need to have more than a file specification alone to create integrated workflows: - MXF Mastering format - MXF API's
1630-1700	Wrap-up and next steps, Brad Gilmer & Per Boehler
1700-1800	AMWA Board meeting (AMWA board members only)

AMWA Engineering Meeting
Thursday, 15 November
0900-1700
BBC Television Centre; Meeting Room 5, Sixth Floor
Wood Lane, London
(White City Underground Stop)

1.	(0900) Administration Welcome, logistical arrangements, introductions
2.	Approval of agenda
3.	(0915-1000) Action items from previous meetings
4.	(1000-1300) MXF/AAF File Format Development
4.1	Toolkits - AAF v1.1.2 release - AAF v1.1.3 task list - Longer term roadmap
4.2	Specs - AAF SMPTE documents - MXF revision issues
	(1300-1400) Lunch
5.	(1400-1500) AAF Color Decision List & Titling operations (David Mansergh)
6.	(1500-1700) AMWA Product Registration Process (Jim Trainor) (DIAL IN) - Status of tools and reporting - Spec clarification

AMWA Engineering Meeting
Friday, 16 November
0900-1800
Media Centre, BBC Media Village; Boardroom, Third floor
201 Wood Lane, London
(White City Underground Stop)

7.	(0900-1100) Media Services Architecture Group (John Footen, Ugo Corda) (DIAL IN) - review of tasks and status - use case review and atomic services - follow-up to EBU discussions
8.	(1100-1300) MXF Mastering Protocol (Bruce Devlin)
	(1300-1400) Lunch
9.	(1400-1600) Media Authoring with Java API (Richard Cartwright) - Overview of what has been completed / released, including a short demo. - Methodology and design issues – challenges posed by Java - User requirements e.g. approach to file format support – structured storage, MXF, RegXML, etc. - Technical requirements for Phase 2 - Resources - Links to and support of other AMWA projects (wsMXF, MSAG etc.) - AOB
10.	(1600-1700) Web Services API for Material Exchange Formats (wsMXF) (Oliver Morgan) (DIAL IN) - V1 spec - V2 spec - forward migration V1 to V2 - backward compatibility V2 to V1
11.	AOB