EXPERIMEDIA: Technology enablers for a future media Internet testing facility

Creating innovative Future Media Internet (FMI) products and services is a complex endeavour requiring consideration of socio-technical factors and an increasingly diverse technology landscape. Accelerating time to market requires the availability of technology enablers adapted to local contexts and integrated together to create added value patterns of use. In this paper we present a set of such technology enablers used within a FMI testing facility. We describe how each enabler has been constructed to support the lifecycle of different classes of content and integrated to provide coherent and representative aggregations of content expected in FMI applications and services. A set of lessons learnt are derived from experiments conducted using the enablers at venues of the facility.