Last update: 2011/08/28

The Digital Media Project

 

The DMP Home Page

 

Mission

DMP is a not-for-profit organisation with the mission to "promote continuing successful development, deployment and use of Digital Media that respect the rights of creators and rights holders to exploit their works, the wish of end users to fully enjoy the benefits of Digital Media and the interests of various value-chain players to provide products and services, according to the principles laid down in the Digital Media Manifesto". Read the DMP Statutes.

 

Current work

The DMP is currently working on Open Connected TV (OCTV) which seeks to enrich one-way TV services with interoperable multichannel two-way content access and delivery.

OCTV has the twofold goal of developing

1. The OCTV specification, based on international standards, to enable the creation of a broad market of products, content, services and applications
2. The OCTV platform, an industry-grade implementation, to accelerate market development.

See the Core OCTV home page.
 

Achievements

DMP was established in December 2003. Through the hard work of the DMP members and the grassroots DMP community meeting 4 times per year in General Assemblies and Ad hoc groups, (see the full list of Events), the DMP has

• Produced Specifications and Schemas of its Interoperable DRM Platform (IDP) now at version 3.3 (word, pdf) following rigorous Procedures. To become conversant in IDP-3.3 read the technical walkthrough in IDP-3.3
• Developed Chillout, an Open Source Software implementation of the IDP
• Conducted large scale field trials (e.g. the Beijing Olympics trial running here)
• Converted a large part of its technicalresults into ISO International Standards
• Participated in consultation initiatives undertaken by Public Authorities to adapt legislation to the new realities brought about by digital media technologies.

To read

• DMP Press releases
• Media coverage
• DMP Presentation (ppt)
• Technical documents (open access )
• Documents (access restricted to membership).

Join the DMPF group on LinkedIn.

 

To join DMP

Companies, organisations and individuals can become DMP members by signing a copy of the DMP Statutes for acceptance and paying the yearly fee of 1,500 CHF. See details on how to join DMP, its Organisation and the list of Members.