Microsoft Services is de-investing in the Interactive Media Manager (IMM) solution. There will be no further development of the solution, nor any official support of this Microsoft IP beyond a custom support agreement from the Microsoft Premier organization...

Recently we discovered an issue in the installation guide’s import script that was causing the ontologies to be incorrectly imported. There was an extra call to DeleteResource that was resulting in previously imported ontologies to be removed. Here is...

It’s often very useful when creating custom SPARQL queries against the IMM Metadata Store using the sw_Sparql stored procedure to pull in some “inferred” metadata from the ontologies that you have imported.  For example, you may have ingested a bunch...

Ok, so I have been playing around with the ADO.NET DataServices to get something working for a REST based access to the RDF Store. My goal here was to create a simple REST based way to grab metadata out of the RDF store based on the ADO.NET DataServices...

A common question that comes up a lot on our IMMAsk@microsoft.com alias is how does one delete all of the RDF triples in the IMM database.  Just follow these simple steps. Open up SQL Server Management Studio and connect to your SQL Server. Open...

  Today we posted an updated MetadataPolicy.xml configuration file to support more image metadata fields when using the IMM Media Services to extract metadata from a JPEG or TIFF image. Download the latest cersion of the file and replace the existing...

Henry Stewart is a briefing and networking event focused on digital asset management. We will be attending the Los Angeles, CA briefing event, with a presentation focused on showing how companies can streamline the creation, management, and delivery of...

Today I would like to profile an advanced SPARQL query, break it down, and explain how each part works. The Query: with ( select ?entityIdIn ?highestTypeOut { { ?entityIdIn rdf:type ?highestTypeOut . } not () { ?entityIdIn rdf:type ?hType ...

Many areas of the IMM SDK have been vastly improved in version 2. The most common operations have been streamlined and simplified. The sample below demonstrates some differences in using the new IMM SDK, as well as highlights the improvements we have...

A question that always comes up is how to bulk export and bulk import raw nTriples or RDF/XML into and out of the IMM Semantic Store. Its actually quite simple.  You should open up the RDFQA.exe application in the %Program Files%\Microsoft Interactive...

IMM is designed to enable users who work with rich media to ingest, manage, edit, and distribute content. While IMM is based on Office SharePoint Server 2007 and offers collaborative, enterprise content management, and search capabilities, IMM is designed...

We were recently in Las Vegas for the National Association of Broadcaster's (NAB) convention 2008 and produced a simple 19 minute video that shows the DEMO we presented. Eric Schoonover, Lead Solution Architect, takes you on the full tour of IMM v2.0...

  Another NAB down, this has to be my 11th or 12th show and it's starting to feel a bit repetitive.  One thing that did perk my interest at this year's show was a book.   I always look forward to visiting the NAB book store to see...

Kirk Evans just put up an interview he did with Mark Kashman, IMM Product Manager, onto Channel9. Check it out .

A continuation from the Part 1 article on how to define new custom Ontologies for use in IMM. Once you have your properties and vocabulary defined, you now need to create classes to use those properties with. In IMM, there are a number of pre defined...

Since IMM uses Semantic Web technologies like RDF. OWL, and SPARQL, it is a requirement to first set up a useful and meaningful metadata model that can be expressed using the Web Ontology Language (OWL) as the first step in deploying an IMM solution....

How long should it take you to build out an IMM site like this? What about if you need to extend our ontology because it doesn’t meet all of your needs? Just last week we had to do this very thing for one of our internal customers here at Microsoft...

To kick off our IMM team blog, I thought it would be appropriate to post a link to our latest demo that we built out for the International Broadcasters Association (IBC) convention in Amsterdam. We had a very good show this year, and I want to thank James...