In the past two year the VRT has been feeding a new media archive system with all the new content it is producing. The purpose of this project is to make this data more “searchable”. Combining this new data with the old archive data, new ways of exploring are tested. F.i. faceted searches, timeline, coverflow and so on.

Aside from the content that is handcoded, new ways of extracting metadata like face detection, audio detection are explored to feed even more information into the system

• Exploring new User interfaces for faster retrieval of video items
• Wikipedia as collaborative thesaurus effort instead of VRT thesaurus
• Creation of a Media Asset Management System (MAM) for storing video content
• Large File Upload, Transfer and Storage management
• Collaborative Moodboard,/ideaboard for micro-commissioning new movie Projects(IFIP project)
• Integrate drupal with rails application using REST API
• Publish corporate video and metadata to the public and mining of descriptions (Memento Project)
  

• Version 7.x of the Sun ONE Portal includes several collaboration tools like wiki’s, forums and chat. The purpose of this proof of concept was the integration of these new tools within the existing Eurocontrol environment.

• The integration between a web based portal environment and a thin client environment based upon Sun Secure Global Desktop (Tarantella) was established using portlet and netlet technology.
  

• Fedict in the past only did contract management. Because of the inflexibility of creating a common platform, the decision was made to migrate all existing applications to a distributed datacenter with dedicated infrastructure. This datacenter will also host the portal of Belgium and all inter government SOA communication hubs.
• In order to migrate several internal processes need to be implemented, both in service delivery as in service management. ITIL was used as the preferred methodology. Still the methodology is only a guidance, the whole company was changed in order to handle this.
• Due to the complex nature of the applications and lack of clear and current documentation, also the project methodology slowly embraced a more iterative approach: timeboxing, iterative design and dedicated team were chosen to better deliver in time of the ‘political’ milestones.
• The datacenter technology was based upon Redhat Xen virtualization, resulting in separated but centrally managed infrastructure. Installation and configuration of not only the operating system but also the Oracle and Bea Weblogic was automated and integrated in the test cycle.
  

• Telenet as a telecom operator , has a lot of partners integrating with internal processes.
  The first signs of user management were solved using custom inhouse built solutions and have integration with ADAM/Active Directory. The scope of this project is to replace these systems with an industry based identity and access management and open solution.

• The OpenSSO solution is based upon Sun Access Manager solution. The internal application landscape demanded a more distributed policy management.

• In order to improve access to the medical data and applications, AZ Nikolaas started a Request for Proposal for a new Identity management System. They had stated their functional requirements in this document.

• Different vendors proposed different solutions with different architectures. The evaluation of the impact and match of these solutions was difficult because they had no experience with the proposed solutions.
  

• Credoc technically runs the portal and mail environment used by every notary in Belgium. (+/- 8000). As Trust is very important they have high security standards to implement. After an Audit which they successfully past, the next step was to improve the reliability of the solution even more by implementing an Disaster Recovery Solution.
• While Credoc technically passed the Audit, the most urgent was not a technical one but an organizational: Operations successfully ran the environment but too many new projects pushed things into production. Given the understaffing, this resulted in more operational errors and incidents increased and less time was available for the Disaster Recovery Plan.

• Using Scrum both the operational Systems group was aligned with the operational Application group. On a higher level the projects became aware that the operational group was a ‘shared’ resources and therefore a bottleneck in the organization. Priorities were put in a Program Plan. A new ticketing system was introduced to better overview ongoing efforts.

• On the technical level , the architecture was designed based upon the multisite concept and blades systems of HP.
• For better and faster deployment of projects, different environments were set up and the whole process was documented and further automated, using continuous integration.
  

• The bus company “De Lijn” made a Request For Proposal for Identity and Access Management. Together with Telindus and ACA-IT we responded to this proposal.

• The proposal was an integration for their internal offices and their public portal environment. A specific part was the integration of Network Intelligence for log consolidation and auditing. The solution was tightly coupled with the Sun Identity and Access management stack.