The MARIAGE project aimed at the development of principles, frameworks and demonstrators for life-time media albums. Media types of interest were photographs, videos, music and software-based media such as web pages, flash films, and computer games. We focused on the 'prosumer' type of user, a person who is producing and consuming media objects. MARIAGE dealt with long-term availability of execution environments, with media format availability in a life-time perspective, with metadata management, and with interoperability between the media album platforms that prosumers use.

Benefit for society

The project's findings resulted in recommendations for the long-time preservation, retrieval, and use of private multimedia. We published a number of guidelines on the issues targeting in particular at software developers and users on how to handle long-time multimedia albums.