IndiePix and NetworkedPlanet Present Discovery - Knowledge Based Navigation of Independent Film

IndiePix and NetworkedPlanet Present Discovery - Knowledge Based Navigation of Independent Film

NEW YORK, and OXFORD, England, Oct. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- IndiePix, the ultimate resource for independent film fans and filmmakers, and NetworkedPlanet, the leader in topic mapped file management and search systems, today announce the launch and availability of the world's largest intelligent database of curated independent films and the state-of-the-art web technology that powers the service. Underlying the presentation of over 3,000 titles, Discovery enables film lovers to discover and explore the world's best films from independent filmmakers, as well as order and download films of interest on the IndiePix Web site (www.IndiepixFilms.com).

Discovery is a revolutionary, intelligent navigation system. It allows the IndiePix team of film experts to manage information about a film and to add information based on their expertise. The system creates relevant, content-based links between films, linking them to one another through this knowledge-based process. The graphical display based on this process is designed specifically to expand user choices by helping create intelligent pathways through the large and growing world of independent film.

"The process expands choices in ways that are unexpected and opens up paths for exploring IndiePix's rapidly growing catalog of film titles," says Bob Alexander, president, IndiePix. "There are a variety of so-called 'recommendation engines' that suggest films a consumer may like, but we suggest choices that are related to a consumer's starting point."

The Discovery process is powered by NetworkedPlanet's TMCore information management engine, a topic mapping system that identifies, calculates, and manages the relationships among the objects (films, in this case) in an enterprise database. In the IndiePix implementation, the TMCore engine is managing well over 200,000 relationships among 3,000 titles, and the number of relationships expands exponentially as new films are added.

"TM Core is a server platform for enterprise knowledge and information management applications; it stores and manages 'topic maps' of the entire content of the IndiePix Web site. This map is then the basis for driving the Discovery display," says Kal Ahmed, co-founder, NetworkedPlanet. "TM Core delivers a detailed index of information resources across systems via a single unified information portal, and IndiePix's implementation led to the development of special algorithms to weigh and manage the data as part of the display process."

The Discovery process can be launched from the IndiePix Web site at www.indiepixfilms.com/discovery.

A flash presentation summarizing the Discovery process from a users point of view will be available on the corporate information page at the IndiePix Web site at www.indiepixfilms.com/press.

IndiePix and NetworkedPlanet are hosting a web seminar on Wednesday, Oct. 17, at 10 a.m. PDT, 1 p.m. EDT and 6 p.m. UK. For more information or to join this seminar, please contact Jillian Chertok at 212-679-2233.

About IndiePix

Founded in 2004 in New York, IndiePix is leading the effort to reorganize the economics of independent film distribution, breaking down the barriers between filmmakers and film enthusiasts. IndiePix offers tailored packages for filmmakers who wish to make their works available for purchase on DVD. IndiePix is comprised of a group of home video experts, information professionals, and media arts specialists, brought together by their love and support of independent film. For more information about IndiePix, please visit www.IndiePixFilms.com.

About NetworkedPlanet

NetworkedPlanet was formed in 2004 to develop topic map processing tools and applications specifically for the Microsoft .NET framework. The company's first product, TMCore05, was released in January 2005. NetworkedPlanet provides a suite of tools and products to organise and structure the access to information to make it easier to locate and more relevant to end-users. It provides a range of tools scaling up from work-group information management to full-scale commercial websites and enterprise content management systems.

For more information, please visit www.networkedplanet.com.

Source: IndiePix

CONTACT: Jillian Chertok of Bratskeir & Company, +1-212-679-2233,
jchertok@bratskeir.com, for IndiePix

Web site: http://www.indiepixfilms.com/
http://www.indiepixfilms.com/press
http://www.indiepixfilms.com/discovery
http://www.networkedplanet.com/

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Profile: International Entertainment