Connecting Pasts and Futures: Spoken Word Services and the BBC

Connecting Pasts & Futures A Tech Talk on Spoken Word Services and the BBC Graeme West; Aidan Johnston; Ewan MacPhee Spoken Word Services Glasgow Caledonian University Andrew Gruen Northwestern University/BBC BarCamp Scotland, 2007-03-03 spokenword.ac.uk

Spoken Word 101 A brief recap. Have you been living in a cave or something? Seriously. spokenword.ac.uk

Inputs The BBC’s rich & extensive archive: authentic voices from the past And also some episodes of Fawlty Towers. spokenword.ac.uk

Inputs spokenword.ac.uk

Inputs • Leonard Cheshire, BBC, 1947 • ‘Settled Nation’, BBC,1999 spokenword.ac.uk

Inputs • Leonard Cheshire, BBC, 1947 • ‘Settled Nation’, BBC,1999 • ‘Everyman: Wilderness - The Mystery of the Bedouin’, BBC, 1979 spokenword.ac.uk

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1.5 million items of film and videotape + 750,000 radio recordings + 3 million photographs + 1.2 million commercial recordings + 4 million items of sheet music + 22 million newspaper cuttings + 550,000 document files + 20,000 rolls of microfilm + 500,000 phonetic pronunciations spokenword.ac.uk

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x 33,520,000 spokenword.ac.uk

No, We Don’t Torrent Them. (usually) spokenword.ac.uk

Unique deposit agreement with BBC Only one of its kind: only OU has comparable access to programming output spokenword.ac.uk

Rights Policy of active rights clearance; condition of BBC deposit agreement spokenword.ac.uk

End-user license “OK, it goes like this… you just accessed our materials archive, for which we are truly grateful (after all, your interest keeps us in business). However, when you accessed it, you were actually only being given the right to download or stream parts of it for educational use, not to republish or repost it.The stuff contained in the archive still belongs to us, or those third parties who have allowed us to make it available to you. By allowing you access to this material, we are “licensing” it to you.This is a lot like renting it forever… we still own it but you can use it all you want but only for educational use.What does all this mean to you? Not much. It simply gives us the right to require the following rules.We know it all sounds pretty sneaky, but bear with us… this is all normal stuff.” spokenword.ac.uk

Processes • Retrieval, processing and curation of media (audio & video) and metadata from BBC and other sources (e.g. GCU research collections) • Repository & metadata management • Building tools and processes to allow learners to take advantage of our media • Developing pedagogical principles (in collaboration with teachers & learners) to allow integration of audio & video in teaching spokenword.ac.uk

Outputs • Curated video & audio podcasts • Public (educational) access to a wide range of BBC and 3rd party content via a repository • Dynamic, search based podcasts & RSS feeds of content via Padova • Improvements to scholarly communication & dialogue (blogs, wikis and annotation) • Tools for the community, via open- sourcing and dissemination spokenword.ac.uk

Why use Video Podcasts? • Podcasts are intended to bring the curriculum “to life” by using select clips chosen from the BBC Archive • They meet the needs of more students with varying learning styles and aptitudes. • They supplement existing material and resources with a portable and remotely accessible source of information. spokenword.ac.uk

Why use Video Podcasts? • The ability to replay and review information helps to embed lessons in memory. • Asynchronous consumption allows for convenient access and multi-tasking (watching whilst taking the bus, stuyding, etc…). • Flexible curriculum pathways to encourage student participation and facilitate success. spokenword.ac.uk

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...into this! spokenword.ac.uk

Why do we do it? • Podcasts are a pre-cursor to the lecture, NOT a substitute for the lecture! • Encourages students to explore lecture themes before the lecture and after for revision purposes • Engages with students world! • Students learn in a place and time that suits them spokenword.ac.uk

How do we do it? • Lecturer selects TV/Radio programmes from the BBC’s vast archive • Spoken Word order materials from BBC Information & Archives • Lecturer reviews materials when they arrive from the BBC and plan the structure of their lecture around selected materials

How do we do it? • BBC archive material is then digitised and catalogued in our repository • Lecturer creates PowerPoint which acts as the “storyboard” for the podcast • The lecturer will then record their narration which blends in between the BBC clips spokenword.ac.uk

How do we do it? • We then marry it all together using iMovie • We then distribute this to students via VLEs, Online Repositories spokenword.ac.uk

Our history • 2003: JISC/NSF grant to GCU and NU under Digital Libraries in the Classroom; BBC deposit agreement • 2004: REPOS repository acquired from MATRIX @ MSU • 2003-5: Development of tools & continued sourcing of media • 2006-Present: Dissemination phase; integration of SW into Library spokenword.ac.uk

Our partners • Academic Technologies at Northwestern University (Evanston, IL, USA) • MATRIX at Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI, USA) • BBC Future Media and Technology • Higher Education Academy • Open source projects & communities • Fedora digital repository; Sakai VLE community, Red Hat Inc. spokenword.ac.uk

Our partners • GCU friends and partners • Other universities: Strathclyde; Glasgow; Edinburgh; Northwestern; Columbia; Bologna; LSE; Hull; Dundee • Other institutions: The Learning Exchange; ReSET Project; Glasgow Centre for Population Health • Further collaborators: Tartanpodcast (Mark Hunter); OYEZ Project (Prof. Jerry Goldman @ Northwestern) spokenword.ac.uk

Tools » Padova • Legacy ﬁnding-aid & repository product (REPOS) which has been retroﬁtted and improved • Serves a publicly-accessible repository of digital media to hundreds of learners every day • 800+ hours of content streamed (RTSP) or downloaded • Dynamic search-based RSS/Atom feeds and podcasts • Citation support (BibTex; EndNote; RIS; MODS) • License-aware (granular control over permissions) • Buzzword-compliant and shiny: AJAX effects (through Prototype & Script.aculo.us) & WP integration • Open source: GPL (once it’s tidied up) spokenword.ac.uk

Obligatory ‘Beta’ Warning New version pushed out yesterday. Might not be bullet- proof. spokenword.ac.uk

Demo: Padova spokenword.ac.uk

Infrastructure » Padova • Standing on the shoulders of giants WordPress • REPOS; BibUtils; Script.aculo.us; Server & • Runs onon RHEL servers Streaming PHP, Python, Darwin MySQL • Separation of concerns and repositories • Data stores, ﬁnding aids • Something similar to model,view, controller in OOP • Incomplete separation at present:every level with • Padova front end integrated at REPOS repository • Current work: de-coupling Padova from REPOS, taking its interface to a new repository spokenword.ac.uk

Tools » Project Pad • Synchronous media annotation in theat NU browser, developed by Academic Technologies • Embedded, time-tracked streaming audio, video or images • Server-side: Java and Python • Client side: Macro... Adobe Flash and some JavaScript • Collaborative, synchronous annotation across the network • Embeddedthrough the Plone CMS VLE or into the Sakai open-source deployed • Open source (GPL) spokenword.ac.uk

Demo: Project Pad spokenword.ac.uk

Standards spokenword.ac.uk

Standards • Metadata: XML everywheresyndication (Dublin Core; RDF; MODS; Atom & RSS formats) • Streaming: MPEG-4 Simple Proﬁle and MPEG-4/AVC for video, AAC audio • Project Pad slightly different • Browser: XHTML compliance and semantic markup striven for • Deliberately platform agnostic :D • Open philosophy spokenword.ac.uk

Going forward spokenword.ac.uk

Fedora-based architecture • FEDORA: Flexible Extensible Digital Object and Repository Architecture • Developed by Cornell U & Virginia Tech libraries • Fedora repository: multiple representations of resources; scalable; extensible • Federation:(Tomcat & McKoi) OMI-PMH • Java-based • Open source lot • We like it a whole • Applications for libraries & broadcasters... spokenword.ac.uk

The task • To build upon existing interface and usability innovations • While moving to a more ﬂexible repository structure spokenword.ac.uk

Your homework 5 Assignments spokenword.ac.uk

Sign up, sign in, drop jaw. http://www.spokenword.ac.uk Click on ‘Sign Up’ and begin listening spokenword.ac.uk

+ = Mash-up our content Take advantage of our RSS & Atom feeds Combine with Backstage data? Stay within the relevant license terms, or we’ll hit you with copyright sticks. spokenword.ac.uk

Use our content for study & research purposes Nothing says ‘A’ in a bibliography like primary content. spokenword.ac.uk

Tell your friends Blog us; link to us; podcast about us: we’re publicity junkies spokenword.ac.uk

Talk to us info@spokenword.ac.uk graeme.west@gcal.ac.uk Blog: http://www.spokenword.ac.uk/spokenwordmatters/ Brick and Mortar: Saltire Centre Level 1, GCU, G4 0BA spokenword.ac.uk

Ta. spokenword.ac.uk

Credits: Bertrand Russell photo ©BBC. Used with permission. All BBC clips copyright their respective holders and ©BBC. Used under license. ‘Whispering’ image from Jainwold Clip Art for Education - http://www.jainworld.org/general/prem/Clip% 20Art%20for%20Education/ Copyright status unknown Saltire Centre photo by Andrew Ferguson: http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/given_to_ﬂy/ 263002025/ Used with permission Slide production: Aidan Johnston, Ewan MacPhee and Graeme West The Saltire Centre spokenword.ac.uk

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