User Needs and Project Plans for Library-Managed Media Assets

User Needs and Project Plans for Library-Managed Media Assets Jon Dunn, Director of Library Technologies and Digital Libraries, Indiana University Mark Notess, Development Manager in the Digital Library Program, Indiana University

Outline
Project background
User needs
Accomplishments and current activities
Invitation, feedback, discussion
12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16

Project Background
Part 1

Open source digital music library system
Used at a dozen institutions, mainly for streaming audio course reserves
@IU, current version online since 2005, now with ~20,000 digitized albums ; in heavy daily use

What’s in the box
Includes
Server software
Client construction kits for Windows and Mac
Sample content: 2 recordings and scores
Various utilities for authentication, authorization & encoding
Web applications for audio playback & authorization mgmt
Just add
A Linux/Unix server
MySQL, Apple Darwin SS, Java, Quicktime, Perl, Tomcat, Apache
Your content
Nutrition Facts Open source BSD license Album- not track-based Online access to streaming audio and scanned score images Flexible access control Teaching & learning tools for annotation & analysis See variations.sourceforge.net for more information.

Variations: Pedagogical Tools 12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16

Variations on Video
Initial planning grant, Aug 2010 – Jan 2011 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services
IU & Northwestern are lead institutions
Multi-institutional collaboration on functional and technical requirements
Full implementation grant proposal submitted to IMLS in Feb 2011
Add online video access capabilities to Variations, providing equivalent access, annotation, and analysis tools to support teaching and learning. 12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16

Motivators for Variations on Video
Demand from Variations implementers
Increased audio/video demand for teaching, learning, and research
IU Media Preservation Initiative
IU IT strategic plan: Empowering People
History of involvement in open and community source software
Desire to create a sustainable foundation for Variations development and maintenance

Variations on Video: Scope
Access to managed collections
Video, audio
Focus on libraries, archives, [museums]
Research, teaching, and learning use
Variety of access control requirements
Integration with preservation repository services
Ad-hoc faculty/student uploads 
Classroom capture 
Live streaming 
Working digital assets – media production 

Variations on Video: Content Video digitized from library collections Files with purchased or licensed streaming rights University produced video Archival collections Faculty-produced video Feature Films Documentaries TV shows Live Performances Lecture Series Field Recordings Research- related Video 12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16

Current (Partial) Solutions
Media servers
Adobe, Real, Apple, Microsoft, Wowza, etc.
Digital asset management systems
OpenText/Artesia, NetXposure, etc.
Classroom capture solutions
Echo360, Mediasite, Opencast Matterhorn, etc.
Course management systems
Sakai, Blackboard, Moodle
Online video platforms
Kaltura
Digital library and institutional repositories
Fedora, DSpace, ContentDM, etc.

Gaps in Current Video Solutions
Access control
Integration with library digitization workflows
Integration with library systems and metadata
Long-term preservation
Integration with course management systems
Player functionality
Precision
Bookmarks, playlists

User Needs
Part 2

Overview
Proxied
“ A Survey of Video Streaming Practice and Aspirations in Academic Libraries ” (Spring 2010)
Usage Scenarios (Fall 2011)
Direct
Observations and Interviews of faculty at IU (Fall 2011)
Diary study (Summer 2011)
12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16 User Designer Proxy

Survey Administration
Survey conducted online April 29 - June 5, 2010
Invitations sent to various listservs.
Approximately 150 respondents completed the survey, though most questions were optional so response numbers vary
Of these, ~90 reported currently streaming video

What method do you use to restrict access to your streaming video? Check all that apply (N=91) Other : Some materials are open, some are not; on-campus only; it depends….

What is important in a video streaming solution? (The following selected answers show highest ‘must have’ responses) Must Have Would Like Not Sure Don’t Need Users can adjust playback location precisely (within a second of the desired location) 48 55 22 5 Users can mark a particular location in a video for future immediate access (bookmarking) 33 73 17 9 Users can create a playlist of segments from different videos for future reference 27 77 15 12 Videos can be accompanied by transcripts 28 70 22 10 Video content can be delivered to mobile devices 21 70 30 11

What is important in a video streaming solution? (The following selected answers show highest ‘don’t need’ responses) Must Have Would Like Not Sure Don’t Need Video content can be integrated into a discussion forum or chat tool for group discussion 5 80 32 15 Users can share textual annotations with other users 4 76 30 20 Video content can be integrated into an online quiz/test tool 6 68 35 21 Video marking, annotation, playlists, and segmenting can be accomplished on mobile devices 3 64 43 21

Interactive, end-user features wanted in a video streaming solution
Clips can be downloaded for use in other applications
Closed and Soft Captioning
Search by indexed transcript
Tools for creating learning objects for integration into online classes
Re-purposing of content for student use (annotation, bookmarking, remixing)
Remote Access
Statistics on use (overall, by school, by staff member)
(open responses categorized by topic, ranked highest to lowest by count)

Usage Scenarios
16 scenarios from 7 institutions
Scenario generation library-led
Scenarios presented & discussed at initial Variations on Video project participant meeting
Scenarios formed the basis for the product concept

Usage Scenario Example
Variations on Video Usage Scenario : Faculty using short clips from DVDs in course lecture
Source : Scott Britton and Hong Ma, University of Miami
Summary: A Film Studies instructor teaches using video clips from library-owned DVDs. The library Reserves department captures the clips into a standard format, applies metadata or imports it from the DVD, MARC record or reliable websites, creates high and low resolution versions, and places them in a course “video library” for use by the faculty member and students enrolled in the course. Each video clip can be searched using the metadata created by the library or added for the course by the instructor. A thumbnail of each clip in the course library makes browsing easier. Students access the course library using their university account information (CAS authentication). The system also can be a building block integrated with Learning Environment like Blackboard or Sakai.
[Detailed role descriptions follow]

Variations on Video Usage Scenario : VoV playing library-licensed video
…
Users: Film Studies instructor (Fran), Reserves staff (Ray), student (Sue)
Fran’s view: Fran finds video content in a lot of places, but a smooth lecture requires having them all in one place. Rather than link out to online videos wherever they might be, she takes the URL for the video and adds it to a VoV wrapper or shell. She creates some metadata for the wrapper so that she and her students can use it, and adds it to her course. Combining these videos with ones downloaded from the library’s DVD collection, Fran has a large set of videos that display the same way during her class. She often marks up a clip to identify elements she wants her students to notice. She sometimes asks students to mark up a video and export those annotations to share with the rest of the class.
…

Variations on Video Usage Scenario : Music Conducting Styles
Summary: The School of Music records students conducting so they can review themselves. Students often view other students’ tapes for comparison. Some videos are shown in class for general discussion. Students and faculty can watch two videos side-by-side, add comments and comment on other’s comments.
Sam’s view (student): Sam records himself conducting … He goes to his video and sees that Ira provided some private comments. A few days later, he gets a VoV email saying that someone has commented on his video. … He adds a response to one of the comments, which includes a thumbnail and link to another video that is compared with his. He opens both his video and the other student’s video and watches them together, pausing and replaying both at the same time using linked controls, and sometimes just controlling just one video or the other. Sam adds a new comment on the other video, and responds to some comments already posted there.

Other CMS Mentions in Scenarios
Faculty-defined playlist of streaming clips can be shared w/students and annotated by them.
Faculty-requested film digitizations automatically show up for students in CMS when ingest is completed.

Faculty Interviews & Observations
Interviewed 11 faculty or staff at IU who use video materials in teaching, learning, and research
Observed 7 class sessions where video was used in the classroom
Focus was on class preparation and in-class use, but also got data on out-of-class use by students

Digression Question
To what extent does Sakai want to help instructors in the classroom ?
with preparation of materials?
with delivery of materials?
with between & within navigation?
with display of annotations and callouts during presentation?
If Sakai is not interested in this space, who is, and how does Sakai integrate?
Integration benefits: fewer places to look; reduced file-schlepping; integration with participation metrics, discussion forum, chat, quiz, assignments, syllabus, etc.

Some Sakai-Related Needs from Faculty
Make all clips/videos available through course management system
Leverage authentication & authorization
Copies of full resources available in CMS allows instructor to show shorter clips in class because students can reference the longer resources outside of class; this leaves more time for in-class discussion as well
Single point of access
May 26, 2011 Scott D. Bacon

More Sakai-Related Needs from Faculty
Students need to see videos online, add comments in a forum-type area, add excerpt examples of their own, add their input and expertise to the course
In forums, students open up more if talking to peers rather than to professor
CMS supports tailoring of instructions and assignments by level (graduate vs. undergraduate) through assignment to groups
Would like a way to add metadata and annotations
Tracking clips viewed (which, how many, what portions)
Clips hosted on Oncourse for pre-determined amount of time so students can have access until they are quizzed or tested on that resource
May 26, 2011 Scott D. Bacon

Diary Study
Will have students record their music discovery and access events during the day (video or audio)
At end of week, use data as basis for an interview
Given the growing comprehensiveness of resources such as YouTube and the power of Google for discovery, how are practices around library resources shifting?
Currently in planning phase

Credits
Scott Bacon: Survey analysis, interviewing, observations

Accomplishments and Current Activities
Part 3

Project Accomplishments
Product concept developed and vetted
Advisory and test/evaluation partners defined
Proposal submitted to IMLS in Feb 2011
Will learn result in September

Product Concept: Function
Content focus: library-owned/managed video
Focus on access: desktop and mobile
Flexible access control
Accessibility, transcripts, captioning
Fine-grained control of media playback
Integration with existing metadata sources
Search and discovery interface
Easy linking and embedding into external systems
Integration with pedagogical and annotation tools

Product Concept: Target Audience
Integration with existing institutional systems vs. self-contained plug and play
Integration won out
Focus on IT-capable libraries/institutions
Others via hosting, VM images

Product Concept: Architecture

Leveraging Existing Open Source Components
Repository, metadata registry, access control
Repository actions, metadata editing
Discovery: search, browse
Metadata indexing
Video processing, transcoding, possibly player

Access
Library discovery systems
Course management systems, e.g. Sakai
Library web sites, e-reserves
Faculty and student-created web sites
Mobile platforms/apps

Project Partners and Collaborators 12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16

Questions?
www.dlib.indiana.edu/projects/vov
Jon Dunn: [email_address]
Mark Notess: [email_address]
Feedback and additional collaborators welcome!

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