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Opencast and Steeple
Opencast is an initiative led by higher education institutions to improve the capture, management, and distribution of audiovisual content for education. It fosters collaboration within the academic community through projects like Opencast Matterhorn, providing tools and best practices for media management. The community aims to reduce costs, enhance access to resources, and support innovation in educational media delivery.
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- 1. Opencast, the Opencast Community, andOpencast Matterhorn Sally Hanford: The University of Nottingham (UK) Björn Haßler : University of Cambridge (UK) Olaf A. Schulte: ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
- 2. Co-ordination with national initiatives: TheUK based Steeple Projects
- 3. Benefits and challengesof participating in an international collaborative project
- 4. • Opencast • OpencastCommunity • Opencast Matterhorn • Steeple Projects
- 5. Opencast… …is an initiativedriven by higher education institutions to empower… • … institutions to make informed choices about capture, processing, and distribution infrastructure for audio/video, • … faculty to teach courses and share knowledge with their students and learners worldwide, • … students to access and shape media into a more meaningful tool for learning, • … everyone to easily find and engage with educational video, audio, and other rich media...
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- 7. Opencast Community Federation ofinstitutions and people • attracted to the Opencast idea • exchanging ideas, experience, and knowledge • committed to building an Open Source solution putting into effect the OC idea • opencastproject.org
- 8. Mission statement The Opencastcommunity is a collaboration of: individuals, HE institutions & organisations working together to: explore, develop, define & document….
- 9. ..best practices andtechnologies for management of audiovisual content in academia. The Opencast community also supports: community-driven projects to solve common issues in management of academic audiovisual content. These projects include: open source software development, such as Matterhorn
- 10. Matterhorn <recording from Olaf> Phase1 Preparations / team building / “Iteration 0” (July 2009) Phase 2 Kick Off (July 2009 – Sept 2009); Zurich Meeting Phase 3 Matterhorn 0.5 (January 2010) Phase 4 Matterhorn 1.0 (July 2010)
- 12. Opencast Matterhorn consortium •UC Berkeley • University of Nebraska-Lincoln • Northwestern University • Indiana University • University of Saskatchewan • University of Toronto • ETH Zürich • University of Osnabrück • Cambridge University • University of Vigo • University of Catalonia • University of Copenhagen • Jozef Stefan Institute
- 13. Opencast players • OpencastCommunity • Opencast Matterhorn • Base Camps - Saskatchewan (Canada) - Nebraska Lincoln (US) - Vigo (Spain) - Tel Aviv (Israel) - Loughborough (UK) • Steeple Projects • Participatory Culture Foundation • Bay Area Video Coalition • OSS Watch • University of Nottingham • Columbia University • Tel Aviv University
- 14. Activities • Opencast Community -Resource centre - Mailing list • Opencast Projects - Miro / Open U - Open Video - Metadata / syndication • Opencast Matterhorn • Steeple & Steeple-BR – Workshops, assemblies & conferences for UK HE community – Mailing list, webinars – Dissemination of best practices in institutional podcasting Matterhorn UK Base Camp
- 22. ...Co-ordination with national initiatives– The UK Steeple Projects
- 23. Steeple & Steeple-BR… •The projects main concerns are: – Reducing costs for media processing and media management – Making it easier to deliver media into channels important to the institution, such as iTunesU and the web portal – Supporting and documenting adoption of best practice for sustainability of the architecture and to ensure longevity of institutional investments
- 24. Steeple… • Scoping, requirements,use cases • Policies, processes, workflows • Requirements for public access to video/audio • Private access to video/audio via LMS or VLE • Encoding engines • Service management • Training and support • Evaluation and dissemination
- 25. Steeple… • Integration ofthe encoding engines and creation of encoding workflows • Further development work to an online database to monitor and track processes • Creation of a demonstrator web based delivery system for institutional podcasts • Documenting of activities
- 31. Loughborough University Steeple… UKMatterhorn Base camp
- 32. Opportunities to participate– Weekly meetings
- 33. Opportunities to participate- UI testing
- 34. Opportunities to participate –JIRA (follow project progress / bugs / issues)
- 35. Opportunities to participate –Steeple workshops
- 36. Other opportunities toparticipate • Subscribe to Opencast/Matterhorn/Steeple mail list • Contribute to project Wikis • Download and try Matterhorn – or contact a base camp to try it • UK based people – attend a Steeple workshop • Developers – checkout the codebase from svn repository
- 37. Challenges and benefitsof participation Challenges • Time differences • Physical distance • Sometimes technically challenging Benefits • Widen your view of the use of video – it’s global • Keep on top of most recent developments • Community of experts
- 38. Steeple links WWW • http://steeple.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ •http://steeple.posterous.com/ (blog) Lists • https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/STEEPLE Wiki • http://www.steeple.org.uk/
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