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Opencast, the Opencast Community, and Opencast Matterhorn
Sally Hanford: The University of Nottingham (UK)Björn Haßler : University of Cambridge (UK)
Olaf A. Schulte: ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
Co-ordination with national initiatives:
The UK based Steeple Projects
Benefits and challenges of participating in an international
collaborative project
• Opencast
• Opencast Community
• Opencast Matterhorn
• Steeple Projects
Opencast…
…is an initiative driven 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...
Open as in...
Open(Broad)casting SourceTechnologyFormatsContentExchange
Open Video
Federation SearchabilityLegal issues
Opencast Community
Federation of institutions 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
Mission statement
The Opencast community is a collaboration of:
individuals,
HE institutions
& organisations
working together to:
explore,
develop,
define
& document….
..best practices and technologies 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
Matterhorn
<recording from Olaf>
Phase 1Preparations / team building / “Iteration 0” (July 2009)
Phase 2Kick Off (July 2009 – Sept 2009); Zurich Meeting
Phase 3Matterhorn 0.5 (January 2010)
Phase 4Matterhorn 1.0 (July 2010)
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
Opencast players
• Opencast Community• 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
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
...Co-ordination with national initiatives – The UK Steeple
Projects
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
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
Steeple…
• Integration of the 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
Loughborough University Steeple…UK Matterhorn Base camp
Opportunities to participate – Weekly meetings
Opportunities to participate - UI testing
Opportunities to participate – JIRA (follow project progress / bugs / issues)
Opportunities to participate – Steeple workshops
Other opportunities to participate
• 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
Challenges and benefits of 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
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/
Planet Opencast
WWW
http://www.opencastproject.org/
http://opencast.jira.com/wiki/
Lists
Communication
http://opencast.jira.com/wiki/display/MH/Communication