Projects
yovisto.com - web 2.0 portal
Yovisto is a Web 2.0 platform to upload, share, search, tag, and to discuss academic video
recordings. In addition to providing a traditional video search engine, yovisto enables the user
to search within the lecture videos.
Yovisto deploys innovative automated video analysis to
generate a time-dependent and textbased video index for efficient retrieval. Yovisto also provides
a platform for manually describing video content in a collaborative way: users can generate
metadata such as keywords or labels at any position within the video (collaborative time dependent
tagging). Moreover, users can start, follow, and carry on discussions at any point within the
video.
Furthermore, users are able to author and maintain wiki-pages to enrich video content
with supplementary information, such as images, hyperlinks, or text. The most important benefit
of yovisto is its content based search feature, which allows the efficient search of yovisto's
database (currently containing one of the largest collection of academic recordings) and enables
the users effectively to find the information they are looking for.
Yovisto website:
www.yovisto.com
REPLAY @ Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology Zurich
REPLAY is an open source solution to manage the complete
life cycle of audiovisual recordings in an automated way. It
also provides comprehensive functionalities for existing audiovisual
archives, repositories or collections. Therefore,
REPLAY is an appropriate solution not just for academia, but
also for institutions and companies producing, hosting, managing
and allocating audiovisual content.
Key features:
- Automated capture of audio, video, and content
- Isochronic indexation, based on OCR or audio
- Support for long-term archival
- Provides various management user interfaces
- Devoted to standards and accepted formats
- Open source (GNU LGPL)
In cooperation with the Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology Zurich we have developed the OpenSource Multimedia Portal System REPLAY.
REPLAY project website:
www.replay.ethz.ch
Opencast Project
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 without technology getting in the way.
>>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 from instructors
and institutions around the world.
The Opencast community is a collaboration of higher education institutions working together to explore, define, and document podcasting best practices and technologies.
Through blogs and email lists, the community offers guidance and information to help others
choose the best approach for delivering rich media online.
The Opencast Project is managed and organized by
ETH-Zürich and
University of California, Berkeley.
We are member and contributor for the opencast project.
Opencast website:
www.opencastproject.org
Lecture2Go @ University Hamburg
University Hamburg is using the system Lecture2Go for mobile recording of lectures and conference talks.
Yovisto is supporter and consultant to establish a scaleable post-processing of digital
lectures produced by Lecture2Go with REPLAY.
