Opencast and Steeple

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

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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

[email protected]

[email protected]

Communication

http://opencast.jira.com/wiki/display/MH/Communication