As a reference, cf. wikipedia on LMS and DAMS.
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Academic Video Management System (AVMS)
An academic video management system (AVMS) is best described as a software applications that can be used by universities to capture, produce, organize, manage, and distribute educational audio and video content in an academic environment. An AVMS can be used to manage audio and video assets, manipulate them (editing, metadata etc.), and publish media to external distribution channels or locally hosted servers. These systems focus on supporting media assets that are produced on university campuses and meant for academic proposes, such as course lectures, public lectures, and university-sponsored events.
In this context of the production of lecture recordings, an academic video management system is popularly known as a lecture capture, or course capture, system. Lecture capture can best be defined as “an umbrella term describing any technology that allows instructors to record what happens in their classrooms and make it available digitally.” (Educause, 2009) In addition to organizing and publishing video, an AVMS is also used to assist with the production of lecture recordings, manage these objects/assets, and distribute these recordings to students via the Internet.
While lecture capture services in academia have caught on fast and furiously, an AVMS implementation is not solely meant for lecture capture, but also necessary for the management and cataloging of a wide range of academic audio and video materials. This could be user-generated content (students' videos, research videos), third-party material (broadcast, learning material), or any other video academia would like to see integrated into other campus services. This could be user-generated content (students' videos, research videos), third-party material (broadcast, learning material), or any other video academia would like to see integrated into other campus services.
Given the increasing amount of audio and video, tools are needed to manage that content reliably, consistently and according to user needs. Besides lecture capture content, the installation of an AVMS can also help university technology groups automate the production of multimedia assets, integrate media services with campus information systems, and scale media capture and distribution services with reasonable production quality. Thus, the end goal of a AVMS should be to both provide quality academic videos as course-related resources, and to streamline the production and availability of media that universities intend to broadcast to the world, as well as integrate them logically with local campus services for use internally and for scholarship.
Functionalities
The following list features various functionalities from the input of media into a AVMS towards the output (usage) of audio and/or video (1).
Capture: Inserting audio and/or video objects into the system, either as files (upload, ingest) or using dedicated capture devices to record audio and/or video. Other input media can be supported, e.g. VGA or file upload.
Manage:
Manipulate: Editing objects to change their formats, duration or other characteristics.
Archive: Storing objects in a format suitable for long-term preservation.
Dissemination: Consumption of objects in various forms (RSS, player, engage UI)
Objects
Mainly audio and video (including audio), but often a THING also manages associated
- metadata,
- annotations,
- objects (references, bibliography)
- files
Goals
The goals pursued when developing or deploying a THING are manyfold; some major areas of concern are
- the automation of the workflow which allows
- scaling of the overall productivity,
- a harmonization of the workflow, thus enabling
- comparable quality and
- increased reliability. Also, THINGS especially are aiming at an
- integration with campus information systems.
Characteristics
Life cycle (JOSH):
Framework (JOSH):
Workflow (JOSH):
List of Commercial systems
Panopto, Echo360, Podcast Producer, Lectopia, Mediasite, Tegrity...
List of Open Source systems
Opencast Matterhorn, Recollect, VirtPresenter, REPLAY, PumuKit...
Other related solutions
Other resources
- Opencast in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opencast
- Opencast in Wikipedia (German): http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opencast
(1) Various THINGS offer the option of either ingesting objects beyond audio and video or distribute additional material (slides, transcripts etc.) which would ask for the objects to be referred to as multimdedia or rich media objects. However, with the focus on audio and video especially, the ...
