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Video as a first-class object for promoting scientific research, innovation and training. Sebastjan Mislej, project manager, IJS, Center for Knowledge Transfer Davor Orlic, IJS, Center for Knowledge Transfer. http://videolectures.net. LIVE:. http://videolectures.net.
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Video as a first-class object for promoting scientific research, innovation and training Sebastjan Mislej, project manager, IJS, Center for Knowledge Transfer Davor Orlic, IJS, Center for Knowledge Transfer http://videolectures.net
LIVE: http://videolectures.net
TOP OF THE TOP LECTURERS • Can you imagine attending your dream class or watching your academic dream team? • Tim Berners Lee – W3C • Noam Chomsky – linguist, MIT • Umerto Eco – writer, “The name of the Rose” • Tom Mitchell – head of ML department, CMU • Barney Pell – Powerset.com • Bernard Roth – Design Institute, Stanford many more when/where/how you want
PHILOSOPHICAL BACKGROUNDS Questions we are posing ourselves every day: 1. What is truly important today? 2. Why are we doing this? 3. Who is going to benefit from this? Our possible Answers: 1. Access to Knowledge / Visibility of research 2. Belief that Exchange Ideas/Share Knowledge is a win-win combination 3. Everyone who is eager for Knowledge
ABOUT US • JSI, Knowledge Technologies Department • 800 researchers from IT, physics, chemistry, maths... • Center for knowledge transfer • 14 people actively works on Videolectures.Net • Research areas of the Department: • Data Mining, Machine Learning, Text Mining, Decision Support, Semantic Web, Language Technologies • Tools: DocumentAtlas, Text Garden, Search point, Ontogen
ABOUT Videolectures.net • What is Videolectures.Net? Its an online video knowledge repository with scientific contents • Free, open, accessible for everyone No commercials, no author discrimination/all fields of Science • Aims and goals Cover all domains of Knowledge • Current status On a good way in doing that
CONTENT PROVIDERS • Lectures are coming from: • Major EU funded research projects from areas as DM, ML, SW, TM: PASCAL, SEKT, NEON, ECOLEAD, COIN, EURODICE...plus other FP5, FP6, FP7 framework programes. • Major consortium of: • high quality Universities, Xerox Parc, British Telecom, Max Planck, Fraunhofer Institute, Australian National University , Carnegie Mellon...Countries from Europe, Ukraine,USA, Taiwan, Australia to Brazil. • Until present day all videos recorded/processed/sync plus software and techniques developed by our team
UNIQUENESS OF THE PROJECT • Content editorial selection via different means (conference chairs, research projects, etc. ) • Additional Value of related lectures via other techniques such as ML, DM, TM, SW • Backbone in major EU research projects, labs, Universities • Publicly funded = Publicly Available = Open access = No passes/Locked doors
FUNTIONALITIES AND STRUCTURE • General: • Streaming, Synchronisations, Uploading, Categorisation, Download, Related videos, Podcasts, Academic Community Building • Lecturer: • Self Content management, Class Course building, Reference materials, scientific papers • Viewer: • Direct access to lecturer, Comments, Content download, Self Course building,
TECH INFO • Formats we are using • H.264, FLV, WMV, MP4, OGG... • Standards - Dublin Core, Learning Objects Metadata • Data structure – Cerif(Common European Research Information Format) • Developed in DJANGO - Python Web framework
TECH AND USER SIDE IMPROVEMENTS • New services.... • Online synchronisation • Upload • Course builder • New various features/technologies (dynamic extraction , visualization , Cyc Europe, etc.) • Video presentation breakdown and scene/content description • Intelligent search using video stream mining techniques • Personalization by lecturer • Covering other domains: Environment, Medicine, Law, Humanities, Nanotechnologies
Problems we are facing in relation to coordination and networking • Standardization on the level of formats, text contents, etc. • Multilingualism • IPR between organizations • ...
FUTURE • Free and open access to various high quality content to everyone • Wider Network of high quality content providers (Universities, Research institutes and centers, other knowledge hubs) • Becoming a reference site • Cooperation with others from the field
CONCLUSION Contact: sebastjan.mislej@ijs.si davor.orlic@ijs.si Check out: http://www.ist-world.org http://searchpoint.ijs.si http://ontogen.ijs.si http://docatlas.ijs.si