Federated Statewide Digital Video Repository & Streaming Fall 2010 Internet2 Member Meeting

1. Federated Statewide Digital Video Repository & StreamingFall 2010 Internet2 Member Meeting 1

2. NJ Digital Video Initiative William Paterson (VALE), Rutgers Libraries, and NJEDge were awarded a $1M IMLS Grant to provide funding for a rather unique initiative to support academic video on-demand services. 2

3. Digital Video Repository • The portal repository supports: • Learning-on-demand for K-20 educators • Licensed commercial academic videos from companies such as Films Media Group, BioMEDIA and others. • Locally owned and developed academic video • Videos searchable through metadata tags • Statewide authentication and authorization.

4. Project partners - True collaboration Digital Repository expertise Commercial Video licensing Hosting, Broadband Infrastructure and video streaming expertise Project management and budget co-ordination 4

5. Instructional Advantages of NJVID • Access to content any time, any place • Easy to construct clips from multi-videos to create learning objects • Objects are easily integrated with Blackboard, Sakai or Moodle • Online students can access the same content as classroom students 5

6. Broader Vision of NJViD • Collection driven – increase availability of digital video content for education and research • Support all learning organizations—higher ed, libraries, museums, archives, K12 schools • Protect rights of content owners and content users • Form the nucleus of a Statewide Cyber-Infrastructure for digital content management and re-use 6

7. Statewide CI – Building blocks Building Blocks of Statewide CI • What building blocks do we need? • Common structure for Authentication and Authorization • --Durable, standardized, consistent • --Restricts access for collection • management; coursework; research • --Enables collaboration: • faculty faculty • faculty student(s) • student student • university university • museum school

8. Statewide CI – Faculty Research Management Building Blocks of Statewide CI Collecting and Managing Faculty Research • Unique information • Preserved for long-term availability; audit trail • Made widely available for scholarly impact • Customized for scholarly and educational workflow • Volatile Information • Faculty may want to add, revise, remove • Usefulness often requires additional tools • SAS, SPSS, etc. • Visualization tools (Grapher, MatLab, etc.) • GIS

9. NJVID - Collections NJVid NJViD Commons Locally Owned Licensed Commercial Video Collection Learning Object Repository Authentication & Authorization Shibboleth Workflow Management System Creation & Cataloging Fedora Repository Storage & Management

10. FEDORA and FEDORA Commons • Fedora Commons • a non-profit organization funded by a four year, $4.9M grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation • to develop the organizational and technical frameworks necessary to effect revolutionary change in how scientists, scholars, museums, libraries, and educators collaborate to produce, share, and preserve their digital intellectual creations. • The Fedora platform is logically divided into four major functional areas that reflect its first principles: • repository services • preservation services • semantic services • enterprise services 10

11. FEDORA capabilities • The Digital Object • An open content model expressed as XML • Security: Provision of flexible authentication and policy enforcement using XACML for authorization, using the Sun XACML engine • (eXtensible Access Control Markup Language) • Scalability: provision of support for >10 million objects • Provides encapsulation for management and preservation • Content Recon: reuse of objects including object content being present in any number of contexts within a repository; repurposing of objects allowing dynamic content transformations to fit new presentations requirements • Identifiers: provision of persistent identifiers; unique names for all resources without respect for machine address • Relationships: support for relationships between objects • Interoperable Access: provision of interoperable access by means of a standard protocol to information about objects and for access to object content; discovery and execution of extensible service operations for digital objects 11

12. FEDORA capabilities (contd) • Repository Services • A service oriented architecture with APIs for access and management • Ontology services for expressing relationships • Messaging, and journaling services • Preservation Services • Audit trails • Versioning • Object integrity – auto checksums • Alerting 12

13. Fedora Layered Architecture Applications Middleware Svcs App. Prog. Interface Fedora Repository Data - XML Server & Storage 13

14. FEDORA Video Object Descriptive Technical Source Rights Digital Prov. Repository ID Metadata Behaviors (Disseminators) Data streams SMAP1 – StrMap (Anno.) FLV-1- download MP4 – Video stream XML-1 – transcript (opt) XACML policy (external) ARCH1- Archival master 14

15. NJVid Video ingest workflow Object XML NJVid Commons User Input (metadata) Partner Portals New Jersey Institutions Workflow Management System Video User, Collection & Preservation Svcs Fedora Repository Service Digital Object Repository (Fedora) Digital Video Master Video encoding Object Ingest

16. Features • Metadata rich indexing and cataloging of videos. • Export catalog as MARC records. • Load-balanced streaming infrastructure. • Protected web client to protect videos to prevent illegal downloads. • Ability to add new video formats in the future with minimal change in infrastructure. • Allows password-less administration and access & Statewide Federated Access using Shibboleth. • Support for Closed captioning - W3C’s (TTL-XML) and Subrip SRT formats. • Support for supplementary documents. • Create Chapter markers and creation of clipsto create learning objects in a video. 16

17. iTunesU and NJViD – A comparison 17

18. Potential applications and scenarios of use • Sports coaching. • Distance learning. • Lecture capture and annotation • Contribute videos to the Open Courseware consortium. • Performance and art training videos. • Gather feedback from students and faculty. • Archive training and webinars • Archive meetings and outreach programs 18

19. NJViD Commons We have about 104 videos in the Commons • American Labor Museum • Bergen Community College • Berkeley College • Hope Historical Society • Montclair State University • NJEDge Annual Faculty Showcase Videos • Newark Public Schools • Passaic Valley High School • Women and Youth Leadership Alliance (WAYLA) • William Paterson University of New Jersey 19

20. Commercial Videos (975 titles – Nov 1, 2010) 20

21. Commercial Videos – Prospective Vendors • Insight Media • Bullfrog • Discovery Education • Media In Education • Alexander Street • Facets • Women Make Movies • VEA • Icarus • and others…. 21

22. Commercial Videos – Advantages to Institutions • Institutions don’t necessarily need to acquire physical videos anymore • They don’t necessarily need to catalog their licensed videos since another licensing institution may have already done so within NJVid. • Students can access videos from anywhere. • Some vendors without their own portal, such as BioMedia, will be available online for the first time. • Don’t risk providing user accounts to commercial vendors. With Shibboleth we use Institution’s Enterprise Directory for access/deny decisions • This all adds up to reduced staff workload and time spent leading to savings yet providing faculty and staff educational content without worrying about technology • Annotation tool lets faculty, staff and students create learning objects and ultimately create playlists 22

23. NJTRUST NJTRUST is New Jersey’s Identity Trust Federation based on Shibboleth NJVID is the first Service Provider in the Federation NJTRUST currently has thirteen Identity Providers 23

24. NJTrust Diagram Institution A Institution A’s Shibboleth Identity Provider Enterprise Directory LDAP/AD member@insta.edu mills@insta.edu NJTRUST joe@instb.edu Institution A’s Shibboleth Identity Provider Enterprise Directory LDAP/AD member@instb.edu Institution B Shib IdP by NJEDge NJEDge Statewide LDAP Museums K12s Libraries

25. Learning on demand • Quick upload of videos from their local computer • Allows institutions to change access restrictions to their uploaded videos • Native Support for Flash and H.264 (MPEG-4) videos • Allows automatic transcoding from MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MOV, WMV using Encoding.com • Accepts content and metadata exported from lecture capture systems such as Camtasia Relay server and Echo 360. 25

26. LoD Administration hierarchy • Super Collections Manager (SCM) (Statenet level) • Manages all videos, collections and permissions • Can create ICMs SCM • Institutional Collections Manager (ICM) • Manages all videos and collections that belong to his/her institution • Can create users and assign collections to each user • Can view and delete videos by users of his institution • More than one ICM per institution permitted (eg. departmental level). • Manages Labels. ICM • Learning on Demand User • Can upload videos to assigned collections • Manage their own content. Add/delete • Can request access by going to the LoD site • ICM will have to approve access. User 26

27. LoD Authentication Labels • All videos uploaded into LoD are by default ‘private’. Video can be seen only by uploader. • Labels can be used to enable access to • Institutional role (student@institution.edu etc) --OR-- • NetIDs or UserIDs (jdoe14@institution.edu) • A Video can have multiple access labels • Applying the ‘Public’ label makes the video accessible without any authentication. • Access by private URL in the works 27

28. LoD Demo Learning on Demand Content Creation Demo 28

29. Next Release – Jan 2011 Next Release • New website that allows branding • Customizable website template for each institution. • Customized display of collections per Institution • Upload from your webcam. • Tool for creation of smart clips (annotations) Future Release - support for secure streaming to iPads and iPhone 29

30. Custom templates 30

31. Contact Us Updated version of this slide (if any) will be available at www.njvid.net/project/slides/I2FMM10.pptx George Laskaris - laskaris@njedge.net Sujay Daniel - sujay@njedge.net NJVID - New Jersey Digital Video Repository – www.njvid.net NJTrust– New Jersey Identity Trust Federation - www.njtrust.net RUCore – Rutgers University Community Object Repository FEDORA – Open Source Digital Repository – www.fedoracommons.org VALE – www.valenj.org NJEDge– www.njedge.net Shibboleth – http://shibboleth.internet2.edu 31