The Open Video Capture Standard - Call for Participation
In recent years the amount of digital content captured in educational institutions has grown exponentially. More and more schools equip at least some of their classes with lecture capture solutions, more and more teachers and students utilize desktop and mobile capture solutions from the convenience of home or the office, and more content is recorded by professional media teams across the campus.
In many cases, educational institutions use multiple capture solutions and the captured content ends up being stored either on individual desktops, department servers or various 3rd party solutions. This fragmented situation results in content rarely being properly cataloged and reused, redundant efforts of maintenance, ingestion, transcoding and storage invested, issues with systems interoperability, standard delivery to devices, archiving and preservation, and more. Even if the campus uses a central media management solution, the lack of standardization around video capture results in lengthy projects every time a new capture solution is adopted. Schools are progressively demanding simpler ways to plug in various capture technologies into a central solution that allows for transcoding to multiple flavors, cataloging and organizing, archiving and preservation, delivery to any device and to any destination including their LMS or their video-centric websites.
Enter the Open Video Capture Standard.
The Open Video Capture Standard was initiated by Kaltura, the leading video platform in Education, with other partners with the goal of making it simple and easy for educational institutions to centrally manage all of their captured content, in a way that is agnostic to what software/hardware they used to capture it. No more siloes, no more lengthy integration projects. Just one simple open standard interface that enables any captured content to get ingested to any central media management solution that supports it.
I Am a Video Capture Technology Company. Why Should I Join the Standard Movement?
Schools are increasingly looking for ways to consolidate and centralize their media management. By becoming part of the coalition you make it easier for schools to choose your solution. It also frees you up to focus on what you do best - capture. And finally, if you want to propose a joint solution for capture and media management you will have a pre-integrated solution to provide. In conjunction with the 1EdTech Consortium the intent is for the standard to advance with institutional, partner, support.
While I am providing capture solutions, I already offer a Video Management Solution. Why should I join the standard movement?
While both your capture solution and your management solution may be phenomenal, in reality many schools may use multiple technologies for capture and management. By becoming part of the 1EdTech Consortium, you are helping to enable "plug and play" technology, reduce the cost of implementing one-off integration solutions, and enable your clients to enjoy the benefits of your solutions while still having the flexibility to support legacy or point solutions that are using different technology.
What does the Open Video Standard Include?
The Open Video Standard is an XML interface for the ingestion of captured content. The interface supports complex flows such as:
- Capture of multiple streams simultaneously
- Offline recording and background uploading
- Metadata extraction from PPT and Keynote to support easy search for every word in the presentation
- Video editing
Once the content is ingested, it can be automatically published into the various integrated LMSs and other video consumption, management, and related systems. A rich playback experience allows the users to:
- Toggle between streams
- Organize layout
- Use images as bookmarks
- Text-based search (extracted text from PPT and Keynote)
I'm Interested what's next?
The 1EdTech Task Force working to define the 1EdTech Open Video Standard and organize 1EdTech Conformance Certification, will begin in early February 2015. If you are interested in participating in the 1EdTech Task Force that will be working on the Open Video Standard, please contact video@imsglobal.org.
About Kaltura
Kaltura's mission is to power any video experience. Provider of the world's first Open Source Online Video Platform, Kaltura simplifies the creation of video experiences, and provides tools that facilitate innovative and engaging experiences that create value. The Kaltura platform engages hundreds of millions of viewers by providing media companies with advanced video management, publishing, and monetization tools that increase their reach and monetization and simplify their video operations. Kaltura improves productivity and interaction among millions of employees by providing enterprises with powerful online video tools for boosting internal knowledge sharing, training, and collaboration, and for more effective marketing. Kaltura offers next generation learning for millions of students and teachers by providing educational institutions with disruptive online video solutions for improved teaching, learning, and increased engagement across campuses and beyond.
For more information: www.kaltura.com.
