Video as a first-class object for promoting scientific research, innovation and training

http://videolectures.net

Sebastjan Mislej, project manager, IJS, Center for Knowledge TransferDavor Orlic, IJS, Center for Knowledge Transfer

LIVE:

http://videolectures.net

• 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

TOP OF THE TOP LECTURERS

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 research2. Belief that Exchange Ideas/Share Knowledge is a

win-win combination3. Everyone who is eager for Knowledge

PHILOSOPHICAL BACKGROUNDS

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 everyoneNo commercials, no author discrimination/all fields of Science

• Aims and goalsCover all domains of Knowledge

• Current statusOn a good way in doing that

• 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

CONTENT PROVIDERS

• 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

UNIQUENESS OF THE PROJECT

• 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,

FUNTIONALITIES AND STRUCTURE

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

Contact:sebastjan.mislej@ijs.sidavor.orlic@ijs.si

Check out:http://www.ist-world.orghttp://searchpoint.ijs.sihttp://ontogen.ijs.sihttp://docatlas.ijs.si

CONCLUSION