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Talk by Fiona Carr at the PRATT and King's College London's Symposium: "Can Scholarship Show as well as Tell".
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The Place of Streaming Video in ScholarshipFiona Carr
International Licensing Editor
Email: [email protected]
Second Strand Symposium: Can Scholarship Show as Well as Tell? 27th June 2014
Overview
• About Alexander Street Press – brief intro• What’s happening with video?
– What’s it all about?– Emergence of streaming video– Major national survey in the US
• How is it being used?– Examples from ASP– Other players: FilmsOnDemand, Kanopy, BoB, JOVE
• Some challenges – How to make video work in scholarship
Alexander Street Press• Award winning vendors of streaming video, online text
and music content into academic libraries worldwide• High quality collections, single titles, DVD distribution• Head office: Alexandria, Virginia with staff worldwide• Filmakers Library and Insight Media• International Licensing Editor role
ASP Mission
• ‘Making silent voices heard’
Examples of some of the content providers we work with….
We serve 40m faculty and students in more than 30,000 institutions worldwide
Individual Faculty
Broad range of Libraries and consortia
HarvardUniversity
University of Tokyo
University of Phoenix
National U. of Singapore
ColumbiaUniversity
New YorkPublic Library
OkanaganCollege
Northumbria UniversityBritish Library
What’s happening with video today?
• Watch video– Classroom access– Web access
• Record video– Capture lectures– Conduct interviews– Film experiments
• Use video Skype – Expect to see as well as hear– Used to a media rich environment
• Rise of MOOCs and Online learning– Video key element of these
YouTube
• >1 billion unique users monthly• >6 billion hours watched monthly, up 50% in a
year• 100 hours of video are uploaded every minute• 80% of YouTube traffic comes from outside the
US• In 2011, YouTube had more than 1 trillion views
or around 140 views for every person on Earth
http://www.youtube.com/yt/press/statistics.html 4/3/2013, 5/3/2014
Not just about YouTube though….
• Huge amount of commercially produced and distributed content available for libraries
• Locally produced content, institutional repositories etc
• Growing number of consumer focused subscription services– E.g. Hulu www.hulu.com– Mission of Hulu: help people find and enjoy the
world’s premium video content when, where and how they want to find it.
– Problem: only accessible in the US at present!
Who’s talking about video?
• Example of some recent presentations:– Charleston Conference, 2013: Streaming Video in
Academic Libraries, Deg Farrelly and Jane Hutchison– NFAIS Virtual Seminar: The Emergence and Rise of
Video As a Scholarly Content Format, May 2014– BUFVC, Enhancing the learning experience with AV
content, 26 June 2014– American Library Association, Las Vegas this
weekend:• Deg and Jane are presenting at the ProQuest Day there• Video Roundtable Association: provides leadership within
the ALA on all issues related to video collections• Running its own events at ALA:
http://connect.ala.org/node/221897
US National Survey
• Who?– Deg Farrelly, Media Librarian, Arizona State University– Jane Hutchison, Associate Director, Instruction and
Research Technology
• What?– Tinyurl.com/SurveyASV - the full survey is here.
Encourage you to take a look– Snapshot of academic library streaming video
collections, expenditure, access and delivery– Preliminary report presented at Charleston
Conference 2013– Some snippets here…..
Survey response and some results
• 336 valid responses (one per institution allowed)
• 42 ARL’s• 48 US states• 6 Canadian provinces• 2 international responses – Australia and
Pakistan
Does your institution stream video?
Streaming Video in Academic Libraries, Preliminary Results from a National Survey, deg farrelly, Arizona State University; Jane Hutchison, William Patterson University, Presented in November 2013 , Charleston Conference, Charleston, South Carolina.
70 %
30%
Does your institution stream video?
Streaming Video in Academic Libraries, Preliminary Results from a National Survey, deg farrelly, Arizona State University; Jane Hutchison, William Patterson University, Presented in November 2013 , Charleston Conference, Charleston, South Carolina.
Is your library planning to stream?
Streaming Video in Academic Libraries, Preliminary Results from a National Survey, deg farrelly, Arizona State University; Jane Hutchison, William Patterson University, Presented in November 2013 , Charleston Conference, Charleston, South Carolina.
Percentage of collection hosted
Streaming Video in Academic Libraries, Preliminary Results from a National Survey, deg farrelly, Arizona State University; Jane Hutchison, William Patterson University, Presented in November 2013 , Charleston Conference, Charleston, South Carolina.
What is being used?
Until very recently…
Stuck in the cellar
Needing special equipment
Stranded on old media
• You need special equipment• You can’t find what you’re looking for—no random access.• You can’t speed-read or speed-browse—if it’s a 2-hour
video, you have to spend 2 hours finding out what’s on it.• You can’t isolate the primary sources—they’re mixed
together with the secondary content.• You can’t cite moments within the video—you can only
cite the title of the video.• You can’t link to moments within the video—you can only
link to the video title.• Most are not available online.• Most are for entertainment, not scholarly research.• Licenses are overly restrictive.
Problems with video in scholarship
Training Video
Documentaries
Entertainment
Schools Higher Ed. Professional
Interviews
Lectures
Amateur Clips
Raw footage
Research & Learning
Movies & Television
Casual Use
Demonstrations
Works across disciplines
• Video helps us understand, judge, evaluate our work• Unique ability of the medium captures the visual, makes it teachable and researchable• Visual image and audio can be immensely powerful especially in key humanities and social science fields
• Will show you a few examples of where video works at ASP in the humanities….
Art
Film
Film
History and newsreels
Other players in video for academia
• Kanopy• Films on Demand/Films Media Group• Box of Broadcasts
– BUFVC and JISC initiative
• JOVE
Business models
• Very similar to other products for scholars – journals, ebooks etc
• Subscription– Collections – Individual title sale
• Outright Purchase– Not offered by all vendors
• Emergence of Patron Driven and Evidence Based Acquisition models
• ASP works with all of these models
Challenges – how to make video succeed in scholarship?
The Challenges
1. Digitization2. Quality 3. Searchability4. Speed of Comprehension5. Analysis and annotation6. Integration - Cataloging7. Sharing – ability to cite, embed8. Mobile Access9. Preservation
1. Digitization
2. Quality
3. Searchability
3. Indexing
El Agheila, Africa
Near Tobruk
People
Places
Date
NarrativeText
3/17/1941
Field Marshall Erwin Rommel
Summer 1942
Field Marshall Erwin Rommel
In 1941 Rommel began his North African Campaign.
His first actions included reviewing 88mm flak guns
AfricanCoast
Events North African Campaign, 1941-1943
Commentary
Type
Followed by an audit of his troops
“This was a crucial time…”
“The movement Westwards would ultimately…”
Mark Grimsby
Interview Map
4. Speed of comprehension…
30 minutes of news12 double-spaced pages 5 minutes to read in depth2 minutes to scan
=
High Definition, Variable Bit Player for top quality streaming
Custom Clip Creation tool used by more than 50,000 academics
Searchable, synchronous transcripts manually re-keyed to 99.95% accuracy
Restrict permissions
Embedlinksin LearningSystems
6. Library Integration
Authentication Tools
Counter-4 compliantUsage Stats
Multi-languageInterface
6. Library Integration
• E-mail• Embed in courses• Share • Cite• Save
7. Sharing
CoursewareSyllabi
Course ReservesResearch papers
8. Tablet and Mobile Access
9. Preservation
• 90% of American Silent Films before 1929 are lost
• 50% of all American Films with sound before 1950 are lost
• Documentaries and shorts are even more likely to suffer from neglect
• ASP works with many of its partners across video and text to help preserve content
Concluding comments
• Told you a bit about ASP – tried to avoid the sales pitch!
• Lot of buzz about video in scholarship right now• Anticipated growth in use of video• How video works• The major players and models available• Challenges of making video work
Thank-you! Any questions?