Alpha Implementers 2008.03.07

Attendee Institutions and Consortia:

Atlantic Cape Community College
Georgian Court University
Middlesex County College
Montclair State University
New Jersey Digital Highway
NJEDge.Net
Passaic Valley Regional High School
Rutgers University
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
Virtual Academic Library Environment (VALE)
William Paterson University

Attendees:

Grace Agnew, Rutgers
Isaiah Beard, Rutgers
Ruth Bogan, Georgian Court
Judy Cohn, UMDNJ
Matthew Conforth, Passaic Valley HS
Erika Gorder, Rutgers
Robert Harris, WPUNJ
Jane Hutchison, WPUNJ
Patricia Kubaska, ACCC
Linda Langschied, NJDH/Rutgers
Mary Mallery, MSU
Mike Maloney, Middlesex CC
Greg Mattison, WPUNJ
Tom Minnefor, UMDNG
Tom Nemeth, WPUNJ
Bob Pescinski, Goergian Court
Sheri Prupis, NJEDge
Brian Richards, Middlesex CC
Joe Russo, MSU
Grant Wilinski, ACCC

Introductions

Attendees introduce themselves and explain what initially interested them in NJVid.

Overview of Grant - Sandie Miller

Explained in-depth in narrative grant proposal "NJVid: New Jersey Video Portal"

Three Types of Collections:

First collection - locally owned collections
Second collection - commercial videos
Third collection - lectures on demand

NJVid Workflow and Specifications

Fedora server / Workflow Management System / Shibboleth-enabled authentication three collection types NJVid
Video Specifications
Attaching Metadata
NJVid Conceptual and Storage Architecture

DISCUSSION

• Access & authentication - would every institution go through the same A&A process or would it differ depending on local institution's local process. Differs according to local process, but would need some kind of standards and policies that work with Shibboleth.
• Video specifications and standards - Quicktime and Flash. There was a question on what to do with current .wmv files at alpha implementers' locations. NJVid needs to work with certain input types, DVD-pro, avi, etc. and vhs can be converted. Further discussion required on this.
• Role of commercial video like FMG - right now, FMG authenticates locally, but then goes to the FMG server in order to use their interface. Would this work with NJVid's interface? Or would it continue to go to the FMG server? What problems might this present?
• Workflow Management System - very metadata oriented and could be complicated for simpler use. Is there a minimum entry level of metadata in order for this to work?

Survey Results, (survey of alpha implementers) - Grace Agnew

DISCUSSION

• How are we going to avoid duplication of lectures on demand & podcasts locally?
• Commercial video - consortium pricing, economy of scale
• Consortium pricing - can it include K-12 members of NJEDge? K-12 would need to purchase through VALE or NJEDge the rights to that video. Or they could purchase on their own and simply store it through NJEDge.
• Copyright concerns - who owns what, who can use what -- to be addressed by workgroup

Alpha implementers expectations - Sandie Miller

Partners in implementation of video portal and Shibboleth authentication process
• 2-4 key faculty members / librarians use video portal and assess it - grow this by 50% each year
• Also - market NJVid within alpha implementers organization
• Measure of use for grant -- % of those using NJVid
• 90% of Alpha Implementers satisfied with NJVid usage by end of grant

DISCUSSIONS:

• $ -- Understanding ongoing costs
• Primarily hardware and staff is covered by the grant
• Grant relies on Use of volunteers
• Sustainability - business plan to be established - to be addressed by workgroup

Equipment and staff - mostly paid for by grant. However, there are exceptions where the equipment or staff isn't covered by the grant (e.g. 16 mm film needs to be converted to digital prior to ingestion into NJVid.

Who will upload? Rutgers' staff -- $ for Rutgers students provided for by grant. Clarification of who is doing what part of the grant work for alpha implementers - not necessarily part of the Alpha Implementers workgroups, but aligned with it.

Timeline:

Commons ready summer 08
Alpha implementers to upload their content - Fall 08
Commercial videos within year
Lecture on Demand in year 2

Review of Website

Website demonstration. Workspace includes blog and wiki for workgroup discussions.

Workgroups

See Documents page of the website for the roster of workgroups.

Collections:

Commercial:

Brian Richards (CHAIR) Jane Hutchison Jane Sloan Judy Cohn

Locally Owned:

The question was raised as to what metatags would be needed, how will it be searched? Grace Agnew responded that we will have to pay attention to the end user experience to help determine this.

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