Video as a firstclass object for promoting scientific research, innovation and training

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Video as a first-class object for promoting
scientific research, innovation and training
Sebastjan Mislej, project manager, IJS, Center
for Knowledge Transfer Davor Orlic, IJS, Center
for Knowledge Transfer
http//videolectures.net
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LIVE

• http//videolectures.net

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TOP OF THE TOP LECTURERS

• 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

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PHILOSOPHICAL BACKGROUNDS

• 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 research
• 2. Belief that Exchange Ideas/Share Knowledge is
  a win-win combination
• 3. Everyone who is eager for Knowledge

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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

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ABOUT Videolectures.net

• What is Videolectures.Net?
• Its an online video knowledge repository with
  scientific contents
• Free, open, accessible for everyone
• No commercials, no author discrimination/all
  fields of Science
• Aims and goals
• Cover all domains of Knowledge
• Current status
• On a good way in doing that ?

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CONTENT PROVIDERS

• 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/sy
  nc plus software and techniques developed by our
  team

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UNIQUENESS OF THE PROJECT

• 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

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FUNTIONALITIES AND STRUCTURE

• 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,

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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

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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

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Problems we are facing in relation to
coordination and networking

• Standardization on the level of formats, text
  contents, etc.
• Multilingualism
• IPR between organizations
• ...

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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

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CONCLUSION

• Contact
• sebastjan.mislej_at_ijs.si
• davor.orlic_at_ijs.si
• Check out
• http//www.ist-world.org
• http//searchpoint.ijs.si
• http//ontogen.ijs.si
• http//docatlas.ijs.si