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

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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 research 2. Belief that Exchange Ideas/Share Knowledge is a win-win combination 3. 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 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

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

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