1. New Jersey Digital Video Initiative 1 NJ Digital Video Initiative: NJVid Grace Agnew, Associate University Librarian for Digital Library Systems, Rutgers University Libraries Charles McMickle, Director of Technical Services, NJEDge.Net

2. New Jersey Digital Video Initiative 2 NJ Digital Video Initiative Growing importance of on-demand video in online education is now widely recognized Various Library consortia have identified the need to provide video resources and services statewide as an important strategic objective William Paterson, Rutgers Libraries, and NJEDge are partnering on a $1M IMLS Grant that provides funding for such an initiative

3. New Jersey Digital Video Initiative 3 Grant partners

4. New Jersey Digital Video Initiative 4 NJVid The portal repository will support: “Lectures-on-Demand” with a clickable “table of contents” for K-20 educators Licensed commercial academic videos from companies like Films Media Group Locally owned and developed academic video Videos searchable through metadata tags VoDcasting and Podcasting delivery options Statewide authentication and authorization

5. New Jersey Digital Video Initiative 5 Instructional Advantages of VoD Access to content any time, any place Easily construct clips to meet instructional needs Playlists easily integrated with Blackboard/WebCT More titles can be purchased with digital delivery rights leveraging economies of scale Online students can access the same content as classroom students Increased bandwidth and infrastructure is now stable enough to provide quality video-on-demand

6. New Jersey Digital Video Initiative 6 IdM is Key for NJVid Service may depend upon: Institution you are from Role (faculty, staff, student) Enrollment in specific course One server needs to be able to verify this information for members of many institutions Requires “federated identity”

7. New Jersey Digital Video Initiative 7 Shibboleth NJVid grant specified Shibboleth Technology for federated authentication and authorization; which depends upon identity/identifiers and directory services Allows a common server to authenticate users based on an institution’s own IdM and finds roles and attributes to make authorization decisions Maintain user privacy (temp opaque ids)