Streaming Video Resources for Teaching, Learning, and Research by DeCesare Julie A.;

Author:DeCesare, Julie A.; [DeCesare, Julie A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 1741550
Publisher: American Library Association
Published: 2014-05-05T00:00:00+00:00

Figure 3.1 Example of ARKive’s menu from its home page

The membership component, MyARKive, allows users to create playlists of content, save images and video, share, and personalize the content. ARKive’s partnerships and content producers are reputable. The research and multimedia content are of high quality and consistent. There are options to share the resources to various Web 2.0 and social media tools, but ARKive does not provide embed code.

The site is organized by species topic pages. On each species page is a text entry with facts, embedded references, citations, threats, and definitions. The text resources are easy to navigate while the video or images are playing or explored. The streamed video files are Adobe Flash, but there are options to download in QuickTime and Windows Media formats. All content—images, video, text, and audio—is hosted by ARKive’s servers. ARKive’s technical partnership was with Hewlett Packard. Specifically, HP Labs collaborated with Wildscreen Trust to design and develop ARKive as part of HP Labs’ Digital Media Systems program. HP developed a media production system for digitizing, cataloging, and tracking media assets and a media vault with storage capacity around 74 terabytes. Wildscreen Trust used commercial tools to develop the ARKive websites. The media production system digitizes media to the highest quality available without compression. The media vault is used for storage, management, transcoding, and preservation of digital media and corresponding metadata.7

As part of the overall project, ARKive is committed to preserving the media assets, which provides a high level of reliability for educators. It is helpful to know that these assets are being maintained for long-term use. The media vault is an open platform for storing and managing the high-quality media assets for preservation. A system of duplication, backup, and migration is in place, as well as services to re-encode media as preservation standards evolve over time. The encoding services provided by the media production system embed copyright information on the distributed media automatically in the form of a visual attribution to the donor and invisible information to enable tracking of the media.8

Wildscreen Trust relied on a staff of media researchers to hand catalog and create descriptive metadata regarding the content, subject, and provenance of the media. The content is verified by subject matter experts, and the cataloging structure is defined by Wildscreen in consultation with other natural history experts. Some technical metadata is captured automatically during ingest or edit of the media asset by the systems HP Labs created.9

One of the project’s technology partners is 3C Research, which supports and develops a system of Intelligent Content Based Retrieval (ICBR). ICBR’s focus is on facial and gait recognition of wildlife, which would allow multimedia and images to be cataloged automatically by an algorithm that recognizes the animal’s facial features and movements.10 With these possibilities and future technologies, ARKive has the roots to branch further into complex and interesting mobile applications, as well as to continue to develop its virtual interface, preservation, and wildlife conservation efforts.

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