Web Workshop

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Web Workshop

• Maurice Farmer
• Web Manager Business School
• Chair, Web User Panel

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Whats a Web Workshop?

• Share ideas
• Learn new things
• Help each other
• -gtCreate a community

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Moving pictures on the webThe past, present and
future

• Tom Johnson
• Faculty Multimedia Manager, Natural Sciences

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Video and the web

• A variety of formats are available

Real Media Dependent on downloading RealPlayer
software
Windows Media Wide user base but difficulties for
playback and third party software needed for
non-Windows machines
QuickTime Already installed on all Apple machines
but download required for other platforms
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Adobe Flash

• Brief history
• Developed by Macromedia and first released in
  1996
• 1999 100,000,000 installations and included
  with IE5
• 2002 Included in all popular browsers and
  Windows XP standard install
• 2005 Bought by Adobe, YouTube launches
• 95 of web users able to display Flash content
• Advantages
• Available for all platforms, totally
  cross-browser compatible
• Advanced multimedia functionality (video since
  version 6)
• Inbuilt programming language (ActionScript)
• Ability to include overlays, animations,
  database and XML functionality

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Statistics
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Use of Flash
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Use of Flash
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Imperial College

• Goals
• Deliver video across Imperial sites in a
  standard format
• Branded and centrally hosted area for video
  content
• Use of Web 2.0 functionality and interaction
  with popular sites
• Detailed statistics
• Where will content go?
• Embedded in College CMS pages
• Central video area
• RSS feed

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Imperials solution
Embedded Flash player
List of video tags
Video information
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The player
Video window
Fullscreen link
Play/Pause
Progress bar
Volume control
Menu
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Player menu
Video information
Links menu
Related video carousel
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Links menu
Related link
Sharing options
Video tags
RSS feed
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How does it work?
MySQL database
XML feed
Player
RSS feed
Server
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The future

• Developments
• Flash streaming server
• General media player
• Live stream player
• Improved captions including XML driven
  annotations
• Embeddable videos for non-Imperial sites
• Personalised player
• Interactive slides
• Any questions?

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What next?

• Todays slides will be on the Webguide
• Next Workshop in October
• How to improve the WebGuide? Email suggestions
  to m.farmer_at_imperial.ac.uk