Video Active Presentation

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Video Active Presentation
fiatifta.dk Copenhagen September 2008

• Agenda
• Demonstration of videoactive.eu
• Frontend and
• Backend
• http//videoactive.eu

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Video Active

• videoactive.eu is...
• A growing collection of more than 2.600 video
  clips online already.
• Adding 25 clips each day on average(Goal more
  than 10.000 items in total).
• Covering more than 34 topics.
• Covering all television genres.
• Multilingual 10 European languages supported
• Navigation in native languages.
• All items translated to English.
• Multilingual thesaurus enables search across
  language barriers.

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Main structure

• 4 main entry points to the material
• Via the front page.
• Via key topics in European history.
• Through five pathways (written material).
• Via the search functions
• Simple search.
• Advanced search.

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Main structure

• 4 main entry points to the material
• The front page
• A random clip(pressing F5 loads a new clip).
• Most popular clips.
• Latest viewed clips.
• Related videos to random clip.
• Key topics in European History
• 34 topics
• Five pathways
• Programmes
• Technology
• Institutions
• Events
• Watching
• Search functions
• Simple search
• Advanced search

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Main structure

• 4 main entry points to the material
• The front page
• A random clip (pressing F5 will load a new clip)
• Most popular clips
• Latest viewed clips
• Related videos to random clip
• 34 Key topics in European History
• Click on one of the 34 topics and get direct
  access to clips.
• Five pathways
• Programmes
• Technology
• Institutions
• Events
• Watching
• Search functions
• Simple search
• Advanced search

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Main structure

• 4 main entry points to the material
• The front page
• A random clip (pressing F5 will load a new clip)
• Most popular clips
• Latest viewed clips
• Related videos to random clip
• Key topics in European history
• 34 topics
• Five pathways(written material)
• Programmes.
• Technology.
• Institutions.
• Events.
• Watching.
• The search functions
• Simple search
• Advanced search

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Main structure

• 4 main entry points to the material
• The front page
• A random clip (pressing F5 will load a new clip)
• Most popular clips
• Latest viewed clips
• Related videos to random clip
• Key topics in European history
• 34 topics
• Five pathways (written material)
• Programmes
• Technology
• Institutions
• Events
• Watching
• The search functions
• Simple search.
• Advanced search.
• Use speech marks to refine searches.

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Search Results

• Filters
• Use filters to refine search results.
• Wherever there's a plus () you can expand the
  filter to get more options.
• Filter only shows options within the search.

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Search Results

• Keywords (thesaurus)
• Words entered in simple or advanced search text
  fields also searches the thesaurus.
• you can use e.g. the Danish term for animal
  (dyr") and get results in any language, because
  animal is a thesaurus keyword.
• Click on keywords to narrow down the search.

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Search Results

• The items
• A mouse-over function gives you more information
  about the item
• The full title
• The title in English
• The owner.
• Click on the keyframe or title to get to the
  actual clip.

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Search Results - Items

• Two types of players Supported
• Flash Player.
• Windows Media Player.

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User Workspace

• Free registration
• Join the community.
• Save favourite items.

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Web Shop

• Web Shop
• The Archive partners present material that is
  available to buy from their web shops.

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Backend

• Item Management
• Overview of items
• Search and sorting.
• Visible / Invisible.
• Finished / Unfinished.
• Creation of new items.
• Import of metadata (from excel).
• Adding contextual information.

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Backend

• Create item
• Add metadata.
• Add thesaurus words.
• Add link to file
• Video.
• Picture.
• text.

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Backend

• Keywords
• the keywords are based on the ThesauriX platform.
• Click on the to get to narrower term.
• Thesaurus terms (keywords) are translated into 10
  European languages.

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Backend

• Adding media files
• Video files
• Windows Media.
• Flash.
• Image files.
• Written material.
• Making the clip visible / invisible to the public

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Further information

• About Video Active
• Get to know more about
• The videoactive.eu site.
• The consortium.
• The partners.
• Collaboration with other projects.
• Future plans.
• Presentations and other activities.