MetaMedia An Open Platform for Media Annotation and Sharing

1. Workshop "Online Archives: Perspectives on Networked Knowledge Spaces”, Fraunhofer Institute, November 25-26, 2002 MetaMediaAn Open Platform for Media Annotation and Sharing http://metamedia.mit.edu Dr. Kurt Fendt, Comparative Media Studies, MIT <fendt@mit.edu>

2. MetaMedia offers: • A flexible on-line environment to create, store, annotate, and share media-rich documents • MetaMedia allows:Faculty to build subject-specific mini- archives for teaching and learning • MetaMedia supports: • Educational innovation through creative use of multimedia materials Dr. Kurt Fendt, Comparative Media Studies, MIT <fendt@mit.edu>

3. disseminate exchange create annotate store explore share collaborate immerse juxtapose query hypothesize publish interpret investigate write present Dr. Kurt Fendt, Comparative Media Studies, MIT <fendt@mit.edu>

4. Background • Previous projects in the Humanities at MIT either: • stored data in proprietary formats, or • created flat web pages Common problem: - Media and metadata could not be extracted and reused • Missing resources: • to rebuild projects • to support similar approaches in different projects Dr. Kurt Fendt, Comparative Media Studies, MIT <fendt@mit.edu>

5. Vision - Separate content, presentation, and logic - Leverage existing components for new projects - Enable easy creation of new media projects - Provide upload and annotation mechanisms - Allow users at different institutions to collaborate - Build a system in which components can be exchanged - Offer flexible ways for content creation and presentation Dr. Kurt Fendt, Comparative Media Studies, MIT <fendt@mit.edu>

6. Open Standards The MetaMedia framework stores metadata in standard markup formats, such as Dublin Core and Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). Separation of Content and Presentation Storing markup in standard formats allows MetaMedia to separate media content and its presentation cleanly and simply. Extending Project Lifecycles Separating content and presentation extends each project’s lifetime, as markup can be output in XML and migrated to new software when necessary. Dr. Kurt Fendt, Comparative Media Studies, MIT <fendt@mit.edu>

7. User Collaboration Integrated permissions management allows users to add to and share materials in the repository, encouraging constructivist models of learning and research. Exchanging Content Supporting open markup standards allows related groups in Humanities Computing to exchange media and annotations, thus fostering academic collaboration within and across institutions. Room to Grow Storing content in rich markup formats form the start allows projects to grow into more sophisticated functionality without starting from scratch. Dr. Kurt Fendt, Comparative Media Studies, MIT <fendt@mit.edu>

8. Multimedia Markup Multimedia markup standards allow users to annotate images, audio, and video, making MetaMedia a cross-media repository platform. Dr. Kurt Fendt, Comparative Media Studies, MIT <fendt@mit.edu>

9. Design Considerations - Serve content to the web and ‘fat clients’ (Java applications) - Content to be exportable and importable in standard markup formats - Document-centric model - Problem: semi-structured vs. structured content • XML Markup formats: • • Dublin core: standard bibliographic data • TEI: electronic representation of printed documents • DocBook: generic electronic books • • MPEG-7: markup for images and video • RDF/Annotea: ‘post-it’ type notes • IMS/SCORM: learning objects - Collaboration and transactionality Dr. Kurt Fendt, Comparative Media Studies, MIT <fendt@mit.edu>

10. User Interface Modules - Repository viewer/sectioner - Workspace module - Workflow module - Forums • Annotation module - Multimedia essay module - Individual project user interfaces - User login/registration - User preferences - Administration pages Dr. Kurt Fendt, Comparative Media Studies, MIT <fendt@mit.edu>

11. Melville/Morrison/Stowe España de cerca Dr. Kurt Fendt, Comparative Media Studies, MIT <fendt@mit.edu>

12. The Open Knowledge Initiative™ (OKI) is defining an open and extensible architecture for learning technology specifically targeted to the needs of the higher education community. OKI provides detailed specifications for interfaces among components of a learning management environment, and open source examples of how these interfaces work. The OKI architecture is intended to be used both by commercial product vendors and by higher education product developers. It provides a stable, scalable base that supports the flexibility needed by higher education as learning technology is increasingly integrated into the education process. http://web.mit.edu/oki/ Dr. Kurt Fendt, Comparative Media Studies, MIT <fendt@mit.edu>

13. DSpace is an open source software platform that enables institutions to: • capture and describe digital works using a submission workflow module • distribute an institution's digital works over the web through a search and retrieval system • preserve digital works over the long term http://www.dspace.org/ Dr. Kurt Fendt, Comparative Media Studies, MIT <fendt@mit.edu>

14. OCW is a large-scale, Web-based electronic publishing initiative at MIT. Its goals are to: • Provide free, searchable, coherent access to MIT's course materials for educators in the non-profit sector, students, and individual learners around the world. • Create an efficient, standards-based model that other universities may emulate to publish their own course materials. http://ocw.mit.edu/ Dr. Kurt Fendt, Comparative Media Studies, MIT <fendt@mit.edu>

15. MetaMedia Projects Anthropology Foreign Languages HistoryLiterature Media Studies Music Theater Arts Dr. Kurt Fendt, Comparative Media Studies, MIT <fendt@mit.edu>