Speaker
Mr
Jeremy Herr
(University of Michigan)
Description
Large scientific collaborations as well as universities have a growing need for
multimedia archiving of meetings and courses. Collaborations need to disseminate
training and news to their wide-ranging members, and universities seek to provide
their students with more useful studying tools. The University of Michigan ATLAS
Collaboratory Project has been involved in the recording and archiving of multimedia
lectures since 1999. Our software and hardware architecture has been used to record
events for CERN, ATLAS, many units inside the University of Michigan, Fermilab, the
American Physical Society and the Int’l Conference on Systems Biology at Harvard.
Until 2006 our group functioned primarily as a tiny research/development team with
special commitments to the archiving of certain ATLAS events. In 2006 we formed the
MScribe project, using a larger scale, highly automated recording system to record
and archive eight University courses in a wide array of subjects. Several robotic
carts are wheeled around campus by unskilled student helpers to automatically capture
and post to the Web audio, video, slides and chalkboard images. The advances the
MScribe project has made in automation of these processes, including a robotic camera
operator and automated video processing, are now being used to record ATLAS
Collaboration events, making them available more quickly than before and enabling the
recording of more events.
Author
Mr
Jeremy Herr
(University of Michigan)
