Opencast Matterhorn
Michelle Ziegmann (UC Berkeley)
Olaf A. Schulte (ETH Zurich)
Academic video - genres
• Lecture recording
• Event recording
• User-generated content
• Third-party content
• Films, digitization results
• Miscellaneous
Academic video - quantities
• Lecture recording
• Event recording
80-90%
• User-generated content
• Third-party content
• Films, digitization results
10-20%
• Miscellaneous
5%
(ETH Zurich)
Academic video - development
• Lecture recording
• Event recording
80-90%
• User-generated content
• Third-party content
• Films, research footage etc.
10-20%
Lecture Recording
Other video
• Miscellaneous
5%
(ETH Zurich)
2005
2010
2015
2020
Video Management Systems
• Lecture capture
• Video ingest
• Processing
• Management
• Distribution
• User interface
Commercial VMS
Commercial VMS
Video Management Systems
Opencast Matterhorn
An enterprise-level, open-source
platform to support the management of
educational audio and video content
Opencast Matterhorn
With Matterhorn, an institution can:
• capture and produce lecture recordings
• manage existing video
• serve designated distribution channels
• provide user interfaces to engage students with
educational videos
• at no licensing cost (open source!)
Matterhorn is also a framework of media services, highly
configurable to meet individual institutional needs
Features
Features
• Capture Agent Specs
» Capture Agent v1.0
• Low cost, low power
• Captures audio, video and VGA
source
• Support for automated capture
• Configurable encoding specs
Features
• Capture Agent Specs
• Schedule automated recordings
∙ Manual, Recurring, iCal import
• Admin Tools
• Upload manual recordings
• Confidence monitoring
• Metadata entry and editing
• Series manager
• Workflow selection
• Add captions
• Review media
• Trim media (coming soon!)
Features
• Capture Agent Specs
• Admin Tools
• Media Processing &
Encoding
• Encoding
Low cost, low power
• Captures
Configurable
audio,
workflow
video and VGA
• source
Segmentation (scene detection)
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Support
for automated capture
Video OCR
Configurable
encoding specs
Search indexation
• Closed captioning
Features
• Capture Agent Specs
• RSS/Atom feeds
• Embeddable
• Admin Tools
• Media Processing &
Encoding
• Distribution
• Publish to YouTube/iTunes (coming
soon!)
Features
• Capture Agent Specs
• Multiple stream media player
• Thumbnail navigation
• Admin Tools
• In-video text search
• Closed captioning
• Fully accessible
• Media Processing &
Encoding
• Distribution
• Engage Tools
• Customizable interface (coming soon!)
The Opencast idea(s)
• Open (Broad-)Cast
• Open Source
• Open Technology
• Open Formats
• Open Content
• Open Exchange
Project Timeline (I)
1.0
Requirements
Gathering
Funded effort (Mellon, Hewlett)
10/2007
7/2009
4/2008
6/2009
12/2010
7/2010
Design &
Development
8/2010
Identifying
core partners
Establishing
the community
1.1
Project Timeline (II)
01/2011
Gear Shop
- OpenTrack
- Workflows
Design &
- etc.
Development
2.0
- Embed-UI
- Integration
- Flexibility
- Engage UI 2.0
-…
6/2011
Strategic
partnerships
Community
Additional
committers
Deployments
Conference
Mission statement
The Opencast community also supports community-driven
projects to solve common issues in management of
academic audiovisual content.
These projects will include open source software
development, such as Matterhorn, and research focused
projects. The Opencast Community will support these
projects through feedback and participation in
project-related activities.
Embedded development
Metadata
Licensing
Pedagocical
implications
Opencast
Matterhorn
Other projects
& communities
(Steeple Projects,
TF-Media,
DIVERSE etc.
Opencast
projects &
cooperations
Resource
exchange
Opencast
Community
Technical
discussion
Gear Shop
Opencast Community
Organizations
200+ US
organizations
Opencast Community
Organizations
Germany
UK
Canada
Spain
Switzerland
Opencast Community
Organizations
Matterhorn Project Partners
Matterhorn Project Partners
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UC Berkeley
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Northwestern University
Indiana University
• University of Saskatchewan
• University of Toronto
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ETH Zürich
University of Osnabrück
Cambridge University
University of Vigo
University of Catalonia
University of Copenhagen
Jozef Stefan Institute
Early adopters in N.A.
• U of Saskatchewan
» Focus on capture & processing end, deployed in several classrooms
• U of Nebraska-Lincoln
» Full deployment in several classrooms
• Boise State
» State-funded pilot, to evaluate alongside current commercial system
• Texas A&M – Commerce
» Pilot full deployment, no current system, hoping to integrate webcam
capture
• Rice University
» Piloting as a media library, hoping to replace current commercial system
in 1 year
Opencast Conference
More committers
Matterhorn 2.0
Full customization
Transition
to
Open
Source
Project
iTunes U / YouTube
Gear Shop: Speech-to-text
LMS integration
Gear shop:
Customized workflows
IV/2011
Authentication &
Authorization
II/2011
Engage UI 2.0
Matterhorn 1.1
Trimming media
Use cases
I/2011
First adopters
Gear shop: OpenTrack
IV/2010
Deployment scenarios
Matterhorn 1.0
III/2011
Outreach
First deployments
III/2010
Planet Opencast
Opencast Community
http://www.opencastproject.org/
Opencast Matterhorn
http://wiki.opencastproject.org/
Lists
community@opencastproject.org
matterhorn-users@opencastproject.org
matterhorn@opencastproject.org
IRC
#opencast (irc.freenode.net)
More Matterhorn?
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Wednesday, October 13th
11:30 AM - 12:20 PM
Meeting Room 304D
Anaheim Convention Center
Anaheim, CA