Instructional Audio/Video Resources Comparison
Resource
Mediabase
Shared
Shelf
Kaltura
Media
Gallery
Functionality
Collab
PermaIntegration
link
No
Yes
Import/
Export
No
Batch
Upload
No
Rich
Metadata
Yes
Define
Metadata
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Advanced
Search
No
Customize
UI
No
Access
UVa,Pub,Priv
Yes
Yes
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UVa,Pub2
No3
No
No
Course,Pub
SHANTI Mediabase
Can put links into Collab site. Links should work regardless of access permissions because
same UVa authentication is used.
If content is restricted to a group, then the list of student computing IDs need to be added
to the group in Mediabase.
At minimum you need to specify a title for an item after uploading it. But there is a rich set
of metadata fields in this tool. It’s not worth entering any metadata in the upload dialog as
this is not saved for use when searching within Mediabase.
Supports the inclusion of transcripts for audio.
Issue:
Students must log into Mediabase so that accounts are created before you can add them to
a group.
Shared Shelf
This application integrates smoothly with ARTstor, http://www.artstor.org/index.shtml .
Contact the Library administrator, Ann Burns (924-6606, arb5w@virginia.edu), for
additional information or assistance.
You define a project to indicate the metadata fields you want, indices, cataloguing screens,
etc. Then you manage content in Shared Shelf and publish it to a collection in ARTstor.
Students access the content in ARTstor or Shared Shelf Commons.2
Could support the inclusion of a transcript by defining a field for it in the project.
To use the content within UVaCollab, you will need to go into ARTstor and right click on
each item to “Generate URL” and copy/paste the URL to a resource or document in Collab.
The URL takes the user back to ARTstor, which may require authentication, and then
displays the viewer that contains the metadata and a link to play the video.
If you pull up the ARTstor image viewer page for the video and select the video clip feature,
then a new window opens to play the video. If you copy that URL (e.g. something that looks
like similar to this http://kts.artstor.org/service/get_player/?entry_id=0_u9976fwn ) then
you can paste it into the UVaCollab Lesson tool and create an embedded experience to the
video without the metadata.
Optional User Interfaces:
1. If you don’t want to use UVaCollab, then Shared Shelf content will work in either Omeka
or Drupal via plugins for those applications.
2. Shared Shelf has an API that would allow you to write your own scripts to access your
content and use it in your preferred application.
Kaltura Media Gallery
This is a tool within UVaCollab that provides a way for displaying audio and video content.
Plus you can clip/trim the videos from within KMG. Only three metadata fields exist: title,
tags, description. You group content into collections.
Edit the details of a video clip to:
 Set it world readable.
 Set publicly viewable to other members of the course site (true by default).
 Set the content usable in other Sakai content.
 Set the content editable (true by default).
Only administrative cataloging data entry screens may be customized to specify the
order/layout of fields on the form.
2 Publishing content to ARTstor Shared Shelf Commons makes content publicly accessible,
but content may have copyright that needs to be specified or acknowledged.
3 If item is public (world readable), then embed code (not URL) is available.
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