The Adaptive Digital Publishing Engine (TADPOLE) uses an Adaptive Media Element (AME) to make learning resources available across multiple devices. An AME contains media files like videos along with metadata, allowing a single piece of content to be published in multiple formats. TADPOLE aims to create resources once and publish them everywhere by adapting content for different outputs like print, ebooks, and the web using AMEs. A demonstration of TADPOLE shows how a video AME can be adapted for different formats.

1. The Adaptive Digital
Publishing Engine
Metamorphosis in Publishing
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alisonelizabethx/4704722551/

2. I’m the Project Lead
Tim Klapdor
Innovation Technology Officer
@timklapdor
http://flic.kr/p/5pzS4b

3. How to make our existing
learning resources
available on mobile devices?
http://flic.kr/p/9mRskg

4. Text is easy.
Media is a breakpoint.
http://flic.kr/p/9mRskg

5. Students want resources
that suit them
PRINT + WEB + MOBILE

6. Adaptive Media &
“create once,
publish everywhere”

7. The Adaptive Digital
Publishing Engine

8. TADPOLE uses metamorphosis
- whereby there is conspicuous
& abrupt transformation
accompanied by changes in
habitat or behaviour.

9. Adaptive Media Element
A meta-object.
Not a single file but a
container for files and detailed,
expressive metadata
http://flic.kr/p/5pzS4b

10. Adaptive Media Element
VIDEO AME
Title
INFO
Description
INFO
Creator
INFO
YouTube
LINK
Copyright
INFO
Transcript
FILE
HiRes
MP4
LoRes
MP4
Sml Poster
IMAGE
Lrg Poster
IMAGE
HiRes
WEBM
http://flic.kr/p/5pzS4b
Subtitles
SRT
LoRes
WEBM
Thumbnail Thumbnail
JPG
PNG

11. Adaptive Media Element
Title
INFO
Copyright
INFO
Title
INFO
Description
INFO
Creator
INFO
YouTube
LINK
Subtitles
SRT
Copyright
INFO
Transcript
FILE
HiRes
MP4
LoRes
MP4
Sml Poster
IMAGE
Lrg Poster
IMAGE
HiRes
WEBM
LoRes
WEBM
Thumbnail Thumbnail
JPG
PNG
HiRes
MP4
Lrg Poster
IMAGE
Transcript
FILE
http://flic.kr/p/5pzS4b

12. Adaptive Media Element
VIDEO
AME
PRINT
<img> Lrg Poster
IMAGE
eBook
Title
INFO
<p> Description
INFO
<a>
YouTube
LINK
<p>
Copyright
INFO
http://flic.kr/p/5pzS4b
<p>
Title
INFO
<video> Sml Poster
IMAGE
Transcript
FILE
WEB
Description
INFO
HiRes
MP4
<p>
Title
INFO
Description
INFO
<video> Sml Poster YouTube
IMAGE
LINK
<a>
Transcript
FILE
<a>
Transcript
FILE
<p>
Copyright
INFO
<p>
Copyright
INFO

13. Demonstration

14. Proof of concept Web Version
http://bit.ly/tadpolepoc
COM123 Web
http://bit.ly/tadpolecom
Documents
http://bit.ly/tadpoledoc