Enhancing time-based media for research

1. Research data spring
Clipper: Enhancing time-based media
for research
27/2/2015
1. Specify parts of a video or audio file to select
and share as ‘virtual clips’,
2. Create annotations to appear alongside the
clips, viewer controls playback,
3. Clips from diferent files, can be combined
together with their annotations to create a
clip playlist – which we call ‘cliplists’

2. Team
» John Casey (Glasgow College) - Manager / Design
» Trevor Collins (Open University) - Pilot
» William Gregory (WillReach Ltd) - Developer
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3. Scope and Gap
» Problem:
» Analysing time-based media (e.g. sound and video)
involves the ‘coding’ of events in time
» Time consuming and labour intensive - resulting
coding from proprietary tools - not easy to
transfer/share
» Real need for clip identification and annotation
support that can share ‘cliplists’ without copying /
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4. Impact and Benefits - 1
» Solution - Clipper
» HTML5 time-based Tool: Identify source, start and
end points and store in HTML document
» Virtual clips’ and ‘Cliplists’: User generated
metadata that is separate from but refers to media
source
» Web-based annotation tool: Add and share
annotations and metadata about time-based media
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5. Impact and Benefits - 2
» •Web-standards (HTML), persistent references
and sharable
» •Non-destructive editing, respects access
permissions
» Responsive design, flexible, scalable, sustainable
» Open Source & Open Licence
» Enables new research collaboration
» Platform for user innovation

6. Sustainability
» User and developer communities at OU / Glasgow
» Open Source & Open Licence - easy uptake
» Good documentation
» Good Code
» Native file format = HTML = portable / adaptable
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7. success
» Phase 1: Working prototype demonstrating
analysis & collaboration with time-based media
› AngularJS, HTML, metadata in json payloads, SQL database
» Phase 2: Demo of intgegration into existing
system or as a specialist service
› MongoDB for SQLess solution, using a nodejs server
» Phase 3: Working system in institutional setting
› User management, admin, process & policy, research activity
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8. Funding
» Project Management / System Design £3K (10 days)
» User Testing and Consultation, Lab Time £5k (14
days)
» Software Development £12k (30 days)
» Hosting, Storage & Bandwidth £2k
» Total = £22k
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