Enhancing streaming video resources for the practitioner: metadata
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1108/03055720510588524 |
| Date | 01 March 2005 |
| Pages | 78-84 |
| Published date | 01 March 2005 |
| Author | Gayle Calverley |
| Subject Matter | Information & knowledge management |
Enhancing streaming video
resources for the practitioner:
metadata
Gayle Calverley
Distributed Learning, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Abstract
Purpose – Proposes to investigate the benefits of Lifesign “networked moving images for the Life
Sciences”, which was created with the aim of developing, cataloguing and evaluating the use of
streaming media in learning and teaching in the broad life sciences.
Design/methodology/approach – Introduces and describes Lifesign, examining its advantages
and disadvantages.
Findings – Lifesign has developed, catalogued and evaluated the use of streaming media in learning
and teaching in the broad life sciences. While resources of this kind have been deemed “interoperable”,
it has proven difficult to support these effectively for remote practitioners through effective transfer of
secondary resources. While a basic delivery profile meets specific needs of certain practitioners, it is
limited in its ability to deliver and provide information on secondary material. Pragmatic use of
metadata, combined with adoption of metadata with Reusable Learning Objects, can offer solutions
that go some way to providing more extensible support to tutors creating streaming scenarios for their
students.
Originality/value – Provides useful information for those wishing to use Lifesign.
Keywords Video, Informationmanagement, Learning, Resources
Paper type Research paper
Introduction
Lifesign or “networked moving images for the Life Sciences” was created with the aim
of developing, cataloguing and evaluating the use of streaming media in learning and
teaching in the broad life sciences. While previous work had scoped the delivery
aspects of streaming media, relatively little information was available regarding the
impact of embedding these media effectively within learning. Lifesign set out to
procure and deliver a body of material that could be made available for learning, and to
support staff within the Life Sciences who wished to trial streaming media with their
students in a real learning environment.
Since Lifesign commenced, a significant collection of video resources has been
identified, licensed, and developed that is targeted at the life sciences community. This
body of material includes access to collections made available to the UK higher
education (HE) and furhter education (FE) community by prestigious organisations
that include: Shotlist, Viewtech, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Biochemical
Society and the BBC.
The Emerald Research Register for this journal is available at The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at
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The author would like to thank to Kate Lloyd-Jones (University of Glamorgan) for creation of the
original metadata examples for Lifesign streams, and Andrew Dalgleish (University of
Glamorgan) for provision of these examples to enable further work.
VINE
35,1/2
78
VINE: The journal of information and
knowledge management systems
Vol. 35 No. 1/2, 2005
pp. 78-84
qEmerald Group Publishing Limited
0305-5728
DOI 10.1108/03055720510588524
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