Cross Media Annotation System - xMAS

Created by Phillip D. Long (MIT) on February 23, 2006

Cross Media Annotation System - xMAS

Creating rich media documents from DVD source material is difficult. Thinking about copying commercial dvd source is against the law. Doing it is breaking the law. So how do you teach from commerical DVDs? The xMAS system was designed to give you the tools to do this in a way that supports good teaching practice, and which isn't illegal! How? You never copy the video.

The system assumes that the source DVD is in your local drive and the annotation of video clip segments is done by storing the frame start and stop points in the server db with appropriate metadata. You add the 'clip' to your document, add text, other URLs, images or movie files and build your rich media document. When you 'play' the document, the system assumes the source of the clip sequences are in your local DVD drive in your computer. It's a clever way to follow legal guidelines and still annotate and build rich media documents.

This is open source sofwtare and freely available from MIT. Just contact icampus@mit.edu - or send me email (longpd@mit.edu).

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		Cross Media Annotation System - xMAS Created by Phillip D. Long (MIT) on February 23, 2006 Cross Media Annotation System - xMAS Creating rich media documents from DVD source material is difficult. Thinking about copying commercial dvd source is against the law. Doing it is breaking the law. So how do you teach from commerical DVDs? The xMAS system was designed to give you the tools to do this in a way that supports good teaching practice, and which isn't illegal! How? You never copy the video. The system assumes that the source DVD is in your local drive and the annotation of video clip segments is done by storing the frame start and stop points in the server db with appropriate metadata. You add the 'clip' to your document, add text, other URLs, images or movie files and build your rich media document. When you 'play' the document, the system assumes the source of the clip sequences are in your local DVD drive in your computer. It's a clever way to follow legal guidelines and still annotate and build rich media documents. This is open source sofwtare and freely available from MIT. Just contact icampus@mit.edu - or send me email (longpd@mit.edu). Phil's blog Login or register to post comments 3107 reads
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