MediaCore video

The RVC features very prominently in this new video, released by MediaCore.

ALT-C 2011

Last week, I attended ALT-C, where I presented the story of the Bloomsbury Media Cloud - from its conception as a ptoject to its transformation into a service. You can see the presentation here

From Project to Service

To complete the funded stage of the Bloomsbury Media Cloud initiative, we have written up a case study about the project's outcomes, which can be accessed here.

At the moment, we are working on a Business Case to enable the project to become a fully fledged service, and a useful and sustainable element of the Bloomsbury Learning Environment's portfolio. This has involved partnering with MediaCore and signing up to their cloud-hosted service, which makes use of Amazon S3's storage facility. In the short-term, we were happy with ULCC hosting our website and content, but we are looking forward to working more closely with the platform's developers.

Bloomsbury Media Cloud launch

The Bloomsbury Media Cloud platform formally launched in May at an event marking the occasion. External speakers from JISC, MGt Plc, MediaCore and JISC Digital Media talked about the importance of online media and shared services. View the photos of the day here

Embedded Media

This is a post to illustrate what embedded media might look like on an academic project blog!

Content Release form

One of the documents that the Bloomsbury Media Cloud team has worked on during the project has been a content release form, which we ask contributors to sign when either providing brand new content or allowing us to re-purpose existing content. The document protects the project and provides appropriate safeguards that mean the project cannot be held accountable if any individuals offer us content that they shouldn’t i.e. copyrighted material. It also allows the project to use content without infringing the contributor's copyright.

You can see the form here and re-purpose it for your own use.

Media Services in the Cloud

Today, in the education sector, we are seeing increasing use of Cloud Services to deliver institutional services in innovative ways such as delivery of multimedia content. What value are such developments seeking to provide? And how can the benefits be measured in order to ensure that, at a time of reductions in funding, investment in such developments is worthwhile?

Sarah Sherman, the Bloomsbury Media Cloud's project manager has been invited to present and answer these questions at a UKOLN workshop on 7th December at Birkbeck. "Institutional and Social Web Services: Evidence for Their Value" is a one-day event based around "Evidence, Impact, Metrics". The workshop will aim to explore ways in which evidence can be collated in order to demonstrate the impact of online services and the metrics which can be used to support such evidence.

For more information about the event, including the full programme, visit:
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/eim-2010-12/