After a busy summer investigating the numerous options for our media portal and continuing to source content it is coming down to the wire. Recently we were made aware that an iTunes U page would be an unrealistic outcome at this point. While this was indeed a blow dealt to our long term thinking in the short run it doesn't have much bearing on the contet we ahve produced so far. We have been using an Open Source Media Portal based on the Mediacore back end as a proof of concept and in terms of delivery of the relatively small batch of content we have it has some very credible features.
Some other developments in the works are moving the backend platform and the production workflow to a cloud based service to fully integrate the notion of a shared service structure within the cloud concept. A number of options have been investigated in this regard including, Amazon S3 but for the scale of this project a more locally served option based out of the ULCC is more pertinent.
Check back soon for further updates.
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