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!