diglib: Virage project

[Carol Hixson <chixson@darkwing.uoregon.edu>]

There's a project that some of you may not be aware of
that Media Services has been developing with the
School of Journalism. I talked briefly with Andy
Kirkpatrick yesterday to see how it was coming
and it's amazing how much has been done.

The URL for the site and a brief project
description follows. If you have specific questions
about the project, I'd suggest that you ask
Andy directly. -- Carol


<http://kindling.uoregon.edu:81/vss-bin/vss_SR/JCOMM/search?query=*&chooser_menu=AllClips&template=results.tmpl>Virage 

University of Oregon faculty members wanting to show television 
advertisements as part of their lectures will no longer have to spend hours 
searching and collecting the material. By the fall of 2004, Journalism and 
Communications and the UO Libraries hope to have at least 500 to 1,000 
television advertisements collected on a searchable database available to 
faculty and students. As of August 2004, there are 800 video clips in the 
database. The television advertisements have been indexed using Virage, the 
library's video-on-demand system. Media Services is playing the lead role 
in this effort. Metadata and Digital Library Services provided assistance 
with defining the metadata.