Library Solutions
Rich media—video, audio, images, podcasts and video synchronized with slides—represents an increasingly significant portion of an educational institution’s library collections and archives.
The ShareStream Video Platform for Education provides academic libraries and consortia with the capability to consolidate multiple “silos” of rich-media content into an enterprise-wide digital asset-management system for media empowered with state-of-the-art digital rights management (DRM).
ShareStream, a turnkey solution for libraries' and consortia’s multimedia needs, is ideal for housing both course and non-course-related collections for password-protected as well as public access. Implementation of the ShareStream Media Platform allows libraries to:
- Efficiently upload and transcode multimedia assets
- Catalogue content with standards-based metadata, such as Dublin Core
- Centrally store, manage and archive media and course reserves in a campus-wide media repository
- Control access to content and manage digital-media licenses through fine-grained digital rights management designed specifically to address the compliance requirements of academic libraries
- Report on media usage through sophisticated video analytics.
The ShareStream Media Repository: Bridging Libraries with Teaching and Learning Through Technology
ShareStream’s digital asset-management software provides full integration with mission-critical teaching and learning systems, including ShareStream’s LMS Extensions for video and audio content.
ShareStream bridges the technological divide that often exists between library and instructional-technology systems by making video, audio and images managed in the library available directly within LMSs and other eLearning applications, while controlling content dissemination through fine-grained digital rights management.
In this way, the ShareStream Video Platform changes the equation for academic computing by facilitating greater fluidity between the library and teaching and learning, and allowing educational institutions to achieve significantly greater value from its content by seamlessly bringing rich media stored in the library into the teaching and learning domain to enrich online course-based learning.
Pick-n-Play Course Media Page that provides faculty and students with a single hub for course media, and a sleek and intuitive web destination for playing, browsing, and searching for the media for which they have privileges directly within your institution’s learning management system
Interoperability with Learning Management Systems through ShareStream’s Blackboard Building Block™ and integration point with ANGEL®, Brightspace® by D2L®, Canvas® by Instructure®, Moodle® and Sakai®
Easy Ingest for faculty members and students with no rich-media expertise that allows authorized users to upload media, which is then automatically transcoded to the appropriate end formats
Digitize, Transcode, and Batch Migrate large multimedia collections in an automated fashion
Deep Embed Thumbnails to multiple locations, including websites, applications, and even emails, in a secure, password-protected manner or in an open environment, through ShareStream’s deep-embedding functionality
Edit media through ShareStream’s online video-editing tool, which provides time-based clip trimming
Workflow and Business Process Management for staging the process of publishing media that includes compliance reviews and approvals
Store and Manage media collections in an enterprise-wide asset management system optimized for large rich media files
Personal Media Gallery and Media Dropbox for submitting student-generated content or sharing content with other students enrolled in the course
Preserve valuable content through ShareStream’s encoding methodology, which creates eMaster files to ensure that assets can be converted to future standard formats
Podcasts into iTunes and RSS feeds in both authenticated and open environments
Search and efficiently browse for and identify relevant learning objects via metadata-driven advanced search
Higher Education-Specific Digital Rights Management that allows institutions to secure and control access to content, as well as manage digital media licenses
Deliver Media through On-Demand Streaming, Live Streaming, and Streaming to Mobile Devices
Automatic Bandwidth-Detection and Adaptive Streaming Functionality for media delivery to users with wide ranges of Internet connectivity
Integration with Authentication and Authorization Services and Single Sign-on Solutions
Open API for independent third-party integration
Reporting Tool that audits and monitors user and content accesses
Pick-n-Play Course Media Page that provides faculty and students with a single hub for course media, and a sleek and intuitive web destination for playing, browsing, and searching for the media for which they have privileges directly within your institution’s learning management system
Interoperability with Learning Management Systems through ShareStream’s Blackboard Building Block™ and integration point with ANGEL®, Brightspace® by D2L®, Canvas® by Instructure®, Moodle® and Sakai®
Easy Ingest for faculty members and students with no rich-media expertise that allows authorized users to upload media, which is then automatically transcoded to the appropriate end formats
Digitize, Transcode, and Batch Migrate large multimedia collections in an automated fashion
Deep Embed Thumbnails to multiple locations, including websites, applications, and even emails, in a secure, password-protected manner or in an open environment, through ShareStream’s deep-embedding functionality
Edit media through ShareStream’s online video-editing tool, which provides time-based clip trimming
Workflow and Business Process Management for staging the process of publishing media that includes compliance reviews and approvals
Store and Manage media collections in an enterprise-wide asset management system optimized for large rich media files
Personal Media Gallery and Media Dropbox for submitting student-generated content or sharing content with other students enrolled in the course
Preserve valuable content through ShareStream’s encoding methodology, which creates eMaster files to ensure that assets can be converted to future standard formats
Podcasts into iTunes and RSS feeds in both authenticated and open environments
Search and efficiently browse for and identify relevant learning objects via metadata-driven advanced search
Higher Education-Specific Digital Rights Management that allows institutions to secure and control access to content, as well as manage digital media licenses
Deliver Media through On-Demand Streaming, Live Streaming, and Streaming to Mobile Devices
Automatic Bandwidth-Detection and Adaptive Streaming Functionality for media delivery to users with wide ranges of Internet connectivity
Integration with Authentication and Authorization Services and Single Sign-on Solutions
Open API for independent third-party integration
Reporting Tool that audits and monitors user and content accesses