Hi Nick
HTML 5 might just provide you with some solutions. Scott Wilson has been doing quite a bit of work on this with video widgets - see http://scottbw.wordpress.com/2011/06/24/html5-is-far-more-than-just-a-drop-in-replacement-for-embedding/ - and his blog has other snippets of mobile video goodness.
Sheila
On 24 Jun 2011, at 11:45, Sheppard, Nick wrote:
Cheers Phil
Might try to do that - never been to the Repository Fringe (or the other Fringe).
On a semi-related note I wonder if I could pick the list’s collective brains around issues of mobile delivery of OER (video)...With our ACErep project - http://acerep.wordpress.com/ - I’ve rather inherited the task of mobile provision to ALPS CETL - http://www.alps-cetl.ac.uk/index.html - resources which include a number of video files in .flv and .3gp – ostensibly for mobile delivery...which I don’t know a huge amount about - my handset is still primarily a phone* – though I do have an iPod touch which won’t play either .flv or .3gp (or .mp4) from the several repositories I tried (our own intraLibrary, Jorum [DSpace] or EPrints).
I know that Apple devices aren’t compatible with Flash which I understand is why they require a dedicated player for YouTube (?) and it might be that the best solution currently is just to host video content on there (now supports CC-BY of course!) and point to it from a repository...then there are Android devices which I haven’t even looked at yet...
Naturally, however, I’m interested in preservation and mobile provision of video (as well as other types of oer content) from repositories (and their associated workflows)...am I likely to find that the mobile video landscape is just too variable for this to be easily achieved or are there quick fixes that could be implemented by repository software vendors – is the advent of HTML5 likely to be relevant in this area?
Nick
* For my next upgrade plan on getting one of them Androids
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Subject: CETIS at Repository Fringe [ was Re: SWORD 1.3 Publication Date
On 22/06/2011 14:17, Sheppard, Nick wrote:
N.B. Pointing at my UKCoRR post instead of www.swordapp.org<http://www.swordapp.org> not (only) for self aggrandisement but rather because UKCoRR and OER still feel a little like separate camps and think more cross-dissemination might be useful (should we lose the 1st “R” and become just UKCoR?!)
If it's linking between Repository and OER worlds that you're after, then try to make it to Edinburgh for the Repository Fringe, at least for the last day (5 Aug) when we are lining up an all-star cast to discuss "Advances in Open Systems for Learning Resources"
See: http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/Advances_in_Open_Systems_for_Learning_Resources
and: http://repofringe2011.eventbrite.com/
Phil.
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