ARCA Federated audiovisual repository 26 October 2011 ARCA - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

ARCA Federated audiovisual repository 26 October 2011

ARCA - Description � ARCA: RSS Aggregator for the Academic Community � Developed by University Carlos III of Madrid � RedIRIS service from 2007 � It provides video service over the aggregated contents � Complementary publication way � It doesn't cover the production or distribution phases � Open content � Browsing by categories � Searching � Scheduler of events

Main characteristics � Types of supported contents: � VoD � Podcast � Live video events announcements � Supported formats: WM, Real, QT, Flash, h.264 … � The service work over the set of contents provided by members of ARCA � Service model: federated � The metadata is transferred from institutions to ARCA in a easy way: � RSS 2.0 � Namespaces

ARCA service workflow STREAMING HTTP Server SEARCH Streaming Server PUSH LIVE METADATA METADATA Streaming Server HTTP Server ITUNES 4 CONTENT DOWNLOAD

Contents 21000 16000 11000 6000 1000 -4000

Distribution by UNESCO codes 0,46% logic 0,46% 0,46% mathematic 4,48% 4,26% 2,35% 3,33% astronomy and astrophisics 6,28% physic 0,22% chemestry 5,68% 0,14% 0,00% live sciences earth and space sciences agricultural sciences medical sciences 20,68% tecnological sciences 15,02% anthropology demagrophy economic sciences geography history 3,55% 4,45% legal science linguistic pedagogy 2,21% 0,05% 6,45% 10,68% politic science 4,34% psychology 1,31% arts and letters scicences 1,88% sociology 1,23%

Publisher’s distribution

ARCA social layer � Objetives: � Improve usability � Improving the visibility of the contents � Promote the use � Create Community � Facebok Social Plugin � Comments � Likes

how many people liked this content discussion thread 9

� Working on SEO � Version for mobiles 10

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