e-ClipsCornell’s Premier Video Clip Collection on

Entrepreneurship, Business, and

Leadership

John ClineJon Corson-Rikert

Metadata Working Group

December 15, 2006

The e-Clips Collection

• Background and scope

• Resources & access

• Partnerships

• Demo

• Future of e-Clips and its technologies

• Discussion

Background

• Collection created in 1996 by Dr. Deborah Streeter for use in the classroom

– Virtual panel of experts– Clips rather than full-length talks– Open access– Growing daily in content and use

• Bootstrapping– Students– Small grants– Partnerships and collaborations

• Goals– Increase the adoption and effectiveness of technology in Cornell undergraduate

teaching– Preserve and make available a unique and varied collection– Significantly impact national and international entrepreneurship education

Scope

4 principal contributing institutionsCornell, RPI, National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance,

Springboard Enterprises

15 collectionse.g., ag- and food-related businesses, young entrepreneur stories

253 themese.g., pros and cons of getting an MBA, shoot your dogs early

323 interviews/lectures3668 registered users

67 countries818 universities – 480 in the U.S., 338 international

7151 video clips

Resources & Access

• Free access and clip download with registration• 4 primary paths

– Educators– Students– Trainers– Entrepreneurs

• Teacher tools– Idea banks– Prepared content– Blackboard links

• e-Clips blog– News– Entrepreneur update– Tech tips

Major Features

• Short, topical clips• Detailed, consistent, clean, complete metadata

– Bios, pictures, company info, interview/lecture profiles– Full-text searchable transcripts

• Simple and logical organization– People, companies, interviews/lectures– Collections and cross-cutting themes

• Quotes• Bookmarks• Listening lists with annotation

– Prepared– Personal

Partnerships

• Core content development team– Deborah Streeter, Professor, Applied Economics and Management– Kirsten Barker, Content Manager– D. Jamie Kalousdian, Manager of Media Production

• Ongoing library collaboration– Tentative steps ~2002– First prototype ~2003– Faculty Grant for Digital Library Collections 2004-05– Current site launched January, 2006– New server November, 2006

• CIT FABIT grant– Testing in a large class– Linking with Blackboard

Demos

Production site: http://eclips.cornell.edu

Blog: http://cornell-eclips.blogspot.com

Admin site: http://streeter.mannlib.cornell.edu

Enhancements

• Completing the Paths– Student– Trainer– Entrepreneur

• Instructional tools– Enhanced listening lists– Assignments– Closer blog & Blackboard integration– RSS feeds– Podcasts

• Value-added content– Prepared content– Powerpoints on demand

Challenges Going Forward

• Sustaining 4 major efforts– Content capture– Content production– Metadata– Hosting and delivery

•Mixing models– Unrestricted educational access– Special audiences– Value-added content

• Growing the concept for other resources– Migrating the technologies– Replicating the collaborative model of development

Discussion

• As e-Clips gets bigger, how can we maintain easy access to content?

– E.g., dealing with the long list of themes– Would a more formal metadata structure be helpful?– Or should we adopt a tagging model or let users rank clips?

• Should e-Clips remain a free resource?

• Is there a threshold of size, service, or commerce that would argue for a different hosting model?

Credits

• Project Director– Deborah Streeter, Bruce F. Failing, Sr. Professor of Personal

Enterprise and Small Business Management

• Content Development– Kirsten Barker, Content Manager– D. Jaime Kalousdian, Manager of Media Production

• Delivery– Melissa Kuo, Web Designer– John Cline, Programmer– Jon Corson-Rikert, IT Manager