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New Jersey Digital Video Initiative

NJ Digital Video Initiative: NJVid

Grace Agnew, Associate University Librarian for Digital Library Systems,

Rutgers University Libraries

Charles McMickle, Director of Technical Services, NJEDge.Net

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New Jersey Digital Video Initiative

NJ Digital Video Initiative

Growing importance of on-demand video in online education is now widely recognized

Various Library consortia have identified the need to provide video resources and services statewide as an important strategic objective

William Paterson, Rutgers Libraries, and NJEDge are partnering on a $1M IMLS Grant that provides funding for such an initiative

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New Jersey Digital Video Initiative

Grant partnersGrant partners

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New Jersey Digital Video Initiative

NJVid The portal repository will support:

“Lectures-on-Demand” with a clickable “table of contents” for K-20 educators

Licensed commercial academic videos from companies like Films Media Group

Locally owned and developed academic video Videos searchable through metadata tags VoDcasting and Podcasting delivery options Statewide authentication and authorization

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New Jersey Digital Video Initiative

Instructional Advantages of VoD

Access to content any time, any place Easily construct clips to meet instructional needs Playlists easily integrated with Blackboard/WebCT More titles can be purchased with digital delivery

rights leveraging economies of scale Online students can access the same content as

classroom students Increased bandwidth and infrastructure is now

stable enough to provide quality video-on-demand

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New Jersey Digital Video Initiative

IdM is Key for NJVid

Service may depend upon: Institution you are from Role (faculty, staff, student) Enrollment in specific course

One server needs to be able to verify this information for members of many institutions

Requires “federated identity”

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New Jersey Digital Video Initiative

Shibboleth

NJVid grant specified Shibboleth Technology for federated authentication and

authorization; which depends upon identity/identifiers and directory services

Allows a common server to authenticate users based on an institution’s own IdM and finds roles and attributes to make authorization decisions

Maintain user privacy (temp opaque ids)