Video Active Presentation Agenda: Demonstration of videoactive.eu Frontend and Backendfiatifta.dk Copenhagen September 2008 Video Active videoactive.eu is... A growing collection of more than video clips online already. Adding 25 clips each day on average (Goal: more than items in total). Covering more than 34 topics. Covering all television genres. Multilingual: 10 European languages supported: Navigation in native languages. All items translated to English. Multilingual thesaurus enables search across language barriers. Main structure 4 main entry points to the material: Via the front page. Via key topics in European history. Through five pathways (written material). Via the search functions: Simple search. Advanced search. Main structure 4 main entry points to the material: The front page: A random clip (pressing F5 loads a new clip). Most popular clips. Latest viewed clips. Related videos to random clip. Key topics in European History 34 topics Five pathways Programmes Technology Institutions Events Watching Search functions: Simple search Advanced search Main structure 4 main entry points to the material: The front page: A random clip (pressing F5 will load a new clip) Most popular clips Latest viewed clips Related videos to random clip 34 Key topics in European History Click on one of the 34 topics and get direct access to clips. Five pathways Programmes Technology Institutions Events Watching Search functions: Simple search Advanced search Main structure 4 main entry points to the material: The front page: A random clip (pressing F5 will load a new clip) Most popular clips Latest viewed clips Related videos to random clip Key topics in European history 34 topics Five pathways (written material): Programmes. Technology. Institutions. Events. Watching. The search functions: Simple search Advanced search Main structure 4 main entry points to the material: The front page: A random clip (pressing F5 will load a new clip) Most popular clips Latest viewed clips Related videos to random clip Key topics in European history 34 topics Five pathways (written material) Programmes Technology Institutions Events Watching The search functions: Simple search. Advanced search. Use speech marks to refine searches. Combine full text search and pre-defined options. Search Results Filters Use filters to refine search results. Wherever there's a plus (+) you can expand the filter to get more options. Filter only shows options within the search. Search Results Keywords (thesaurus) Words entered in simple or advanced search text fields also searches the thesaurus. you can use e.g. the Danish term for animal (dyr") and get results in any language, because animal is a thesaurus keyword. Click on keywords to narrow down the search. Search Results The items A mouse-over function gives you more information about the item: The full title The title in English The owner. Click on the keyframe or title to get to the actual clip. Search Results - Items Two types of players Supported Flash Player. Windows Media Player. User Workspace Free registration Join the community. Save favourite items. Web Shop The Archive partners present material that is available to buy from their web shops. Web Shop Backend Item Management Overview of items Search and sorting. Visible / Invisible. Finished / Unfinished. Creation of new items. Import of metadata (from excel). Adding contextual information. Backend Create item Add metadata. Add thesaurus words. Add link to file: Video. Picture. text. Backend Keywords the keywords are based on the ThesauriX platform. Click on the + to get to narrower term. Thesaurus terms (keywords) are translated into 10 European languages. Backend Adding media files Video files: Windows Media. Flash. Image files. Written material. Making the clip visible / invisible to the public Further information About Video Active Get to know more about: The videoactive.eu site. The consortium. The partners. Collaboration with other projects. Future plans. Presentations and other activities.