King Juan Carlos digitizes its video library with ISID and TSA

The Rey Juan Carlos University awards ISID and TSA the digitization and archiving of its video library, significantly improving access to multimedia material consultation and recovery services.

The Rey Juan Carlos University has acquired the multimedia content manager, Videoma Archivo, for the management of its digital video library. This ambitious project has been carried out by the Vicálvaro Campus Library. The initiative will significantly improve the multimedia material consultation and retrieval services offered to date. The project has been carried out by ISID and Telefónica Servicios Audiovisuales.

The objective pursued by the Rey Juan Carlos University has been to put into operation a system for indexing, archiving and publishing audiovisual materials so that they can be consulted and reused by the university community: students, teaching staff or researchers.

The proposed solution consists of the Videoma Archivo platform, configured for the ingestion of content from different sources (DVD, CD, digital cameras, TV and radio signal), cataloging and clipping system, management of photographic collections, audio library and automatic transcoding of formats (MPEG1, MPEG2, DV, WMV and flv). It also has the Videoma API Module, based on a web service, with which it is expected to create a web portal, where multimedia content can be published and given access to the university community through user permissions.

This translates into a system that can be fed by multiple users and organizes all the material, forming an audiovisual archive of conferences, master classes, photographic collections and seminars accessible from the library's reference room, from any workstation or from a web portal. The Rey Juan Carlos University has had ISID as a manufacturer of software technologies and Telefónica Servicios Audiovisuales for its integration.

Soledad Vicente, director of the Vicálvaro Campus Library and head of the project, highlighted that "with this project we wanted the library to become a dynamic service, an open space for collaboration with teaching staff and students; a service in which teaching and research staff could store, manage and access the audiovisual resources necessary for their teaching and that would facilitate students' access to all the information resources that exist at the University, intended for their learning. That it be a service with character integrative, dynamic and transversal that would offer the university community a wide range of services and resources: in-person and online, that would promote an increase in the use of ICTs, that would respond to 24-hour access, 365 days a year and that would be capable of developing resources that facilitate self-service and self-help.