MyMedia

The library has launched a content management system for serving and storage of rich media resources university wide. Growing out of the University's pandemic planning in 2009, the Library developed a web application, MyMedia, consisting of a dedicated streaming server, user/management interface, and extensive data storage.

In partnership with the University's Camtasia Relay server, the Library's MyMedia service provides the end-to-end ability to capture (via smart-classrooms and personal computers), manage, serve, and promote lectures and presentations. In addition to supporting Camtasia formats, MyMedia has been extended to support the wide variety of media content that is being generated at the university, allowing for individual uploads of a variety of media, server-side encoding to streamable formats, access management (authenticated or publicly available streams and downloads) as well as providing permanent play links and embed code for the redistribution of media content. MyMedia contains a comprehensive meta data structure, and current development includes methods for bulk loading media and exploring multiple options for content discovery and delivery through the library catalogue, websites and RSS feeds.

We'll be demonstrating the Media Server from the content owner's and content user's perspective, and providing a description of its technical architecture. We welcome any feedback and interest in using this service at the university.