The ICTP Science Dissemination Unit (SDU) [of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics] is pleased to announce the release of an innovative automated recording system: openEyA, which integrates different technologies under free Ubuntu Linux OS. The project's goal is to automate as much as possible the production and post-production processes of academic webcasting in order to reduce costs....
We aim to help bridging the knowledge divide in developing countries.
no dedicated human intervention during recording and post-processing (no need for an operator or editor); The automated audio-video-slides synchronization is done in few minutes.
scalable architecture and portable (from one classroom to many);
no special requirements for the speaker or lecturer (no need to press buttons during the lecture or to wear a microphone, etc) ;
low-bandwidth friendly features (synchronized recordings are saved as zip files)....
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/18/2009 01:29:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
