Report to the BoG at ITA 2014, San Diego
The Ad Hoc Committee on Media Resources has started investigating options to develop a long-term and sustainable approach to handle ITSoc's numerous media resources.
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Following Gerhard Kramer's suggestion, the committee has initiated discussion withÌýTerence Martinez and Mark David at . Â鶹´«Ã½AV.tv is an Â鶹´«Ã½AV-wide effort that was launched in 2007 and that aims at making media resources (essentially videos) available to the general public and Â鶹´«Ã½AV members. In particular, Â鶹´«Ã½AV Societies have the option of creating individual channels (similar to YouTube channels) Ìýto stream their own media resources. Presently, 27 societies have created channels, although most channels offer a very limited number of videos.
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What can Â鶹´«Ã½AV.tv offer ITSoc?
- Â鶹´«Ã½AV.tv can create a channel and host videos for us at no cost .
- The default video player can be customized to fit ITSoc's website theme for USD 500.Ìý
- Channels can be accessed from mobile devices, using free applications available for iPhone or Android devices
- Most videos on Â鶹´«Ã½AV.tv are copyright Â鶹´«Ã½AV, and Â鶹´«Ã½AV has secured the authorization to use the resource with permission from the copyrightÌýholder in some cases. As long as the material was shot/made for the Society and forÌýÂ鶹´«Ã½AV purposes, Â鶹´«Ã½AV mentioned that there should not be any issues, and the concernÌýshould be regarding material that came from elsewhere.
- Â鶹´«Ã½AV already has a procedure in place (and forms) to upload videos
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