Designing Streaming
Video Services:
Challenges, Opportunities & Working Models
Susie Breier & Jared Wiercinski
82nd ABQLA Annual Conference
our lens and bias
- Academic Setting
- Documentaries
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Assumption:
DVDs heading towards obsolescence
streaming videos
&
our library users:
HOW will they FIND them?
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Via our Web Pagesnot all is indexed in our catalogue
HOW ELSE WILL THEY FIND THEM?
eConcordia
WHere will they go?
- To external servers:
Alexander Street Press , NFB Campus
- To our own streaming media server: Helix...
all about helix
STREAMING VIDEOS
behind the scenes:
streaming models: Film collections
Purchase or subscription:
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see for example the BAnQ's list: - Online resources - music & video
Pay-per use or per-circulation:
- see for example the new Toronto Public Library service: Hoopla
STREAMING MODELS: individual FILMs
Purchase or License:
-
a single
digital film
- hosted
externally
OR
to be hosted/ streamed locally
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a DVD - with rights to create a digital file and
host /stream it locally
Purchase the digital rights to a library-owned
DVD or VHS - convert and host it locally
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Distributors/producers sell us the rights
Ex: Women Make Movies, New Day Films
OR
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*No commercial version is available [provision 30.1 Copyright Act]
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from DVD: conversion in-house - from VHS: transfer service
streaming rights: for how long?
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1, 3 or 5 years
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"in perpetuity" or for the "life of the format"
The future: our Questions
Individual
consumption vs. institutional access
-
what does the case of
audio streaming
tell us?
Subscriptions and licenses vs. ownership
- what does ownership mean with formats bound for eventual obsolescence?
http://slides.com/susiebreier/streamingvideoservicesYour Questions!
References & Resources
Further reading
DeCesare, J. A. (2014). Streaming Video Resources for Teaching, Learning, and Research. Library Technology Reports, 50(2).
Video streaming databases
-
see BAnQ's list: - Online resources - music & video
- see also the new Toronto Public Library pay-per-circulation service: Hoopla
REFERENCES & RESOURCES
Distributors selling DVDs with streaming rights or born digital films (there are many!)
Women Make Movies, New Day Films, Kinosmith, Films on Demand , 7th Art Releasing, Icarus Films, Bullfrog Films, Media Education Foundation, Alexander Street Video Store, Ambrose Video.....
Video Streaming Hosting Services:
VHS Transfer (conversion to digital) Services - Montreal
Designing Streaming Video Services: Challenges, Opportunities and Working Models
By susie breier
Designing Streaming Video Services: Challenges, Opportunities and Working Models
Prepared for the ABQLA 82nd Annual Conference
