Designing Streaming
Video Services:
Challenges, Opportunities & Working Models
Susie Breier & Jared Wiercinski
82nd ABQLA Annual Conference
our lens and bias
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Assumption:
DVDs heading towards obsolescence
on obsolescence...
streaming videos
&
our library users:
HOW will they FIND them?
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Via our Web Pages
not all is indexed in our catalogue
HOW ELSE WILL THEY FIND THEM?
eConcordia
STREAMING VIDEOS
behind the scenes:
streaming models: Film collections
Purchase or subscription:
Pay-per use or per-circulation:
STREAMING MODELS: individual FILMs
Purchase or License:
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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
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
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what does the case of
audio streaming
tell us?
Subscriptions and licenses vs. ownership
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what does
ownership
mean with formats bound for eventual obsolescence?
References & Resources
Video streaming databases
REFERENCES & RESOURCES
Distributors selling DVDs with streaming rights or born digital films (there are many!)
Video Streaming Hosting Services:
VHS Transfer (conversion to digital) Services - Montreal