CAW: A Containment Unit to Prevent Crossed Streams

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The Instructional Media Resources department at the Center For Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL) is a high-throughput media production center for education-related and campus event materials. In order to manage the ingest, editing, transcoding and discovery of these materials, CITL is developing a suite of tools we call the Curricular Asset Warehouse (CAW). CAW […]

Born Digital, Live Well

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The challenges of video archiving inescapably entered the realm of IT problems once cameras stopped recording to tape or film and instead began writing to filesystems. These challenges are non-trivial: the storage needs for video data are significant and the data does not self-index: descriptive metadata needs to be generated by the camera operators and […]