[BOAI] Innovative Webcasting of Traditional Lectures: openEyA

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical 
Physics.  --Peter Suber.]


OPEN WEBCASTING SYSTEM FOR KNOWLEDGE DISSEMINATION
Innovative Webcasting of Traditional Lectures: openEyA

Trieste, Italy-- The ICTP Science Dissemination Unit (SDU) 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. 
openEyA satisfies all these requirements in a way that has yet no similar. 
It can be downloaded for educational purposes from:

http://www.openEyA.org

The automated audio-video-slides synchronization is done in few minutes and 
recordings can be saved as zip files.  The system is based on 
cost-effective hardware.

OpenEyA allows to archive and share traditional (scientific) lectures and 
talks carried out using, e.g., classroom chalkboards and/or using digital 
presentations (PPT, PDF, animations, etc). The system output is a webpage 
with synchronized:
   - video in Flash format (to see whatever happens in front of a
     classroom)
   - high resolution digital photos with a zoom to highlight
     specific areas of the classroom podium, blackboard and
     projector screen -if any and
   - classroom audio (without the need for the lecturer to wear a
     microphone).

We aim to help bridging the knowledge divide in developing countries.

For further information contact us at: "sdu at ictp.it"


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