Videotorium is the first educational-scientific video sharing multimedia portal in Hungary, which is one of the most modern services of this type in international comparison, thanks to its innovative solutions.
Of course, Videotorium wants to be much more than a general-purpose video sharing service. Overall, a very large primary user community - around 600.000 educators, researchers and students - produces a large amount of audiovisual content that has so far had little really good potential to be properly stored, presented and retrieved. Special features to support uploading, editing, and retrieval are tailored to the requirements of scientific dissemination and content sharing. In addition to sharing recordings, the uploader has the option to attach a presentation slide and sync it to the recording. The precise description of the recordings and the exploration of their content are supported by a metadata model designed with library demands, which ensures the retrievability expected in the scientific world. Full-text indexing of transparencies and documents allows Internet users accurate and instant access to information.
The portal builds user identification on a national higher education-research eduID federated authentication and authorization infrastructure (AAI) based on international standards. Videotorium also offers a standard metadata exchange interface for similar content aggregators (eg institutional video repositories, international portals), which allows the content stored in Videotorium to be displayed in other search engines.
In addition to providing quality support for education, distance learning and distance learning, Videotorium intends to play a role in introducing the work of higher education research, promoting scientific thinking, thereby promoting the social recognition of our Hungarian lecturers and researchers and the wider acceptance of scientific thinking. The collection and the service can therefore play an important role in the publication of the results of the Hungarian scientific workshops, and it can also be important in such a way that they can get acquainted with them and connect them with similar services abroad.
The Videotorium already has more than 1100 hours of open access to recordings on a wide range of topics, from informatics, biology, and cosmology. The recording of numerous professional and scientific conferences, lectures by Nobel Prize-winning scientists, educational lectures and seminars are not only important for higher education and research actors, but also provide opportunities for anyone to learn and self-educate.
The development could take place as part of the New Hungary Development Plan (NHDP) SROP 4.1.3 priority project.
