This paper gives a short overview of the Opencast Matterhorn system. Built by an open community of individuals and institutions, Matterhorn provides a lecture capture platform for both research and production environments. Matterhorn is comprehensive and scalable, and includes components for the acquisition, processing, and playback of content. Matterhorn is licensed under the liberal Educational Community License (ECL 2.0), a flexible OSI approved open source license, and the Opencast community is free for all institutions, corporations, or individuals to join.
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to introduce the Opencast Community, a global community of individuals, institutions, and commercial stakeholders exchanging knowledge about all matters relevant in the context of academic video and promoting projects in this context. It also gives an overview of the most prominent of these projects, Opencast Matterhorn – a community‐driven open source solution for producing, managing, and distributing academic video.Design/methodology/approachThe paper will demonstrate that Opencast Matterhorn is satisfying institutional needs to manage audiovisual content more efficiently as video is becoming a significant resource in research and education. Furthermore, the paper highlights that Opencast Matterhorn as a product and as a project is open for contributions from the research community and provides an excellent environment for the integration of research results from media analysis, multimedia authoring, search technologies, and other related fields.FindingsOpencast Matterhorn provides a scalable open source solution for universities to manage academic video. Its service‐oriented architecture makes it customizable to institutional needs and open for contributions from users as well as media research.Originality/valueThe paper provides an insight to the idea of Opencast, the Opencast Community, and Opencast Matterhorn – and how they will help academic institutions to better manage and exploit the full richness of educational video.
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