Educational TV website for students

By Rodney Appleyard

GlobeVista has launched an education website, through the integration Canto's Cumulus 6.0 digital asset management software, to make research and learning easier for students at school and universities.

The GV.TV website has applied the DAM solution to provide an education resource for students to find still and moving images, including audio, acquired from 26 different countries around the world.

Digitised video footage can be viewed in broadcast quality and even downloaded to the desktop for research purposes. The creators of the site say there is a wealth of information on the site, ranging from the history of Ned Kelly, to behind the scenes footage from the movie: Master and Commander.

Aiden Montagu, co-owner of the site, and the previous co-founder of Cisco Systems in Australia said. "We have a freelance camera crew on board who have worked on many high profile programmes for TV stations such as ABC and Channel 9 and many others around the world. We have basically broken down all of their raw archive footage from documentaries and films, separated them into small clips and then loaded this footage onto the website. The clips have been transformed into a format that is educational and informative for visitors.

"Students can also use editing software available with this website to edit their own documentary too. The system provides people with information they need quickly, which is easy on the eye because of the convenient use of sound and video footage. The Cumulus package has made it easier to present this exactly how we imagined it."

100 schools in Western Australia took part in GlobeVista's pilot programme conducted last year. At the time, the Department of Education and Training of Western Australia asked GlobeVista to provide a platform that would allow students to search via both keyword and them to download images.

All of these schools have now taken up full licences to access the new GV.TV platform, which has an enhanced user interface, and an ever-growing range of accessible content.

The website was launched officially this month at the Australian Innovation Festival, which celebrate the creation of cutting edge new ideas.

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