e-Clips Cornell’s Premier Video Clip Collection on Entrepreneurship, Business, and Leadership John Cline Jon Corson-Rikert Metadata Working Group December 15, 2006

The e-Clips Collection Background and scope Resources & access Partnerships Demo Future of e-Clips and its technologies Discussion

Background Collection created in 1996 by Dr. Deborah Streeter for use in the classroom –Virtual panel of experts –Clips rather than full-length talks –Open access –Growing daily in content and use Bootstrapping –Students –Small grants –Partnerships and collaborations Goals –Increase the adoption and effectiveness of technology in Cornell undergraduate teaching –Preserve and make available a unique and varied collection –Significantly impact national and international entrepreneurship education

Scope 4 principal contributing institutions Cornell, RPI, National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance, Springboard Enterprises 15 collections e.g., ag- and food-related businesses, young entrepreneur stories 253 themes e.g., pros and cons of getting an MBA, shoot your dogs early 323 interviews/lectures 3668 registered users 67 countries 818 universities – 480 in the U.S., 338 international 7151 video clips

Resources & Access Free access and clip download with registration 4 primary paths –Educators –Students –Trainers –Entrepreneurs Teacher tools –Idea banks –Prepared content –Blackboard links e-Clips blog –News –Entrepreneur update –Tech tips

Major Features Short, topical clips Detailed, consistent, clean, complete metadata –Bios, pictures, company info, interview/lecture profiles –Full-text searchable transcripts Simple and logical organization –People, companies, interviews/lectures –Collections and cross-cutting themes Quotes Bookmarks Listening lists with annotation –Prepared –Personal

Partnerships Core content development team –Deborah Streeter, Professor, Applied Economics and Management –Kirsten Barker, Content Manager –D. Jamie Kalousdian, Manager of Media Production Ongoing library collaboration –Tentative steps ~2002 –First prototype ~2003 –Faculty Grant for Digital Library Collections –Current site launched January, 2006 –New server November, 2006 CIT FABIT grant –Testing in a large class –Linking with Blackboard

Demos Production site: Blog: Admin site:

Enhancements Completing the Paths –Student –Trainer –Entrepreneur Instructional tools –Enhanced listening lists –Assignments –Closer blog & Blackboard integration –RSS feeds –Podcasts Value-added content –Prepared content –Powerpoints on demand

Challenges Going Forward Sustaining 4 major efforts –Content capture –Content production –Metadata –Hosting and delivery Mixing models –Unrestricted educational access –Special audiences –Value-added content Growing the concept for other resources –Migrating the technologies –Replicating the collaborative model of development

Discussion As e-Clips gets bigger, how can we maintain easy access to content? –E.g., dealing with the long list of themes –Would a more formal metadata structure be helpful? –Or should we adopt a tagging model or let users rank clips? Should e-Clips remain a free resource? Is there a threshold of size, service, or commerce that would argue for a different hosting model?

Credits Project Director –Deborah Streeter, Bruce F. Failing, Sr. Professor of Personal Enterprise and Small Business Management Content Development –Kirsten Barker, Content Manager –D. Jaime Kalousdian, Manager of Media Production Delivery –Melissa Kuo, Web Designer –John Cline, Programmer –Jon Corson-Rikert, IT Manager