NJVid is an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) grant funded project that will provide a statewide digital video network to meet the wide ranging needs of educators, students, and lifelong learners in New Jersey. NJVid is a collaboration among three institutions—William Paterson University, NJEdge.net and Rutgers University.

NIVid’s innovative management and sustainability design includes ongoing oversight and contributions from three consortia: New Jersey’s Virtual Academic Environment (VALE), NJEDge – a non-profit corporation of the New Jersey President’s Council to support K20 education, and New Jersey Digital Highway (NJDH) – the statewide digital cultural heritage portal. A digital video network for the state of New Jersey must support the complex educational needs of K20 schools and cultural heritage institutions of which there are over 600 including public libraries, archives, historical societies, and museums. Video collections to serve the citizens of New Jersey are the core of NJVid. Collections will focus in three areas: Video Commons will include publicly available history, lectures from notables, and video documenting research and scientific advances. Commercial videos will be available through educational consortia and accessible based on the rights of participating institutions. In a special application, lectures on demand will be supported by enabling faculty or students to create virtual clips that can be used for the duration of a course. Supporting the widely divergent needs of K12 schools, higher education, and New Jersey citizens is a very complex and ambitious undertaking. NJVid is being developed by using two advanced and mature technology platforms – RUcore, the Rutgers University Community Repository and Fedora, the Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture. Supporting video based collections will require significant enhancements to RUcore in the areas of storage architecture, networking, authentication and authorization, and application services.

This presentation will provide a brief overview of Fedora and a more in-depth discussion of major NJVid capabilies including:

- RUL’s open-source Workflow Management System which provides the service for metadata creation, ingest, and collection management
- Development of a robust digital video streaming and video object architecture
- For statewide authorization and access, a Shibboleth — community of trust
- A storage architecture that supports ingest and archiving of large video master files
- A portal architecture that can be customized for each partner and enables annotation of videos for enhanced learning opportunities

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