NCast Presentation Server - Manual (Page 6)

NCast Presentation Server Reference Manual
XML – Extensible Markup Language, a set of rules for encoding human and machine readable
documents. Used extensively to implement the server's REST API's.
1.4 S
ERVER
O
VERVIEW
The Presentation Server is an open-standards, open-architecture video and media Content Management System
designed especially to handle the capture and streaming of presentations and lectures given at Universities,
research laboratories, seminars, trade shows and conferences and any other setting where a knowledge expert's
presentation and discussion will be recorded and streamed over internet networks.
Unlike other video content management systems, the Presentation Server (PS) has facilities for dealing with both
the video aspects of a presentation (e.g. a camera shot of the presenter) and the graphical aspects of a
presentation (capture of computer screens, PowerPoints, Keynotes and similar demonstration materials used by
the presenter).
The separate identification and handling of these three components (video, audio and graphics) separates the PS
from its video-only CMS peers.
1.5 A
DMINISTRATIVE
I
NTERFACE
The server presents two different graphical user interfaces to the world, one being the administrative interface and
the second being a viewer portal for discovery and viewing of content.
The administrator controls a large number of functions related to acquiring content for the server, identifying and
indexing the material, verifying viewing rights and planning the proper distribution and publishing of the final
media.
As will be discussed later in this manual, administration tasks include:
Scheduling capture of lectures and seminars
Manually uploading files to the server if required
Assigning appropriate processing steps (workflows) to incoming media
Review and approval of incoming presentation material
Defining series of presentations
Verifying the timely progress of media through the system
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