University of North Texas

The Texas Center for Digital Knowledge at the University of North Texas is committed to bringing the benefits of digital information technology to the broader community through the publishing and application of valuable research. However, the tedious process of manually searching through hours of video within each research project has long been the bane of students and professors working at the Center. This process has limited their productivity and has deprived them of valuable time needed for other aspects of their research. Recognizing that current advances in streaming video technology could simplify this cumbersome task, the University called on Virage to help automate and streamline video archival and retrieval.

In 2000, the University started using Virage software to encode, index and archive several hundred hours of video for research purposes, ranging from in-house lectures to early foreign feature films. By creating a video database that can be published online, the Virage-enabled system provides precise, immediate access into massive amounts of video. Now, from the convenience of the PC desktop or a laptop, students and faculty can retrieve and review relevant information in several mouse clicks. Other departments are also using the Virage platform, ingesting and archiving an assorted variety of videos into the existing database and expanding the wealth of information within the system. The Texas Center for Digital Knowledge, with the help of Virage, has created a University-wide interdisciplinary research tool that reduces search time by unifying sprawling sources of information into a single-destination archive.

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