e-Clips Cornell s Premier Video Clip Collection on Entrepreneurship

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 2004 -05 Current site launched January, 2006 New server November, 2006 • CIT FABIT grant – Testing in a large class – Linking with Blackboard

Demos Production site: http: //eclips. cornell. edu Blog: http: //cornell-eclips. blogspot. com Admin site: http: //streeter. mannlib. cornell. edu

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