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 Industry: Govt, Education & Non-Profit Solution: Image Management 
Challenges:
The Web Media Collective of The Ohio State University was developed to help solve the problem of how to help individual faculty, teams of faculty, curriculum groups and multi-discipline communities manage and share media assets for teaching and research. The Web Media Collective leverages digital “knowledge artifact” collections associated with the University for research, teaching, and outreach. The first phase of the project consists of six digital media collections containing over 850,000 media assets that will reach over 20,000 students in 105 course sections annually. Best Practices:
The Ohio State University's Web Media Collective is utilizing Scene7’s Dynamic Asset Management Solution, enabling University professors to leverage a vast library of digital images for use in the classroom. After originally integrating Scene7’s Image Server into its proprietary media management and digital library applications, the University recently upgraded and is in the process of deploying Scene7’s full Dynamic Asset Management solution to create new image templates and add additional functionality to the system. Scene7’s Dynamic Asset Management (DAM) solution enables companies to manage rich media assets corporate wide and make these digital assets available to any user, any time. Scene7's powerful, browser-based system gives users the ability to centralize, organize, control, access, transform, and distribute rich media digital assets for both online and offline uses. Scene7's DAM is built upon Scene7's single, integrated platform for rich media and utilizes Scene7’s Image Production System (IPS) as the central dashboard for all image management and publishing - giving information workers an easy way to locate, modify, and deliver corporate brand and media assets and streamline the management, production and delivery of these assets across the enterprise. Scene7 has automated a once manual process for the faculty. Scene7 can dynamically generate derivatives from single high-quality masters, drastically reducing repetitive manual image production time and costs. Previously, if a faculty member had images to share with students, he would have to manually scan, save them in the appropriate formats, create a Webpage, publish to a server, test the pages, then share the final URL with students. “Now, once the images are scanned in digital format, the faculty can access these images directly through a web interface and create their own derivatives – drastically reducing faculty members’ prep time and providing the ability to show an image as part of a larger concept in class,” said Diane Dagefoerde, Director of Technology, Office of the Colleges of the Arts & Sciences. Results: Scene7’s Dynamic Asset Management solution is enabling The Ohio State University's Web Media Collective to leverage its vast collections of media assets across multiple disciplines, while directly contributing to an increase in production efficiencies and a reduction in instructor preparation time by 4X. In addition, the solution is enhancing the classroom learning experience while enabling wide spread use of these media assets - ultimately making these assets more valuable and available to help the education process. “Scene7’s Dynamic Asset Management Solution has become one of the best investments we’ve made. Scene7 has given us a cost-effective way to manage, process, and deliver our vast collections of high resolution images for use in the classroom and to share these images throughout the University. One of the major benefits of the Scene7 solution is making it possible for the faculty to accomplish something that they always wanted to do,” said Dagefoerde. “So we’ve removed a barrier by creating a service to the University, ultimately making image assets more valuable and available to improve the experience in the classroom. Scene7’s solutions remove the technical barriers to utilizing image assets that the professors already have and want to use – ultimately extending the value of these assets as they can now be used rather than just sitting on a shelf.” To Clients Overview  |
