Media and metadata management for capture and access systems in electronic lecturing environments

One of the main challenges facing Web-based multimedia content creators today is the development of cost-effective digital media content for courseware that is reusable and interoperable. Given this, we propose the design and implementation of a model to manage the multimedia and metadata within a system of related topics in a course that is delivered via electronic lectures. This model not only supports the re-purposing and interchange of a course´s digital media content, but also preserves the semantic dependencies and associated media-mapping, of pre-requisite and co-requisite knowledge within a course. Coarse grain or topic-based segmentations of an electronic lecture are used as building blocks to automatically create new, media-rich, electronic lecture experiences of interest to a user and subject to the constraints imposed by the model.