Minimum core coverage time: 3 hours
Topics:
- Digital libraries
- Media formats Capture, authoring and production tools
- Compression
- Streaming media
Core learning outcomes:
- Describe major digital libraries.
- Describe media acquisition tools and techniques to create and record media.
- Describe media acquisition tools and techniques to capture, digitize, and sample media contents.
- Describe media acquisition tools and techniques for multimedia authoring.
- Compare/contrast graphic media file format characteristics such as color depth, compression and CODEC.
- Compare/contrast streaming media file format characteristics such as color depth, bit rate, CODEC and server requirements.
- Compare/contrast concepts of graphic file formats including lossy/lossless compression, color palettes and CODECs.
- Discuss the issues involved in deploying/serving media content.
Advanced learning outcomes:
- Integrate digital libraries with other media contents.
- Apply media acquisition tools and techniques in creating and recording media.
- Apply media acquisition tools and techniques in capturing and digitizing media contents.
- Select and use multimedia authoring tools.
- Explain and compare media file formats including lossy vs. lossless compression, color palettes, streaming formats, and CODECs.
- Explain and compare the inter-operability of formats.
- Deploy and serve media contents within Web applications.
Textbook And Reading :
Module Plan:
– Introduction
– Digital Library
– Media Format (part one)
– Media Format (part two)
– Capture Image
– Capture Audio
– Capture Video
– Compression
– Metadata
– Streamming Media