Introduction

Brill signed an agreement with Cadmore Media for the integration of audio and video in online publications. Besides hosting the content, Cadmore offers services such as a management portal for editing the content, transcriptions (in different languages) etc. This pages gives an overview of the main functionality and specifies the instructions that are required in the JATS and BITS XML to include audio and video fragments in an article or chapter.

Management portal

A dedicated management portal is available at https://app.cadmoremedia.com/Platform/BRILL. Main functionality of the portal comprises:

1. Upload of audio and video files. For each file, additional metadata and settings can be entered. After upload, each file gets a unique Cadmore ID. This ID is required to play the file at a specific location in the publication.
2. Addition of tags, to be able to search through the repository of files. It is for example possible to create tags with journal acronyms and thus indicate in which journal a specific file is used.
3. Addition of transcripts in multiple languages. Such transcripts are searchable and can be played synchronized with the audio or video.
4. Select a thumbnail illustration to show in the publication. This does not need to be the first frame of a video fragment.
5. Usage data to see how many times a specific files has been viewed/played.

XML sample

<p><fig specific-use="cadmore" position="float" orientation="portrait">
                        <alternatives>
                            <media xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
                                xlink:href="https://stream.cadmore.media/b1abf5a7-d908-4425-9048-f46f1a50f163" content-type="media/mp4"
                                position="float" orientation="portrait"/>
                        </alternatives>
</fig></p>