Audio and Video integration

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 page 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 instructions

The <fig>-element with @specific-use="cadmore" is used to specify the video fragment to be included in the HTML-presentation of the article. The basic layout of the xml is given in the following sample. Note that "b1abf5a7-d908-4425-9048-f46f1a50f163" is the Cadmore ID that is generated in the management portal. Additional instructions are available to include the transcription of spoken text or a description of the veideo. See Media files hosted with Cadmore for additional information. 

Sample video integration

Below the sample xml for te integration of a video fragment in the full xml of an article. 

<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/player/b1abf5a7-d908-4425-9048-f46f1a50f163" content-type="media/mp4"
                                position="float" orientation="portrait"/>
                        </alternatives>
</fig></p>

Including this XML will result in an inline video player in the full text display of the article:

Sample audio integration

 Below the sample xml for te integration of an audio fragment in the full xml of an article. 

<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/player/857c5451-e1b2-4524-bd15-f82bd8becddd" content-type="media/wav" position="float" orientation="portrait"/>
                        </alternatives>
</fig></p>

At the location of this XML snippet in the full text, a default image of a microphone is presented, together with the buttons to play and pause the audio fragment.

Procedure

Just as with images, video fragments should be delivered together with the manuscript.

1. Provide a table, listing the filenames of the fragments and a short description.
2. Add an empty column to the table for the Cadmore ID:
3. Upload the files in the Cadmore management portal. After uploading, the Cadmore ID is known and can be added to the table in the empty column.
4. Make sure that it is clear for the typesetter where to include each fragment in the full XML version of the publication. As indicated above, the typesetter needs to include the Cadmore ID.

sample of the table