Madcap is a prototype system for using

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to automatically segment and highlight a

video stream Video on demand (VOD) is a media distribution system that allows users to access videos without a traditional video playback device and the constraints of a typical static broadcasting schedule. In the 20th century, broadcasting in the form of o ...

that was designed by Dan Russell's group at PARC. The digital video of weekly forums was stored on a

media server A media server is a computer appliance or an application software that stores digital media (video, audio or images) and makes it available over a network. Media servers range from servers that provide video on demand to smaller personal comput ...

, any events such as clapping were marked and time-stamped. Member notes from attendees with laptops were stored. The audio stream was transcribed. All these were used as annotations and were cross indexed. The development of this system is mentioned in

John Seely Brown John Seely Brown (born 1940), also known as "JSB", is an American researcher who specializes in organizational studies with a particular bend towards the organizational implications of computer-supported activities. Brown served as Director of Xer ...

's work ''Growing up Digital'' and his book ''The Social Life of Information''.

External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20070305070159/http://www.usdla.org/html/journal/FEB02_Issue/article01.html * http://www.rice.edu/projects/code/broadband.html * http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jfc/hcc/F00/abstracts/russell.html

References

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