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Dalet digital media systems facilitate the management of rich media across educational organizations: journalism schools leverage Dalet News Suite tapeless newsroom solutions to implement real-world broadcast training platforms; academic organizations take advantage of Dalet Media Library to implement on-line media libraries that reference audio and video material, facilitating their repurposing as course material and training assets; universities and campuses leverage Dalet ActiveLog to automatically record courses and distribute the resulting recordings as podcasts and e-Learning applications.
Because Dalet solutions run on standard IT infrastructure, they can be easily customized to meet the requirements of both the smallest and largest projects. As a result, their total cost of ownership remains remarkably low. Combined with Dalet special academic pricing and financing options for educational institutions, this greatly facilitates the implementation of modern digital training infrastructures.
Digital technology is drastically changing broadcast journalism. J-schools face the challenge of having to adapt their curriculum so as to train and empower their students for today’s and tomorrow’s newsroom environments. Because Dalet solutions were specifically designed from the start for tapeless environments, they provide unique features and benefits for schools that offer training in broadcast journalism, media communications and television production:
Learning the “grammar of the edit” with comprehensive and easy-to-use editing tools; because Dalet production tools are designed by journalists for journalists, they constitute the ideal toolset for learning the “grammar of the edit” in a digital world; Award-winning products like Dalet Surfer for audio editing and Dalet MediaCutter for broadcast video help students focus on the art of telling the story;
Experimenting with collaborative workflows; as isolated edit suites and lonely stringers give way to internet-based news gathering, digital workflows that involve multiple users with various skill sets become the norm. Dalet NewsWire and News Suite newsroom solutions provide true workflow engines that allow students to experiment with status, notification and versioning helping them better understand the challenges and issues of modern newsrooms;
Experiencing trimedia news production; media convergence requires broadcasters to leverage their content across multiple platforms and journalism schools need to train multi-skilled professionals with know-how in radio, television and interactive news production. Dalet News Suite is the only trimedia newsroom that truly meets the requirements of such converged news production environments.
In addition, to providing the tools needed for learning modern news production, Dalet solutions present the unique benefit of being open platforms that easily integrate with third-party editing, production or play-out tools such as Apple Final Cut Pro HD, Avid edit suites or Blackmagic Design boards.
A number of J-schools around the world already take advantage of Dalet flexible newsroom solutions to train students and professionals to tapeless broadcast news production:
Washington and Lee University, USA
Washington and Lee University (www.wlu.edu), well known for its journalism and mass communications program, implemented Dalet News Suite for all of its news production and broadcast needs. The Dalet news production solution allows student journalists and faculty members of Washington and Lee to prepare news for television, radio and on-line - including the Award-winning Rockbridge Report.
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
The dean of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) chose Dalet News Suite to better prepare students for working in Spanish broadcast organizations, many of which use Dalet broadcast production tools. Dalet News Suite is used as the core news preparation and production tool for UAB radio and television programs. Dalet comprehensive and flexible workflow tools let professors simultaneously monitor story production and student participation.
Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Germany
The Konrad Adenauer Foundation (Konrad Audenauer Stiftung) selected Dalet Radio Suite for its school of journalism. Konrad Adenauer Foundation management felt strongly that students learn the art of journalism using real-world production tools. Dalet Radio Suite provides tools for agency wire feed ingest, story creation, run down management, and playout of packages - truly emulating a real-world facility.
The African Center for Improvement of Journalists, Tunisia
The Centre Africain de Perfectionnement des Journalistes et Communicateurs (CAPJC) chose Dalet News Suite to modernize its entire training infrastructure. Dalet enables CAPJC journalists to view feeds, write stories, build rundowns as well as edit audio and video packages. Its asset management capabilities effectively control the entire broadcast operations, providing CAPJC with a cutting edge training environment.
The use of Dalet digital media systems in education reaches beyond journalism schools. An increasing number of academies and training organizations take advantage of Dalet Media Library to aggregate and distribute audio-visual material. The resulting multimedia on-line catalogues empower both classroom and on-line based trainings. Based on DaletPlus unique media asset management features, Dalet Media Library offers a number of key benefits to such ventures:
Managing media from a variety of sources; Dalet Media Gateways facilitate the import and aggregation of multiple media sources; embedded conversion engines ensure the automatic conversion of high resolution material to low-bit rate proxy versions so as to authorize on-line shot selection and story-boarding;
Taking advantage of a flexible metadata engine; Dalet Asset Manager supports standard metadata schemas such as Dublin Core and empowers system administrators to easily customize metadata sets so as to fine-tune the descriptive information associated to rich media assets;
Automating content distribution; Dalet advanced user right management and web based client technology facilitates access to aggregated media by users; advanced integration with third party applications can be optimized using the Services Oriented Architecture compliant Dalet Application Programming Interface (API).
A number of education and training organizations around the world already take advantage of Dalet Media Library to create on-line media archives:
Intel Corporation
Intel Corporation uses Dalet Media Library to aggregate content for its in-house e-Learning programs. Training videos filmed in DV with post-production equipment are imported and tagged with descriptive metadata. Media is converted to Windows Media for distribution across the corporate intranet.
Dalet digital media systems can also be used to deploy digital recording networks across campuses and University buildings. As a logging and monitoring platform, Dalet ActiveLog provides a number of unique features that facilitate the implementation of such multi-site recording environments:
Securing the recording of multi-channel audio and video; the Dalet ActiveLog loop ingest recording engine continuously records incoming feeds in a First In First Out (FIFO) buffer ensuring that no event is ever missed; ingest material is then extracted according to scheduled or last-minute recording jobs;
Guaranteeing scalability; Dalet NetBack replication engine allows for the implementation of large scale systems across multiple LANs and WANs;
Making media conversion seamless; Dalet Conversion engines run as back-office processes ensuring the automated format (CODEC and wrapper) conversion of ingest material hence facilitating content distribution to third party systems such as PodCast servers.