Yovisto is ...
... a Web 2.0 platform to upload, share, search, tag, and discuss
academic videos. In addition to the function of a video search engine,
yovisto enables the search within lecture videos.
Yovisto provides an automated mechanism to generate a full-text index of the videos.
With yovisto it is possible to describe video content collaboratively, additionally
users can place keywords or labels (tagging) at any position within a video
(collaborative tagging) and they can start or carry on discussions belonging
to any position within the video. Moreover, users can write or edit wiki-pages to
enrich the video content with further information, such as images, hyperlinks, and
text. The content based search functionality of yovisto is the most important
additional benefit for the user and allows an efficient search through yovisto's
repository.
Company
Yovisto was founded as an university spin off at Friedrich Schiller University,
Jena, Germany. Yovisto was initially funded as OSOTIS within the Exist Seed program
of the European Social Fund (ESF) and the German Ministry of Commerce (BMWi)
and has developed a sophisticated and innovative video search engine implementing
a pinpoint search within academic video material (www.yovisto.com). Yovisto
brings profound expertise in video analysis technology, isochronous and semantic
annotation of multimedia data, metadata standards, and semantic technologies.
In cooperation with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich yovisto has developed the
open source Multimedia Portal System
REPLAY.
REPLAY is an entire open end-to-end
solution to automatically produce, handle, index, archive, distribute and interactivly consume
audiovisual recordings on a large scale with a long term perspective.
REPLAY is the core
software for the Opencast community, the unique network of international institutions, dedicated to multimedia
services in higher education.
With specialized innovative IT expertise we deliver high quality individual software solutions
and services around
REPLAY for your institution or company.
CEO Jörg Waitelonis 
CIO Dr. Harald Sack
