Research Support
IET-Mediaworks provides two groups of services that are of use to our researchers at UCDavis:
- Media Production Services
- Software Applications.
Media Production Services
We have a team of professional video and audio producer-directors, photographers, graphic artists and animators who are ready to help you develop posters for a conference, photographs for professional journal publications and journal covers, simulations to demonstrate a concept, documentaries, webcasts and many other multimedia production needs you might have to help demonstrate and/or document your research. Contact Mediaworks [mediaworks@ucdavis.edu] for further information and/or a quote.
Software Applications
We provide the campus with a multitude of applications that have numerous uses in your research
- SmartSite Project Sites provides you an online venue to organize your research and collaborate with your colleagues on your research project. SmartSite is available to you free of charge. Visit http://smartsite.ucdavis.edu for more information and access to the SmartSite team.
- Almagest is a multimedia repository that can handle any kind of media, text or data file along with all the metadata that you can think of. This powerful tool allows you to continually add, grow and organize your digital records of your research, along with tying them together with metadata and key words. The metadata capabilities are extremely impressive. Access to Almagest is free of charge as is training. If you need special programming done to add functionality, there may be a charge. Contact Kirk Alexander [kdalex@ucdavis.edu] for more information and a demo.
- Online Communications and Collaboration - We are currently piloting Adobe's Breeze Meeting software which is a powerful online communication and collaboration tool that allows you to do Voice over IP, chat, whiteboard (with complete drawing and text capabilities built in), application sharing, polling, and many other related functions. We are currently running this in pilot mode - but you are welcome to try it out ! A number of our researchers are already using this to confer with their research teams that are spread around the world ! Breeze meeting is available for free to those departments contributing to the Breeze program. If your department is not participating, contact us for individual meeting rates. Contact Charlie Turner [cjturner@ucdavis.edu] to get an account and training.
- Breeze Presenter is a way to create fast content for online delivery. Video record a presentation, combine it with your PowerPoint slides using Presenter, and you will have a searchable, indexed web-ready presentation that you can have streamed, or put on a DVD to have available for fellow researchers or students view privately. Breeze Presenter Licences are available at cost. If you would like Mediaworks to put the presentation together for you, there will be an hourly labor charge. Contact Armando Arbizo [aarbizo@ucdavis.edu] for more information.
- Webcasting and Podcasting - should you wish to webcast your research discoveries or findings - we have a team standing by who can video record and stream your presentation on fairly short notice. We'll give you the URL to provide to your viewers. This is a fee for service production process. Contact Paul VerWey [paverwey@ucdavis.edu] for more information and to make arrangements.