Indexing Plugins

Design and implementation of plug-ins to existing presentation applications in order to collect SCORM-compliant indexing tags and to feed them to the WP1 recording tool

Feasibility study

  • State-of-the-art of integrated metadata generation capabilities of existing presentation applications (Adobe Acrobat, OpenOffice, Microsoft PowerPoint, etc.)
  • Investigation of metadata generation capabilities of widespread operating systems (Windows, Linux). Metadata could be collected at the operating system level from the title of the window in which the presentation system is running.
  • Selection of the subset of presentation applications and operating systems addressed by the project

Design and implementation of plug-ins generating SCORM-compliant indexing tags

Integration of the plug-ins and the WP1 recording tool

Outcomes

Plug-ins to presentation applications like Adobe Acrobat, OpenOffice or Microsoft PowerPoint able to generate indexing tags to be used for indexing WP1 outcome.

Deliverables on this CD

Microsoft PowerPoint plugin (V3 Capture) for capturing a screencast from presentation is freely available under Install.