An Online Crowd-video service for collaborative event recording

Abstract

Each day, technological evolution allows access to information in new ways. Traditional text-based newspapers were, in times past the main source of information, but now there is more and more options. First, with radio transmissions, then with the television, and more recently with the Internet. Nowadays, it is easy to get access to information and multimedia through images and video which can be accessed anytime, anywhere. This new source of information is gaining more and more fans, not only because it is easy to reach, but also because it offers the information needed in quick and effective ways. This technological evolution does not stop, so now mankind wants to be more than mere receptors, they also want to take an active part in this process as a source, sharing their own information through those new technologies, with people from all over the world. In this dissertation, we developed a collaborative system where users will share their own videos and collaborate between themselves to develop events related to a particular event. Our intention is to engage users into contributing to grow the available data regarding that event. With this solution we want to offer, not only some features that similar and already existing systems like Youtube and Vimeo present, that we assume to be basic and necessary, but also some new like timelines and the possibility to every user contribute to them..