The Process and Evolution

In order to explain why and how the "VOLUMEONE" became what it is today, let us start with describing what the "VOLUMEZERO," the original version in multi-channel does.

By using "VOLUMEZERO," any program administrator (shown as "Panelist" here in the Figure.1) of a museum with assigned ID and a Password issued by DMC Institute (the administrator of the whole platform itself) could upload their movie files on the Web wherever they are and make these files video-castable by flash video Web streaming almost instantly. "VOLUMEZERO" was released on May 10, 2006, as the first version "VOLUMEONE" and changed its name in mid-September to "VOLUMEZERO" when the new version "VOLUMEONE" was introduced.

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Now let's take a look at the "VOLUNEONE," the current version. The team at DMC institute started testing of the new "VOLUMEONE" (shown in the Figure. 2 below) in late August 2006 as the team was getting ready for the sneak preview at the time of CIDOC (The International Committee for Documentation of the International Council of Museums) conference in Mid-September, but the official date of release was not until October 23, 2007.

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The most dramatic change with this version is the start of video pod-casting via i-Tunes and addition of a section to distribute news that are independent of descriptions of video content. Now the users can search for a content of their interest by categories such as "museums", "history", "short movies", etc. and by keywords or search tags.

With the completion of this current version "VOLUMEONE," DMC Institute at Keio University has launched a year round collaboration with Kawasaki City Museum in August 2006 and after the official release of the new "VOLUMEONE", the team helped Tokyo FILMeX, the international film festival of independent movies with focus on Asia, for distributing their promotional trailers and pod-casting these video clips. Interviews with directors and actors on the spot were added to their Web site everyday and widely appreciated by the followers of this film festival.