Whizzard education solution successfully launched

University of Newcastle has launched the Whizzard education solution for its audiovisual ‘Living Histories’ archives and library.

Over 6000 university staff, researchers and affiliates now have access to the solution.

Whizzard builds on Linius Technologies’ video virtualisation engine and allows users to create hyper-personalised video clips. This is done by using a deep library of content that is ordinarily extremely difficult to locate, as well as storage-intensive.

“What took us six weeks we can now do in minutes with Whizzard. With a very quick search I discovered a video clip for which I had been searching for more than two years,” said Dr Ann Hardy, University of Newcastle Coordinator of GLAMx and Digitisation Projects.

Early signs indicate that Whizzard will be invaluable for the university’s library, students, research communities and, eventually, members of the public.

“We are incredibly proud to be the first university globally to launch Whizzard, and with that having the opportunity to input into product features and design. We are excited by the first use-case now implemented for historical archives and increasing our research capabilities across GLAMx. With this first phase now launched, we are looking forward to working with Linius on the next iteration of Whizzard,” said Anthony Molinia, CIO, University of Newcastle.

Linius CEO James Brennan said: “This is a significant milestone for Linius and the rollout of our education solution for the higher-education sector. Throughout the development period we discovered multiple use cases, including a market opportunity and need for the product across galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAMx); which is a proposition marketable and repeatable for Linius to a much broader audience.”

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