What are they?

Searchable, customizable repositories of Mediasite content, representing a video library.

Features

•     Showcase and channel registration

•     Showcases include spotlight channels with selected presentations displayed prominently.

•     Can customize channel navigation

•     Supports video previews

•     Supports social media widgets and buttons, third-party add-ons, and SEO keywords

•     Showcase channel sharing (links via email, embedding in website)

•     Supports comments

•     Supports time-based annotations

•     Moderators can launch the Moderate application from Showcase to manage questions from the audience as well as comments and annotations.

What are they optimized for?

Browsing and searching video collections organized by channels.

Applications

•     Creating an enterprise YouTube™

•     Video portal for event, conference, or department

Methods of aggregating content in them

•     Automatically add presentations by linking to a Mediasite folder and optionally filtering on a search term

•     Automatically add presentations using search terms

•     Manually add a presentation from its Publish tab 

Search features

Users can enter words or phrases in the search field and Mediasite will scan through the following items to locate presentations containing the specified terms:

•     Indexed video (closed caption) and slide text

•     Tags and presentation metadata, including custom fields

•     Comments

•     Annotations

Considerations:

•     When indexed video or slide text is included in a showcase’s search results, timeline hits appear for them. Users can use these to view presentations at the times when the search term is found.

•     Comments and annotations are indexed. Presentations containing comments or annotations meeting the search criteria appear in the results.