The Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI) at the University of Toronto is part of a graduate studies program that conducts research in all areas of knowledge media design.
KMDI has just announced the launching of Project Open Source Open Access. It is a "cross-divisional, tri-campus initiative to develop a networked community to share knowledge, enhance coordination, increase awareness, and to encourage research and knowledge mobilisation in this area".
As part of this initiative they will be hosting a lecture series beginning February 10th, 2005. The first speaker will be Michael Geist (Canadian Research Chair in Internet and e-Commerce Law). The series will be webcast live and archived using epresence interactive media (a research project of KMDI). The platform includes, "support for video, audio, and slide broadcasting; slide browsing and review; submitting questions, integrated moderated chat, live software demos and the automated creation of event archives". They are working towards an open source release of this system.
