All the viewer needs: How user-centered design helps to develop and operate an open repository for audiovisual media

The amount of audiovisual material in science is rising sharply. At the same time, adequate repositories for this particular type of research output are rare. Neither text and data repositories nor platforms such as YouTube and Vimeo can meet users' needs for scientific audiovisual materials. Audiovisual repositories have to provide innovative tools as well as a stable and reliable infrastructure. To meet the user needs the TIB AV-Portal was developed based on a user-centered design approach. Today it offers automated video analysis with scene, speech, text and image recognition and provides free access to approximately 18,000 videos from science and technology. Our presentation will show use case scenarios of audiovisual material in research and education from recent user interviews. Moreover, the TIB AV-Portal is presented as a reliable repository for scientific videos and the potential for further development and lessons learned will be discussed.