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The new Web Lectures video player

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On June 26, 2024

In CDS

Today is an exciting day at the CDS website! We’ve been working hard behind the scenes to bring you some exciting improvements to your user experience. As of this moment, you can start enjoying the benefits of these enhancements:

Brand new Web Lectures player: thanks to the fantastic work of our colleagues from the Webcast and Recording service, we’ve said goodbye to the previous Web Lectures player (based on THEOplayer and JW Player) and welcomed a new video player, powered by Paella. This sleek, modern player is designed to make your video-watching experience smoother and more enjoyable than ever before.

Seamless Access: You’ll notice a significant change in how you access the restricted Web Lectures. No more redirections or weird pop-ups asking for credentials—restricted videos now display seamlessly, thanks to the integration with the CERN Single Sign-On (SSO).

Enhanced Download Options: We’ve always offered download options, and now it’s even easier to distinguish between lecture slides and presenter recordings. Also, subtitles are now available for download as well.

Smoothly Embedded Videos: If you embed videos from the CDS platform, you’ll experience a seamless transition to the new video player.

The new CDS, based on InvenioRDM

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On January 12, 2023

In CDS, CDS-RDM

With the LTS release (v9) and the latest release (v10), InvenioRDM has reached the maturity needed for production-ready digital repository websites. InvenioRDM is a generic data management repository, developed by our team in collaboration with many partners all over the world. Free to use and open-source.

The InvenioRDM demo website.

As already done by several partners (e.g. Caltech University, TU Graz University, TU Wien University), our team worked hard to create a preview version of the future CDS, available at https://sandbox-cds-rdm.web.cern.ch.

The new CDS website, based on InvenioRDM.

As first milestone, we have created and deployed the new instance of CDS and also migrated a selected set of records, metadata-only. This initial setup will allow us to iterate with the process of data migration, expanding incrementally the number of records and improving the data quality.

In the first quarter of this year, we will continue working on the InvenioRDM product, adding more features and integrating them in the new CDS website.

We will also start an analysis of the feature-set available in the current CDS, but still missing in the new platform: thanks to this, we will be able to come up with a plan for the next steps.

We are very excited to finally see the new CDS taking shape! Stay tuned for future announcements!

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