Podcasting

Glossary

aggregator
A program used to collect and read RSS and Atom feeds. Also known as a newsreader, news aggregator, and RSS aggregator. Some readers exist as stand-alone programs and others operate as extensions of Web browsers or e-mail programs; still others are available online so feeds can be read independently of the computer used to collect them.
blog
Short for "weblog," a frequently updated website with a single or multiple authors expressing opinions, observations, or free associations in a conversational tone, on subjects ranging from general interest to special topics, typically with entries archived chronologically. Blogs may increasingly include video ("vlogs"), audio ("podcasts"), or photos.
Creative Commons
A nonprofit organization offering tools and guidance for artists and authors who wish to release some rights to their material under certain conditions while still maintaining their copyright. See the Creative Commons Web site for more information.
Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
A 1998 United States copyright law that criminalizes production and dissemination of technology to circumvent measures taken to protect copyright and that increases the penalties for copyright infringement on the Internet. See the Wikipedia entry on DMCA for more information.
enclosure
Describes a media object attached to an item. Users can subscribe to podcasts using RSS (Really Simple Syndication), which is a dialect of XML comprised of element and sub-element tags that describe data. The enclosure sub-element tag is used to describe a media object attached to an item.
fair use
Policy for legal use of copyrighted material in academic settings, based on four characteristics: amount, purpose, nature, and effect on the market. See the site UT System's Fair Use of Copyrighted Materials for more information.
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
A federal law designed to protect student privacy by controlling access to and the release of educational records. Educational records include any information recorded by the university in any form that can identify, or be traced back to, an individual student. See the UT Registrar's FERPA Web site for more information.
feed
Also known as an RSS or Atom feed, refers to the XML code for the specific content being syndicated. It "feeds" the user the information he/she requests.
intellectual property
Materials, processes, or information to which are attached rights relating to their authors, including ownership of papers, experiments, and other intellectual products. The means for protecting intellectual property include copyrights, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets. See the site UT System's Crash Course in Copyright for more information
iPod
A brand of portable digital audio player designed and marketed by Apple Computer. See the Wikipedia entry for iPod for more information.
iTunes
Digital media player software, available for Mac and Windows, used for playing, organizing, and purchasing digital music, video, audiobooks, and podcasts. Developed by Apple Computer, iTunes is also used as the interface to manage digital content on Apple's iPod digital audio player.
MP3
A popular digital audio encoding and compression format, designed to reduce the amount of data required to represent audio while preserving the sound quality, to most listeners, of the original uncompressed audio.
podcast
The label for an RSS feed containing audio. Syndicated audio content.
podcatcher
Podcasting client software on your machine that downloads and aggregates podcasts. Examples include iTunes and iPodder.
ProfCast
A versatile, powerful, yet very simple to use tool for recording presentations including PowerPoint and/or Keynote slides for creating enhanced podcasts. ProfCast provides a low cost solution for recording and distributing lectures, special events, and presentations as podcasts. ProfCast offers an integrated workflow that makes creating, recording, and publishing podcasts easy.

ProfCast provides live presentation recording, synchronization of slides with audio, Keynote and PowerPoint support, RSS generation, and publishing support.

All elements of your presentation, including slide timings, bullet point builds, and voice narration, are recorded. ProfCast allows you to record your
presentation as you give it, using either Apple's Keynote or Microsoft
PowerPoint. ProfCast also helps you publish your recorded presentation as an
enhanced podcast, complete with RSS.
http://www.profcast.com
 
RSS
An application of XML using W3C’s Resource Description Framework (RDF). Also know as Really Simple Syndication, RDF Site Summary, and Rich Site Summary.
streaming
A method of delivery of media content (audio, video, etc.) that is consumed (read, heard, viewed) while it is being delivered.
syndication
Process of creating and serving feeds for the content of a site. See the Wikipedia entry for Web syndication for more information.
webcast
Method of delivering audio/video content (live or recorded) designed for Internet transmission.
XML
Acronym for eXtensible Markup Language. HTML tells how a page should look; XML gives it meaning. RSS feeds are comprised of XML code that enables Web sites to talk to aggregators.