Carlos Turro Ribalta

Carlos Turro is M.D. and PhD from the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia. He is working since 1992 for that University and since 200 now is Head of Media Services department. From that place he has developed the Polimedia service as a system to create Video Learning Objects. Currently, the Polimedia system is used from more than ten universities and has produced more than 8000 learning objects. The Polimedia system was granted with the Spanish national award FICOD 2009 for the promotion of digital services.

He has and is working in different EU- funded projects. Now he is working at the Translectures project, aimed to the automatic and interactive transcription and translation of video lectures and the REC:all project aiming to research how lectures are currently being captured and used.

He and his university are also involved in the Opencast community of Lecture Recordings.

Links:

• TransLectures: http://translectures.eu
• REC:all: http://www.rec-all.info/
• Polimedia: http://polimedia.upv.es/
• Opencast: http://opencast.org