Cactus Communications (CACTUS) and Cadmore Media announced today an end-to-end media capture and publication solution for societies wishing to expertly publish the output of scientific conferences, whether they are being held virtually or in person.
With CACTUS’s global network of subject specialists, professional media production, and transcription and translation services, and Cadmore Media’s specialist streaming media publishing environment and media library technologies, the two companies in collaboration can provide everything a conference organizer needs to provide on-demand access to conferences throughout the year.
Cadmore Media’s vision is to help scholarly and professional organizations publish media content, including conference recordings, in the same expert way as would be true for journals and books—with DOIs, integration with library discovery, SEO, citations, descriptive metadata, and chapters and segments, to name a few—and all done in compliance with WCAG 2.0 guidelines.
CACTUS is a global scholarly, medical communication, and technology solutions company that helps researchers extend the reach of their research output. In recent years, through its brand Impact Science, CACTUS has been offering post-publication research communication services such as videos, infographics, and article summaries to further the reach of academic output among peers, policymakers, and the public. Conference recordings are a growing artifact type that need dissemination support and CACTUS is keen to offer its subject and video expertise to meet this need.
“Conference recordings and streaming are authoritative sources of information. Working with Cadmore Media on conference videos and podcasts will help CACTUS deliver on its mission to find a wider audience for a researcher’s work, and making it a published and preserved item allows researchers to make their presentations citable and available to future audiences,” said Nikesh Gosalia, Senior Vice President, Global Academic & Publisher Relations at CACTUS. “For conference organizers, it offers a new product to monetize, to give conference-goers access to the parallel sessions they missed, to an extended audience that could not justify the time or travel to attend the entire conference, as a means of global outreach, and for the on-demand element of a virtual conference.”
“We are delighted to have the opportunity to collaborate with CACTUS to provide a complete solution to conference organizers,” said Violaine Iglesias, Cadmore Media’s CEO & Co-founder. “Adding transcriptions to conference presentations allows for transcript search, enormously simplifying the consumption of conference presentations after the event—perfect for the extremely time-poor scientists who need to see this important content.”