Canal-U: the audio-visual platform serving open science

House of Human Sciences Foundation Reminds us of her twentieth anniversary^HAnniversary of existence U channelThe audio-visual platform for higher education and scientific research “Explore, Understand and Share”. Consisting of 360 channels, 25,000 speakers, and 50,000 freely accessible video and podcast resources, this multidisciplinary collection is richly documented to explore and share science in a different way.

Interviews, conferences, seminars, courses, reports… Canal-U presents an audio-visual scientific heritage that illustrates the science of yesterday and today.

A platform for knowledge production

Designed to meet the needs of Scientific audio-visualThe Canal-U platform is open to all knowledge-producing institutions, without restrictions on disciplines or methodology. Universities, research institutions, laboratories or institutions can create Canal-U and benefit from a free service specifically designed to host, distribute, promote and share their audio-visual resources.

An open access multidisciplinary fund

Canal-U makes available to all audiences, with free and open access, a multidisciplinary audio-visual collection covering all fields of knowledge.

Interviews, conferences, seminars, documentaries and courses are available in video or podcast form and are curated 3 axes Which form the cornerstone of the catalog:

Documented and enriched resources

Chapters, subtitles, transcripts, descriptions, associated documents, etc. U channel offers
All features to enrich audio-visual resources and facilitate their discovery by the user.

At the same time, Canal-U ensures rich, accurate and standardized documentation that ensures optimal resource reference and interoperability with higher education and research information systems.

Smooth and dynamic user experience

The platform offers a large number of features for Conduct complex searches Browse the collection by related content. a Faceted search engine And the Metadata
Enriched It allows you to create targeted searches and discover new related products
On the same topic or same speaker.

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Access to French-speaking scientific audiovisual production

A national reference system, Canal-U compiles today More than 360 contributors And it constitutes A distinguished portal for scientific audiovisual production in French and francophones.
Public and completely freeCanal-U ensures a sustainable and safe environment that helps createAudiovisual scientific heritage accessible to all.

A platform dedicated to open science

Since its establishment in 2001, Canal-U is part of the Open Science movement.

developed Aligned with the FAIR principles (easy to find, accessible, interoperable, reusable)The platform is designed to ensure the dissemination and sharing of scientific audio-visual resources to as many people as possible. The Open Archive Initiative's protocol for metadata collection (OAI-PMH) allows metadata to be efficiently viewed and collected by other research systems and platforms.

to support oEmbed technology makes it easy to embed videos On websites or
External platforms, making Canal-U content easily integrated and referenceable within them
Other digital ecosystems.

About CanalU

Created in 2001, Canal-U is an audiovisual platform for higher education and research serving open science.

Canal-U is specifically designed to meet the needs of the audio-visual sciences, a national system of higher education and research supported by Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research And he drives it House of Human Sciences Foundation.

A platform dedicated to publishing and scientific communication

Open to all knowledge-producing organizations, the platform allows you to easily create a channel, free of charge and without exclusivity obligation, to host, promote and share video and podcast resources.

It is fully public, ensuring an ad-free, sustainable, secure environment that is fully integrated into the higher education and research ecosystem.

A multidisciplinary scientific audio-visual collection available to everyone

Interviews, conferences, seminars, courses, podcasts… Thanks to its many contributors, Canal-U makes a multidisciplinary, richly documented audiovisual collection available to everyone, with free and open access.

With more than 300 channels With 40,000 sources, the Canal-U platform allows you to see and hear the science of yesterday and today in all its diversity.

Open science platform

Since its creation in 2001 by the New Technologies Mission of the Ministry of Higher Education, Canal-U has been part of the open access science movement.

Developed according to the principles of FAIR (easy to find, accessible, interoperable and reusable), the Canal-U platform is richly documented, and facilitates the dissemination and sharing of scientific audiovisual content to as many people as possible.

Canal-U was recognized in 2021 by MESRI as part of its Data Policy, and is a full part of the National System for Open Science.

About Dar Al-Ulum Foundation for Humanity

The Maison des Sciences de l'Homme supports innovative research in the humanities and social sciences, spreading knowledge to as many people as possible.

Established in 1963 by historian Fernand Braudel, FMSH continues the initial project “to promote the study of human societies and the humanities and social sciences at a global level”, while adapting to contemporary realities, to build a world where pluralism of knowledge and its free circulation contribute to progress towards more inclusive and sustainable societies.

For 60 years, FMSH has been advancing knowledge through the humanities and social sciences. As a public utility, it develops infrastructure, services and research support programs for the benefit of all scientific communities.

By supporting approximately 400 researchers from all over the world every year and ensuring the deployment of an enormous capital of scientific resources, the FMSH is the first institution in the humanities and social sciences in France.

A unique model in Europe

Based on international cooperation, the organization's model is based on three pillars:

• Regulating the freedom of movement of scholars and knowledge
  Designed to facilitate the circulation of researchers and writings, the Foundation's scholarly and editorial programs aim to break down barriers and multiply scientific perspectives to enrich human knowledge.
• Provoking dialogue between cultures and disciplines
  An interface between scholarly communities, the Foundation designs and develops infrastructure, services and programmes that enable intellectual pluralism and social inclusion.
• Publishing the results of scientific research: Since its inception, the Foundation has developed a unique expertise in publishing and disseminating scientific results. It thus ensures that everyone – scientific communities, public and private sector decision-makers, civil society actors and citizens – has open and broad access to content to act and positively transform the fate of societies.

This model constitutes the institution's source of work, the strength of its innovation, and its justification for confronting the major challenges facing the modern world.

The Maison des Sciences de l'Homme is called IDEAS.

The IDEAS label is a sign of the quality of its community commitment.

It attests to their approach to continuous improvement in terms of management, financial management and business evaluation.