What is UCLS?

David Steidley

I am looking into possible migration with content that is currently stored in a SharePoint environment. I see in the release notes that there is this UCLS XML based format... I am not sure what that is, and Googling it doesn't seem to help. Can some one please point me in the right direction?

Kathryn

Hi David

It stands for Universal Content Library Specification, and it is an open, XML-based format for describing collections of videos so that they can be imported into a central repository.

You can find a press release from when this was made available here: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/panopto-announces-the-easiest-way-to-consolidate-video-collections-300652433.html

Also, the documentation and schemas can be found here: https://github.com/Panopto/universal-content-library-specification

Charles Barbour

Maybe it's a typo? I know there is a UCS format. Universal Capture Specification

David Steidley

As a follow up to that, is there any kind of documentation on how to use Python/JavaScript/REST to get a video file (*.mp4) that exists in SharePoint... and have it end up in Panopto... without first storing it on my PC?

I know we do something similar to this as we have the Panopto integration with Moodle.

Kathryn

I don't think we have any public documentation specific to that scenario.

You can read more about uploading files using our API here, and for questions around using the API to transfer/upload video files, you can post in our API forum. The Dev team responds directly to posts made there.

I would also be happy to open a Support ticket with our team for you if you would like to get additional information.

David Steidley

Thank you! I will look into this some more...