AN INTERCHANGE FORMAT FOR SECOND-SCREEN EDUCATIONAL PLATFORMS

A second-screen platform focused on education is a new educational concept. The challenge is to provide a consistent educational environment involving SmartTV platforms, mobile devices, web applications and educational content management systems. This paper presents an interchange format for specifying the multimedia content, a format that extends the standard EPUBv3. The EPUBv3 vocabulary has been extended with special tags for describing, cataloging and relating the multimedia content with the television show. During the European Ro-TWIRL project, an entire ecosystem of tools has been developed for creating and managing the content in this specific format.