Courts & Tribunals

Engagement & Accessability
Court sessions that are open to the public, should be accessible to everyone. Neither physical disabilities nor geographical constraints should block access to a court session that someone is interested in! In the early days, Court Rooms could settle for audio-only recording, fulfilling their basic duty for the record. But today Video is becoming an essential part of Court Room recording for Court Rooms all over the world. And this is not just because the added value it has when creating a verbatim transcript of the Court Room session, but also because of the desire to create a preservation master for the historical archive or to publish a Live Webcast and Video-on-Demand portal of Court sessions.

Accurate & Archive
The web publication of archived court sessions, is - in some cases - a formal or moral obligation to later generations. Informative metadata allowing the audience to search for names or subjects, is indispensable for a friendly user experience.

The information displayed however should be accurate and absolutely correct! The display of a protected witness's name is a no-go. That is why our unique Mediaboard module on the LogDepot system allows full review and correction possibilities of recorded court sessions, before publishing them. Both speakernames, role, stages can be modified, added, deleted etc.  When everything has been verified the publication of the trial onto the Connected Views Video on Demand platform is a matter of pressing a button. The upload process of the video, audio and all of the metadata is full automatic process, and the session will appear in the cloud when this process is finished successfully.

Even if - despite all good efforts - a mistake is discovered after publication, this mistake can be corrected and the whole court session can be re-published. The Video on Demand platform will automatically determine that this is a re-publication of an existing debate and will replace the debate with the older, previous version.

During the session
The capture of the video signal is done automatically and efficiently. To control the meeting, the court staff can either use our easy web interface, to control the recorder and annotate speaker names and roles (judge, attorney, prosecutor, witness..)  for display during the webcast. But they can also use room automation systems such as Crestron and AMX to start and stop streaming. All of this just to make sure that each action must only performed once!

All those applications can be covered with our solution. LogDepot as the core engine for the recording and live streaming, ConnectedViews as the public portal, together integrated in one seamless workflow.

Full integration with well-known conference systems (Televic Conference, Taiden, Bosch DCN, Shure) allow efficient and robust operation. The Arbor LogDepot system can efficiently dealing with multi-lingual recordings, an essential feature for international Courts or tribunals.