Intelligent Television

Video for culture & education

Collegium

Jeff Ubois

Archiving and access solutions

Jeff Ubois (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)), based in Silicon Valley, is director of archiving and access solutions at Intelligent Television. He has co-produced three of Intelligent Television’s recent conferences —“Online Video and the Future of Television,” Berkeley, September 2005; “The Economics of Open Content,” Cambridge, January 2006; and “Culture, Commerce, and Public Media,” New York, June 2006. Previously, he was staff research associate at the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California, Berkeley, where he developed approaches to measure the accessibility of archival holdings. He is a consultant to variety of commercial and non-commercial institutions concerned with the mass digitization of video, including WNET/Channel 13 and BitTorrent. For the Internet Archive, he has contributed to efforts to managing orphan works, maintaining archival integrity, and managing the collection and retention of digital library usage data. He writes about issues in television archiving and digital video at http://www.archival.tv. His articles have appeared in First Monday, D-Lib, the Journal of Digital Information, Release 1.0, ComputerWorld, and the publications of Ferris Research, a San Francisco-based consultancy specializing in collaboration software.

What we're writing

Innovation, Power, and Responsibility

Funding Media, Strengthening Democracy: Grantmaking for the 21st Century

Video Use in Higher Education: Options for the Future

On Building a New Market for Culture: Virtue and Necessity in a Screen-Based Culture

Good Terms - Improving Commercial-Noncommercial Partnerships for Mass Digitization

Tools to explore

Video Interactions for Teaching and Learning (VITAL) is a web-based learning environment that enables students to view, analyze, and communicate ideas with video. VITAL was originally created to help students practice their observation and interpretation skills in developmental psychology courses at Columbia University’s Teachers College. Today VITAL is deployed in a wide range of courses and disciplines across Columbia University, from the School of Social Work to the School of the Arts.

Archives for today

San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive

The San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive, established in 1982, preserves more than 4,000 hours of newsfilm, documentaries, and other programs produced in northern California between 1939 and 2005. Among the treasures recently put online are 1960s films of James Baldwin and Maya Angelou and Marlon Brando speaking at the funeral of Black Panther Bobby Hutton. The Archive is part of San Francisco State University Library’s Department of Special Collections.

What we're watching

Forum Network
Involving public media and partners in video online.

Vectors
A new journal in a dynamic vernacular.

Photograph of Jesus
Plus a group shot of the men on the moon.

What we're reading

Mobile Video Capture Soars; Now Brace Yourself for Views and Uploads

Pew reports 34 % of U.S. cell phone customers use their phones to record video. GigaOm reports on this, and notes that YouTube mobile videos increased 160 percent in 2009. Visit Mobile Video Capture Soars; Now Brace Yourself for Views and Uploads

http://wendy.seltzer.org/anticircumvention.pdf

Wonderful piece by Wendy Seltzer about DRM, anti-circumvention, and innovation. "DRM frustrates lawful use and the creation of new technology products with- out saving the entertainment companies from the uncompensated reproduction they feared. In the meantime, it forecloses the open innovation that could lead them and society toward new options that could be better for [...]

AIMS project / born digital archives

"The AIMS project, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, represents a co-operative strategy among four partner institutions, to energize collection development in the area of born-digital papers, and to empower librarians and archivists in the management of born-digital assets. The four partners in the project led by the University of Virginia are Stanford University, [...]

Digital Lives

Digital Lives has produced some of the best work on personal archiving, and is holding a seminar about it on Monday, 5 July. Visit Digital Lives