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Jeff Ubois

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Jeff Ubois

Jeff Ubois (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)) is a California-based consultant to libraries, museums, archives, and foundations engaged in mass digitization.  He is particularly focused on new approaches to personal digital archiving and working for a variety of U.S. and EU-based organizations engaged with moving image preservation, including Beeld en Geluid in the Netherlands. 

Prior to these associations, Mr. Ubois was a consultant to Thirteen/WNET, the public broadcasting station in New York City, and a staff research associate at the University of California, Berkeley, where he investigated access to television archives.  For the Internet Archive, he has worked on managing orphan works, maintaining archival integrity, and managing the collection and retention of digital library usage data.  He has worked as a consultant to the Sunlight Foundation, OCLC, Cisco Systems, and the Smithsonian Institution, and has been published in First Monday, D-Lib, Release 1.0, ACM Interactions, Computerworld, and the Journal of Digital Information.

 
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MediaThread logoMediaThread is a next-generation platform for deep exploration, close analysis, and customized organization of web-based multimedia content. Designed at Columbia University’s Center for New Media Teaching and Learning, MediaThread is built on open-source software and enables users to view video closely, clip segments, attach annotations and tags, and organize them with other media for scholarly analysis.

Archives for today

San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive

James Baldwin talking with students

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.

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