Intelligent Television

Video for culture & education

Collegium

Peter B. Kaufman

Business, television, new media

Peter B. Kaufman (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)) is president and CEO of Intelligent Television. He executive produces all Intelligent Television media and directs the company’s research and consulting work. He is also an expert consultant on access issues for the Library of Congress Division of Motion Pictures, Broadcast, and Recorded Sound and in 2008 was appointed co-chair of the new Film and Sound Think Tank of the U.K.’s Joint Information Systems Committee. He is a Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute in New York and a member of the Editorial Board of the World Policy Journal. He has served as director of the Open Education Video Project, funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation; Associate Director of the Columbia University Center for New Media Teaching and Learning; a member of the American Council of Learned Societies Commission on Cyberinfrastructure in the Humanities, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; and a member of the Social Science Research Council Digital Cultural Institutions Project, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. Previously, Mr. Kaufman served as founder and president of TV Books, where he negotiated and concluded publishing deals with television networks and independent producers, literary agents, and authors worldwide, and sold majority interest in TV Books to Broadway Video, Lorne Michaels’s television and film company. Mr. Kaufman has served as director of strategic initiatives at Innodata Isogen, a publicly traded media digitization company. He also has served as founder and executive director of PUBWATCH, a nonprofit organization supporting the publishing industries in Central and Eastern Europe, and as director of publications at the Institute for EastWest Studies.

Educated at Cornell University and Columbia University’s W. Averell Harriman Institute for Advanced Study of the Soviet Union, he has written for Publishers Weekly, Scholarly Publishing, Slavic Review, Russian History, The New York Times, The Nation, First Monday, D-Lib, the Times Literary Supplement and International Book Publishing: An Encyclopedia.

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