Intelligent Television

Video for culture & education

Open Video Studio

Intelligent Television has established a new Open Video Studio to cost-effectively produce more video resources for the open education and open content movement. The objectives of the Studio—based in New York but networking educational production facilities across the United States and abroad—are threefold:

* to evaluate the use of video in teaching and learning;
* to catalyze video production for education; and
* to build new tools—editing, annotation, search—for more cost-efficient video production and distribution.

The Studio has been producing educational video at/for the following institutions—the British Film Institute, Cambridge University, CERN, Columbia University, Georgetown, University George Washington University, Harvard University, Illinois, Library of Congress, MIT, National Academy of Sciences, New York Law School, New York University, Open University, Oxford University, Thirteen/WNET, University of California-Berkeley, and University of Southern California, among others—and has begun to structure and deploy innovative networked studio production capabilities in New York, Berkeley, Cambridge, Champaign-Urbana, and London.

In addition, the Studio has begun hosting planning and production meetings for educators, technologists, video producers, investors, attorneys, underwriters, and other stakeholders who are helping Intelligent Television articulate a sustainability plan for the studio’s new productions and research and development projects.

In the years ahead, Intelligent Television will deploy the Studio to organize new multi-institutional productions involving consortia of universities, libraries, museums, and production entities, and through such productions build a new and distributed educational video production network. Through the Studio, Intelligent Television also will help establish a new form of educational video commons and help to define best practices in educational video access and preservation.

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