Intelligent Television produces innovative films, television, and online video; conducts research in the future of media; and provides strategic planning and consulting services, all in close association with leading cultural and educational institutions and renowned directors and cinematographers — and all to make educational and cultural material more widely accessible worldwide.
The South
Intelligent Television, Alexandria Productions, Insignia Films, and PBS are producing an epic television, education, and library project on the American South in the 20th century. This project draws upon the work of historians and scholars who link the power of traditional storytelling with new advances in media, information technology, humanities computing, library science, and the digitization of primary documents.
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The Open Education Video Studio
Intelligent Television has begun to establish a new Open Education 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, including public education; and
* to build new tools—editing, annotation, search—for more cost-efficient video production and distribution.
Strategic consulting
Audio-Visual Conservation at The Library of Congress
Located at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Culpeper, Virginia, the Library's newly completed Packard Campus of the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center provides underground storage for this entire collection on 90 miles of shelving, together with extensive modern facilities for the acquisition, cataloging and preservation of all audio-visual formats. The Library has contracted Intelligent Television to provide strategic planning guidance organizing events for the public opening of this facility in 2009.
From Open Culture
Jefferson, Adams and the Declaration of Independence
Without Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, Americans wouldn’t have the Declaration of Independence (listen to a reading here). Rather strangely, both men died on the same day, exactly fifty years after the signing of the Declaration - July 4, 1826. Quite the factoid. Below, we have a clip from HBO’s excellent mini series “John Adams,” [...]
Al Franken, the former SNL comedian, the Harvard graduate, and now US Senator, has a special talent. He can draw the map of America, state-by-state, while chatting up a crowd. Almost makes me feel the 4th of July spirit… Thanks for Eric for this one. Share:
Research
Media content, policy, infrastructure
Video Use in Higher Education
Sponsorship Models for Educational and Cultural Assets Online
Business Planning for a New Audiovisual Archive
Building a New Form of Production Studio
The Economics of Film and Video Distribution in the Digital Age
The “Good Terms” Project
The Open Education Video Project
The Economics of Open Content
“Open Production Initiatives” and Moving-Image Repositories
Marketing Culture in the Digital Age
What we're writing
On building a new market for culture: Virtue and necessity in a screen-based culture
by Peter B. Kaufman
Good terms - improving commercial-noncommercial partnerships for mass digitization
On the utility and uses of video in higher education
by Peter B. Kaufman
Ubiquitous media and the revival of participatory culture
by Jack Brighton
On the utility and uses of video in higher education
by Peter B. Kaufman
Ubiquitous media and the revival of participatory culture
by Jack Brighton
Tools to explore
MediaMatrix is an online application that allows users to isolate, segment, and annotate digital media at MATRIX: The Center for Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences Online, Michigan State University. Through a new agreement with MSU, Intelligent Television is supporting the development of this tool with financial and production resources.
Archives for today
Montage of Albany Movement footage, 1961-1962, from the CRDL
The Civil Rights Digital Library
The Civil Rights Digital Library promotes an understanding of the Movement by helping users discover primary sources and other educational materials from libraries, archives, museums, public broadcasters, and others on a national scale.
What we're reading
Television for extraterrestrials
They's seen the Sopranos and Sponge Bob around Sirius by now, and Star Trek around Arcturus…. Visit Television for extraterrestrials Hype:
/.: DOJ Turns Up the Heat On Google’s Book Deal
Slashdot on the DOJ's interest in GBS. Visit /.: DOJ Turns Up the Heat On Google’s Book Deal Hype:
Abusing Process, Acting the Bully, Killing Debate: Jenzabar is Bad News
Intemperate name-calling is never very attractive, but watching Chia Ling's Jenzabar going after Long Bow and Carma Hinton using ridiculous trademark claims…well, it's difficult to refrain. This is worse than the usual abuse of process because it is taking place in the context of a bigger debate about Tiananmen / June 4, 1989. For folks [...]
Brewster Kahle in WaPo: How Google Threatens Books
"We've wrestled with high-tech monopolies in the past — IBM, AT&T, Microsoft. The lesson was that such strongholds restrict innovation and competition…The promise of a rich and democratic digital future will be hindered by monopolies." Visit Brewster Kahle in WaPo: How Google Threatens Books Hype:
NYT on the Nabka Archive, Toldot Yisrael
Different archives, different stories. Modeled on the Shoah Foundation's work, the Nabka Archive has 500 video testimonies with Palestinian refugees from over 130 villages. http://www.nakba-archive.org/. Toldot Yisrael http://www.toldotyisrael.org/Site/Home.html has another version of history, also modeled on the Shoah Foundation's work. Visit NYT on the Nabka Archive, Toldot Yisrael Hype:
ALA has questions for Google | Shimenawa
As indeed it should. Easier to deal with the ALA's questions than the DoJ's though. Visit ALA has questions for Google | Shimenawa Hype:
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