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. Such an epic project is long overdue.
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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.
Research
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
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 writing
A Moving Image Archive Bill of Rights
by Jennifer Mohan, Intelligent Television (supported by the Digital Library Federation)
What we're reading
links for 2009-01-06
Mininova’s Torrent Downloads Double to 7 Billion in a Year | TorrentFreak "Today, just a few days into 2009, Mininova is close to recording the 7 billionth download, a double up compared to a year ago." Mininova is just one of a number of comparably-sized tracker sites; it's hard to imagine the MPAA and RIAA not [...]
links for 2009-01-05
LRB · John Lanchester: Is it Art? Good meditation on computer games and art, from a literary/print person's POV. (tags: video culture art media society games gaming) Editorial - Exit, Stonewalling - NYTimes.com (tags: law NARA email) Perspectives - The Cost of Bulk Cold Storage "Cold storage with 4x copies at high-scale can now be delivered at: 0.80/GB/year." (tags: storage economics [...]
links for 2009-01-04
Dan Cohen » Virtual Museum of the Gulag Seized Governments burn libraries, but Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe. Collections like this need to be replicated widely, it's sad that this one was not. (tags: history censorship archives risks) Hype:
links for 2009-01-03
Peering into 2009: 10 Predictions for Online Video (tags: predictions 2009 youtube onlinevideo) History of War and Peace Collection | MetaFilter (tags: collections war) Hype:
links for 2009-01-01
Bush Data Threatens to Overload Archives - NYTimes.com Funny what's missing though! (tags: NARA Bush) Innovators Develop Products That Mimic Nature's Principles - washingtonpost.com Prosecuting Online File Sharing Turns a Generation Criminal - US News and World Report "But though I believe kids should not use the Internet to violate others' rights, I oppose these failed copyright wars: We have [...]
links for 2008-12-30
25C3: The Infinite Library Chaos Computer Club's conference includes discussion of (very) private "libraries;" Borges meets pr0n. (tags: hacks PersonalArchiving personal) Hype:
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