Intelligent Television

Video for culture & education

Research

iCommons

iCommons and the Open Video Alliance have asked Intelligent Television to prepare a report that describes the legal, policy, business, and technical procedures we expect to be involved in bringing educational video from universities, libraries, museums, and archives into the Wikimedia Commons. Wikipedia’s experience processing institutional uploads of image files—for example the 100,000-photograph collection from the German Federal Archives (http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,3851534,00.html)—have proven useful for education. How scalable are lessons from these experiences to moving image uploads? Instructions for providing educational video for other websites and harvesting efforts abound (see YouTube’s: http://docs.google.com/View?id=dc4j7df7_226g3sfp7cg or Home Movie Day’s: http://www.homemovieday.com/transfer.html). Our report will focus on policy and legal issues as well as on the technical issues involved in providing video for Wikimedia Commons.

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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

"Common as Air": The argument against intellectual property | Slide Show – Salon.com

Nice cartoon based review of Lewis Hyde's new book, "Common as Air." Visit "Common as Air": The argument against intellectual property | Slide Show – Salon.com

No Copyright Law: The Real Reason for Germany’s Industrial Expansion? – SPIEGEL ONLINE – News – International

"Did Germany experience rapid industrial expansion in the 19th century due to an absence of copyright law? A German historian argues that the massive proliferation of books, and thus knowledge, laid the foundation for the country's industrial might." Visit No Copyright Law: The Real Reason for Germany’s Industrial Expansion? – SPIEGEL ONLINE – News – [...]

Mass Amateur Digitization and Mobilizing the Public

If You Build It, They Will Scan: Oxford University’s Exploration of Community Collections (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAUSE Visit Mass Amateur Digitization and Mobilizing the Public

Out now: Digital Content Quarterly issue 3 at Strategic Content Alliance blog

Am late noting this one, but much worth reading here, especially Fluency in Film and Sound: a new cultural imperative. Visit Out now: Digital Content Quarterly issue 3 at Strategic Content Alliance blog