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Metadata working group [online video]

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on October 17, 2008

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Caught up with Andy Nicholson from Engage Media today and learnt about their Transmission online video metadata working group.

A metadata standard for online video will ensure a common definitions for basic information such as title, date, author and language and (free) tags. This standard is to be used in video upload forms and video feeds of data coming from each participating site. The standard will allow creation of search and importation tools for (open source) Content Management Systems (CMS) like Drupal, Wordpress, Plone/Plumi etc to easily locate video data in other video databases that use the standard.

Johnan Oomen replied to a post of this on the video vortex list with a reference to TX metadata standard:
EBU Core pdf—– PBCore Public Broadcasting Metadata Dictionary Project. He states they are both “built on the foundation of the Dublin Core (ISO 15836), an international standard for resource discovery (http://dublincore.org), widely used in the cultural heritage domain.

References Copyright, Free Software

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on October 15, 2008

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From the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies and the book review section where authors reply to reviews.

Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture
Author: Tarleton Gillespie
Publisher: Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007

From a recent Leonardo Books review, October 2008.

Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software
by Christopher M. Kelty
Duke University Press, Durham and London, USA/UK, 2008
ISBN 0-8223-0-8223; ISBN: 0-8223-0-8223.

open p2p design

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seth.keen

on October 3, 2008

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Received a link to this online design thesis openp2pdesign.org_1.1. I like the way this thesis has been re-designed for online distribution and translated from Italian into Spanish and English to increase the spread.

openp2pdesign.o rg was born in order to publish, disseminate and develop further my thesis, and to stimulate on it a collective discussion. The intention is to render the ideas behind the thesis not as property of a single person, but to share them collectively within a community. The thesis as the first source code on which to develop a community: this is why it has been translated to English and Spanish too.

There is some material in here on Free Software in relation to design, along with some nice design ideas like the way links are represented around the body text.

Sphinx-4 (open source)

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seth.keen

on August 5, 2008

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This application Sphinx-4 came up in discussions about tagging and annotating video content on the fly.

Sphinx-4 is a state-of-the-art speech recognition system written entirely in the JavaTM programming language. It was created via a joint collaboration between the Sphinx group at Carnegie Mellon University, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL), and Hewlett Packard (HP), with contributions from the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

artists using YouTube

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seth.keen

on May 12, 2008

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http://www.fridayarts.net/blogs/?p=3677

Internet video site YouTube needs no introduction. Its status as
both a branded channel and a medium in its own right has redefined
“new media” on both sides of the art and corporate entertainment
divide. But most of its content resides somewhere in between, and its
currency lies in the vernacular nature of the items posted there–to
the extent that the memes incubated on YouTube are trickling down
into the language of contemporary artists’ work and, in turn, re-
emerging on the site.

http://thekitchen.org

The Cathedral and the Baazar

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seth.keen

on April 16, 2008

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Previous research into open source led to this article ‘The Cathedral and the Baazar by Eric Steven Raymond, Nov 2006. I like many others it seems who are involved in open-source software development have been influenced by some of the ideas that Raymond presents. A quote from the introduction:

Linus Torvalds’s style of development—release early and often, delegate everything you can, be open to the point of promiscuity— came as a surprise. No quiet, reverent cathedral-building here—rather, the Linux community seemed to resemble a great babbling bazaar of differing agendas and approaches (aptly symbolized by the Linux archive sites, who’d take submissions from anyoneanyone) out of which a coherent and stable system could seemingly emerge only by a succession of miracles.

drupal and signaling

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seth.keen

on March 27, 2008

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From Markus Sandy’s blog a post tilted ‘Drupal as a framework for a social context engine’, a video record of Richard Schave’ s presentation at the Los Angeles Drupal Camp 2007. Some quick overview notes of the presentation. He looks at the goal of locating “an engine that tells you what you are looking for without having to look for it.” Two ways to locate information 1. a news reader (filter) 2. signaling The signaling option is about tracking interests, argues that this needs to be incorporated into CMS. He refers to webjay which has been pulled down as an example of a social context engine (also Flickr, del.ici.ous). Explains that signaling goes beyond browsers. Maps (Google maps) can be created out of syndication. He points towards signaling being formed around social groups. “Syndication; Serendipity; Civic Action” - “Maximise the diffusion of ideas throughout society and thereby affect social change.

References:

CiviCRM - CiviCRM is an open source and freely downloadable constituent relationship management solution. CiviCRM is web-based, open source, internationalized, and designed specifically to meet the needs of advocacy, non-profit and non-governmental groups.

organic groups - niche communities

http://2or3things.org/andyhook - social context follow up

tipping point wikipedia summaries reference

freetagging

open book example

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on March 27, 2008

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Lisa Gye posted this open book example ‘The Googlization of Everything’ by Siva Vaidhyanathanto to the fc list. The author Siva Vaidhyanathan uses the open book process (Institute for the Future of the Book) to critique Google. The book is a “book blog” and Vaidhyanathanto lays out some major research questions in the summary:

This blog, the result of a collaboration between myself and the Institute for the Future of the Book, is dedicated to exploring the process of writing a critical interpretation of the actions and intentions behind the cultural behemoth that is Google, Inc. The book will answer three key questions: What does the world look like through the lens of Google?; How is Google’s ubiquity affecting the production and dissemination of knowledge?; and how has the corporation altered the rules and practices that govern other companies, institutions, and states?

Vaidhyanathanto’s other books - Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity (New York University Press, 2001) and The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System (Basic Books, 2004). The about on the Institute for the Future of the Book:

We’re a small think-and-do tank investigating the evolution of intellectual discourse as it shifts from printed pages to networked screens.

EngageMedia updates

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seth.keen

on January 13, 2008

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EngageMedia emailed out some updates to the FOSS video codecs they are working on.

It is a review of available tools for the creation, playback and embedding of online video using FOSS codecs, and a look at the most pressing areas for development to enhance their adoption by social change video projects on the web.

PDF version.
Summary of Recommendations
wiki feedback
Report licensed under the GNU FDL.

They have also revamped their site with a tagging and call outs feature amongst others.