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Metadata working group [online video]

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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.

RDF

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Meet with JJ the other day and he spoke about RDF being the next thing to watch on the web. From W3C:

Today’s web is built predominantly for human consumption. Even as machine-readable data begins to appear on the web, it is typically distributed in a separate file, with a separate format, and no correspondence between the human and machine versions. As a result, web browsers can provide only minimal assistance to humans in parsing and processing web data: browsers only see presentation information. We introduce RDFa, which provides a set of HTML attributes to augment visual data with machine-readable hints. We show how to express simple and more complex datasets using RDFa, and in particular how to turn the existing human-visible text and links into machine-readable data without repeating content.

links for 2008-09-22

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Ogg Theora (browser support)

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from nettime breakthrough for open video on the web

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/31/1752206&from=rss

Ogg Theora support for the HTML5 tag is in the Firefox 3.1 nightlies.

http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=492

I suspect that the effects of this will take a long while to be felt but it’s a great first step in bringing open video to the web by delivering it to a couple hundred million people around the world.

http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/ A simple converter to create Ogg Theora files.

qik

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A couple of XML presenters mentioned qik a mobile video content sharing platform. about:

Qik enables you to share moments of your life with your friends, family and the world - directly from your cell phone!…Just point your cell phone and stream video live to your your friends on Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, etc.

open api - YouTube

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YouTube opens APIs, gets tough on terms of service Greg Sandoval and Adrian Bridgwater, CNET News.com 14 March 2008 09:54 AM

In his official blog, YouTube’s Jim Patterson wrote on Tuesday: “We now provide a complete set of [create, read, update and delete] capabilities for uploading, managing, searching and playing back user videos and metadata from the YouTube ‘cloud’, managed by us. We do the transcoding, hosting, streaming and thumbnailing and we provide open access to our global audience.”

The release of the APIs comes at a time when YouTube is trying to elevate the perception of its site from a video portal to what it describes as “a video-services platform”, available to any third-party website or other application.

open api wikipedia

Open API (often referred to as OpenAPI) is a word used to describe sets of technologies that enable websites to interact with each other by using SOAP, Javascript and other web technologies. While its possibilities aren’t limited to web-based applications, it’s becoming an increasing trend in so-called Web 2.0 applications.

scraping wikipedia

Sphinx-4 (open source)

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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).

Google Summer of Code

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Google Summer of Code

Over the past three years, the program has brought together over 1500 students and 2000 mentors from 90 countries worldwide, all for the love of code. This year, we’re welcoming 1125 student contributors and 175 Free and Open Source projects into the program.

http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/

dialable

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dialable | everything you need is already in your pocket.

Dialable is a suite of technologies which allows the public to control big-screen content with simple cellphone interaction. Growing out of thesis work at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, it is a project by Daniel Liss.

A reblog method

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1.Set up a blog for reblogging using the http://media.rmit.edu.au/ address i.e. mog
2. Free download NetNewsWire a desktop RSS and ATOM reader.
3. To make it an easier process purchase a copy of ecto a desktop blogging client.
4. In the preferences of NetNewsWire choose to publish to ecto directly.
5. Add the RSS feeds from each of the students blogs in a designated folder in NetNewsWire.
6. Set up a direct publication to the reblog/blog that you are going to use in ecto.
7. Sort through the incoming feeds and choose what you want to reblog - add a category and tag in ecto.

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