Lots of great stuff on tap at this week’s Open Video Conference (June 19-20, NYU). My WITNESS colleagues Sam Gregory and Sameer Padania will speak on the panel “Human Rights, Indigenous Media and Ethics in Video: Dilemmas, Challenges and Opportunities:”
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June 17, 2009
Open Video Conference: human rights in an open video culture.
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Tags: ethics, human rights, metadata, open video conference, video
May 15, 2009
Why isn’t everything digitized yet?
A few weeks ago Indicommons featured an excellent blog post by Deborah Wythe, Head of Digital Collections and Services at the Brooklyn Museum. She poses the question many of us frequently hear: Why isn’t everything digitized yet? She then proceeds with a nicely articulated description of some of the challenges, then quantifies them:
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Tags: archives, archivists, digital preservation, digitization, metadata, WITNESS Media Archive
November 18, 2008
Notes from AMIA 2008: Part 1
Back from the 2008 Association of Moving Image Archives conference (AMIA) in Savannah, a beautiful city. No archive visits, but then Savannah is an archive in itself, and extremely rich in metadata, eg:
It was a good conference. A couple of themes were dominant. Key for me was the focus on archiving in the context [...]
September 12, 2008
Archiving cellphone video
Earlier this week amateur cellphone video surfaced corroborating that casualties suffered in the August 22 US airstrike on the Afghan village of Azizabad were much higher than the military has been willing to admit. The Times published a piece by Carlotta Gall “Evidence Points to Civilian Toll in Afghan Raid,” which also includes a link to some of the video (edited due to graphic content).
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Tags: advocacy, archives, cell phones, cellphones, evidence, human rights, metadata, mobile phones, September 11 Digital Archive, video, video advocacy, WITNESS Hub
