Television Archiving

Documentary videos on OA

• September 26th, 2007

Good news for Intelligent Television:

A collection of documentary videos on OA is a giant step closer to a screen near you, thanks to a grant from the Open Society Institute.  See the September 17 announcement from Intelligent Television and BioMed Central:

The Open Society Institute has awarded a grant to support the production and distribution of the Open Access Documentary Project, a collection of online videos celebrating the benefits of open access to scientific and medical research.  Intelligent Television and BioMed Central are co-producers of the Project. 

The Open Access Documentary Project will facilitate the ongoing work of BioMed Central and Intelligent Television in promoting open access to science and medicine in fields as diverse as malaria research and particle physics. 

The producers are now assembling an international editorial board and contacting institutions that hold archival and production resources that will be vital to the project.  Principal production has begun in London, New York, and at CERN in Geneva, featuring video interviews with publishers and consumers of scientific and medical information in the developed and developing world —and with other stakeholders in open access including foundations, government agencies, and the media….

(via Open Access News)

links for 2007-09-20

• September 20th, 2007

• What’s All This Muntzing Stuff, Anyhow?
  Nice story on history of television.
  (tags: television history)
• Creationists vs. Atheists: Takedown Battle on YouTube
  (tags: copyright)

links for 2007-09-18

• September 18th, 2007

• Head of US copyright says “DMCA does what it is supposed to do” - Boing Boing
  (tags: copyright LC)
• Peter Suber, Open Access News
  (tags: copy)

links for 2007-09-13

• September 13th, 2007

• Fair use industries returned $4.5 trillion to the US in 2006 - Boing Boing
  Ghost works is next…
  (tags: copyright)
• CCIA’s estimate of the fair use economy
  Poetic truths, like the RIAA’s numbers, countered with other poetic truths that seem, somehow, more believable.
  (tags: copyright economics open content)

links for 2007-09-10

• September 10th, 2007

• 3rd International Digital Curation Conference
  11-13 December 2007 in DC
• IS&T’s Archiving Conference
  June 24-27, 2008, Bern, Switzerland
• CFP Open for TOC 2008, Feb. 11-13 in New York
  ORA conference, Tools of Change
• Draft NARA Digitizing Plan Available for Public Comment
  Excellent move by NARA to collect input re: mass digitization agreements.
  (tags: archiving digitization)

links for 2007-09-09

• September 9th, 2007

• Peter Brantley on The Living New Deal Project
  Gray Brechin’s Living New Deal Project set in context
  (tags: arc)

links for 2007-09-07

• September 7th, 2007

• Corrupt countries were more likely to support the OOXML document format | EFFI.org
• Archive Sues to Recover 5 Million Emails
• Fair use is not a consumer right
  (tags: Copyright)

links for 2007-09-06

• September 6th, 2007

• SeaChange Debuts Video Storage System - TVover.net
  (tags: DAM)
• Framing the Elusive Concept of Sustainability: A Sustainability Hierarchy
  How about if it’s not accessible, it’s not sustainable?
  (tags: Sustainability)
• Official Google Blog: Collect, share, and discover books
  Remixing books.
  (tags: Google books)

links for 2007-09-05

• September 5th, 2007

• Second look: Inside the FCC’s “Report on Violent Programming and Its Impact on Children” - Lasar’s Letter on the FCC (LLFCC)
  (tags: television violence)
• ACLU Comments to the Federal Communications Commission re: MB Docket No. 04-261, the Matter of Violent Television Programming and Its Impact on Children
  (tags: television violence)
• ANA - ANA Files Statement With Senate Commerce Committee on Media Violence
  they sell healthy food, too
  (tags: television violence)
• “Children’s Media Policy Coalition” on the V-Chip
  Children Now, the American Psychological Association, Action Coalition for
  Media Education, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the
  Benton Foundation, the National Institute on Media and the Family, the National PTA
  and the Offi
  (tags: television violence v-chip)
• The UCLA Television Violence Report 1996: Historical Background Center forCommunication Policy
  (tags: television violence)
• John Murray — “The Impact of Televised Violence” (Hofstra LawReview)
  (tags: television violence)
• UNESCO: The Killing Screen
  1999 report on the effect of television violence on children
  (tags: television violence)

links for 2007-09-04

• September 4th, 2007

• wonderful, wonderful, wonderful Wonderbra! | MetaFilter
  Ads from the 1960s & 1970s.
  (tags: ads video television consumer history)
• Joho the Blog: Freedom of Less Information Act
  (tags: foia)
• How to break DRM - easy step-by-step explanations - iTunes, DVDs, etc.
  Helping archivists cope with DRM.
  (tags: DRM archiving)
• Vint Cerf, aka the godfather of the net, predicts the end of TV as we know it
  The Guardian on Vint Cerf’s predictions about TV’s “ipod moment.”
  (tags: online video)

links for 2007-09-02

• September 2nd, 2007

• idents.tv
  Station identifications