Intelligent Television
Video for culture & education
The South
Intelligent Television, Alexandria Productions, Insignia Films, and PBS are producing an epic television, education, and library project on the American South in the 20th century. This project draws upon the work of historians and scholars who link the power of traditional storytelling with new advances in media, information technology, humanities computing, library science, and the digitization of primary documents.
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Open Video Studio
Intelligent Television has established a new Open Video Studio to cost-effectively produce more video resources for the open education and open content movement. The objectives of the Studio—based in New York but networking educational production facilities across the United States and abroad—are threefold:
* to evaluate the use of video in teaching and learning;
* to catalyze video production for education; and
* to build new tools—editing, annotation, search—for more cost-efficient video production and distribution.
Strategic consulting
Audio-Visual Conservation at The Library of Congress
Located at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Culpeper, Virginia, the Library's newly completed Packard Campus of the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center provides underground storage for this entire collection on 90 miles of shelving, together with extensive modern facilities for the acquisition, cataloging and preservation of all audio-visual formats. The Library has contracted Intelligent Television to provide strategic planning guidance organizing events for the 2010 public opening of this facility.
From Open Culture
Penguin Turns 75 & Two Bestsellers to Give Away
Today marks the 75th anniversary of Penguin Books. And to celebrate this milestone, they’re driving a Mini Cooper adorned with the Penguin logo across the US this summer, donating books to local libraries and literacy groups. Then, in September, the festivities will culminate with a fundraising party at the New York Public Library. The folks at [...]
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Elvis Costello Sings “Penny Lane” for Sir Paul
Last month, President Obama awarded Paul McCartney the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. And then the concert (aired last night on PBS) began. Among the highlights was Elvis Costello singing “Penny Lane” with a member of the President’s United States Marine band playing the piccolo trumpet. It’s a downright wonderful version. You [...]
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Research
iCommons
OER and Children’s Media
Media content, policy, infrastructure
Video Use in Higher Education
Sponsorship Models for Educational and Cultural Assets Online
Business Planning for a New Audiovisual Archive
Building a New Form of Production Studio
The Economics of Film and Video Distribution in the Digital Age
The “Good Terms” Project
The Open Education Video Project
The Economics of Open Content
“Open Production Initiatives” and Moving-Image Repositories
What we do
Intelligent Television produces innovative films, television, and online video; conducts research in the future of media; and provides strategic planning and consulting services, all in close association with leading cultural & educational institutions and renowned directors and cinematographers — and all to make educational and cultural material more widely accessible worldwide.
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
Ubiquitous Media and the Revival of Participatory Culture
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
Mobile Video Capture Soars; Now Brace Yourself for Views and Uploads
Pew reports 34 % of U.S. cell phone customers use their phones to record video. GigaOm reports on this, and notes that YouTube mobile videos increased 160 percent in 2009. Visit Mobile Video Capture Soars; Now Brace Yourself for Views and Uploads
http://wendy.seltzer.org/anticircumvention.pdf
Wonderful piece by Wendy Seltzer about DRM, anti-circumvention, and innovation. "DRM frustrates lawful use and the creation of new technology products with- out saving the entertainment companies from the uncompensated reproduction they feared. In the meantime, it forecloses the open innovation that could lead them and society toward new options that could be better for [...]
AIMS project / born digital archives
"The AIMS project, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, represents a co-operative strategy among four partner institutions, to energize collection development in the area of born-digital papers, and to empower librarians and archivists in the management of born-digital assets. The four partners in the project led by the University of Virginia are Stanford University, [...]
Digital Lives
Digital Lives has produced some of the best work on personal archiving, and is holding a seminar about it on Monday, 5 July. Visit Digital Lives
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