Abstract:
This session will cover the vision of the Community Media Archive,
empower participants to get started contributing video to the Archive
and cover some intermediate considerations once they have established collections.
In addition to archiving, the sessions will cover topics such as
using the Internet Archive as a source of non-local programming for your station.
Noteworthy updates to the CMA ecosystem (such as availability on the Roku box)
since the last ACM national conference will also be covered.
Session Outline:
Vision
a collection of broadcast quality locally produced shows with sufficient descriptive metadata from Community Media Centers that can be freely shared with other stations.
- broadcast quality
- locally produced
- sufficient descriptive metadata to be useful to others than originator
- archive.org as the hub of sharing system
- archive not intended to be a one way destination
disaster recovery
-Scope of the Internet Archive
7 million+ items
-texts, videos, live music,
-Scope of the Community Media Archive
19 centers from around the country
8 regularly contribute
13,000 videos
-Related collections - http://accesshumboldt.net/Community_Media_Archive/ACM_2012_Presentation/all_file_size_extract.pdf
Access Centers using archve.org not part of CMA (like Maui and GRTV)
Tedtalks
Poptech
-CMA available on the Roku:
https://owner.roku.com/add/NMJS5
Getting Started - Conceptual
concepts
collection, item, file
"details" page
navigation vs. search
getting organized more important than technical knowledge
Getting Started - Procedural
-sign up for an archive "library card" / register an email address
-email the collections group for a new collection
collections-service@archive.org
-provide descriptive text blurb about the collection
-archive userids to admin the collection
-jpeg station logo
-request it as a "subcollection" of the community_media collection
-input formats they accept and what output formats they derive
http://archive.org/help/derivatives.php?mediatype=movies
-use manual interactive interface (http://archive.org/create/) to upload first several videos
-bulk uploader program available
https://github.com/kngenie/ias3upload
uses a CSV file for your metadata
Internet Archive Feature Stack Diagram
"iceberg" model
perfect world vs. present reality
layers that may need enrichment
ways to make up for deficiencies
Internet Archive Feature Stack Diagram
mobile User Interface
Web User Interface
Search
RSS feeds
Operations transparency
Metadata transparency
Transcoding video
Storage
Archiving/Digital Library
"Productionalizing" Archiving
move archiving from an afterthought to part of your production workflow
become conscious of your existing workflow
analyze, improve it
experiment
Production Workflows Diagram
0 Shoot->Edit->Transcode->Present->Playback Server->Schedule->VOD->Air--------------->Archive
1 Archive->Air
2 Archive
3 local transcode w archive's
code
Metadata Discussion
-minimal required - identifier, "creator", title, description
-anything accepted (and retrievable through meta.xml file stored on item's detail page)
-subject(s) - what shows up under "Browse by subject/keyword" link for collection
-identifier must be unique across all 7+ million items stored at I/A
-file naming restrictions A-Z0-9._- no spaces, parenthesis, brackets, pound signs allowed in file names
playback server is likely more permissive than archive.org is
suffix matters if you want the animated gifs to show up for your files
-fields added by I/A - uploader, addeddate, publicdate, parent collections, mediatype
-what extra fields can you add?
examples from DOM, AH, tedtalks
-extra fields are searchable but not returned in search results
-"series" and "sequence" or "episode" tags
-"presenter" tag
Once You're Established
Internet Archive peculiarities
Where am i in the queue?
http://archive.org/catalog.php?justme=1
Every item has a history and it's kept forever
http://catalogd.us.archive.org/log_show.php?task_id=
that's good!
runtime and audio/video parameters from ffmpeg output available for every file transcoded
"Edit Item"
"Item Manager"
"Item History"
"Advanced Search"
Metadata XML & JSON files
More Metadata discussion
cleanup
bulk uploader program available
uses a CSV file for metadata
can be used to add/change metadata without uploading files
RSS feeds
Finding programs for Re-Broadcast
-Advanced Search "AND format:MPEG2" search qualifier
-TedTalks & PopTech collections
NASA kids video series
-archive.org RSS feeds not good enough
Downloading programs for Re-Broadcast
grab the MPEG2 version!
grab the metadata XML file or "screen scrape" title, description, runtime
grab the files.xml file; runtime (in seconds) length available from "length" element of _files.xml for an item
want to be notified when a new episode of the series becomes available?
subscribe to the RSS feed for the collection or create one from "advanced search"
Updates:
-stats/scope - CMA is growing!
Internet Archive's financial support in AWS terms/pricing > $36,000 so far
Access Humboldt's support ~ 3 hours/week
I donate another 3 hours/week
opportunities for sponsorship / feature bounties
-bulk uploader program is available via https://github.com/kngenie/ias3upload
-accepts metadata in CSV format, certain required fields
-can be used for bulk metadata adds/updates without uploading files
-new MPEG2 transcoding profile is available
-16:9 H264 MPEG4 input -> 4:3 letterboxed ACM compliant MPEG2 broadcast-ready output
-also available outside of I/A via code on github
https://github.com/traceypooh/deriver-archive
-new selectable HD/SD toggle for HD content in I/A's user interface
-new collections available w ACM compliant MPEG2 letterboxed video
TedTalks
Poptech
-Access Humboldt is offering an upload service
-Telvue's "one button" upload to Internet Archive feature coming as of Princeton sw release 3.23
Gift Cultures
http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/homesteading/homesteading/ar01s06.html
Reputation is built by what you give away
Imagine Public Access as a Gift Culture!
What will you contribute?