Hey Everyone! Thanks for attending the Webinar and for the questions you submitted during the session. Here are my answers and some more links. Let's continue the conversation! john john@accesshumboldt.net Q. Is there a way to "chapterize" content via meta-data? A. See the conversion/emulation of DVD chapters from Bread and Puppet DVD .iso files https://archive.org/details/BP9101 so you use a ?start=num_of_seconds_offset parameter appended to your URL: https://archive.org/details/BP9101/BP9101.cdr?start=619 The Archive has semantics for referring to the start of a segment, but not for the end, so you can't refer to a "clip" of a longer video. Q. why can't you delete videos yourself from the archive? A. For your own protection! Because it would be too easy to mistakenly delete items or whole collections. Q. Are there laws that govern Public Access Stations to use videos from other stations. A. I'm not aware of any. Of course, IANAL (I am not a lawyer)... Q. My executive director is always worried about copyright rules, when using video from the archive, how can I be sure it's public domain? A. You can't! Even when searching for Creative Commons licensed video, you may have an overly enthusiastic "presenter" marking it as CC license or Public Domain when in reality it's not. Just as you rely on representations from your submitters that their work is their own and doesn't infringe on copyrights, you re doing the same when using a video marked with a CC license. We've gotten more conservative at Access Humboldt and now rarely bother to use video from the web that's not marked as CC licensed. We search for video that is CC licensed. We capture the CC license at time of download (save the web page that accompanied the video showing the CC license) and use that as a defense (relying on the representation on the web page). When uploading to the Internet Archive, you need a "take down" procedure of your own, so that if you uploaded a producer video that winds up with a copyright infringement claim, you have a process for "making dark" that video. We also have modified our submission form, so that there's a box for "ok for web distribution" as well as "ok for physical media duplication". If the producer doesn't give us "ok for web distribution", it doesn't go up to our collection. See this link for things to think about when archiving: 10 Things to Consider Before You Begin Archiving http://accesshumboldt.net/Community_Media_Archive/ACM_2014_Regional_Presentation/7_things_before_you_begin.txt You can learn more about CC licensing here: http://creativecommons.org Search for CC licensed, MPEG2 video on the Internet Archive with this search query: advanced search results format:mpeg2, most recent 500 items, descending date added order, cclicence, mediatype:movies Search Results in a HTML table http://archive.org/advancedsearch.php?q=mediatype%3Amovies+and+licenseurl%3A%5Bhttp%3A%2F%2Fcreativecommons.org%2Fa+TO+http%3A%2F%2Fcreativecommons.org%2Fz%5D+AND+format%3AMPEG2&fl%5B%5D=collection&fl%5B%5D=description&fl%5B%5D=downloads&fl%5B%5D=identifier&fl%5B%5D=licenseurl&fl%5B%5D=oai_updatedate&fl%5B%5D=subject&fl%5B%5D=title&sort%5B%5D=addeddate+desc&sort%5B%5D=&sort%5B%5D=&rows=500&page=1&callback=callback&save=yes&output=tables Search Results in a CSV file https://archive.org/advancedsearch.php?q=format%3Ampeg2+AND+mediatype%3Amovies&fl[]=collection&fl[]=description&fl[]=downloads&fl[]=identifier&fl[]=licenseurl&fl[]=publicdate&fl[]=subject&fl[]=title&sort[]=addeddate+desc&sort[]=&sort[]=&rows=50000&page=1&callback=callback&save=yes&output=csv The Internet Archive will comply with DMCA "take down" notices and "make dark" videos that are alleged to infringe copyright. Q. John are you selling this service? The service I was refering to was the picture made up of all the videos with the thumb nails. Very cool. A. The Community Media Archive is a free service, but it's also a "Do It Yourself" archive with Access Centers doing the work. The Youtube photo mosaics were a way of trying to raise interest in my "Youtube Archive" project, where an Access Center would focus on improving the metadata in their Youtube submissions rather than on the details of how to archive. I would automatically scrape the information from the Youtube page into the Internet Archive. I'm considering charging for the "Archive as a Service" capabilities of the Youtube Archive project. The cataloging phase (gathering statistics on Access Centers, schools, libraries and government entities use of Youtube and Vimeo) of the Youtube Archive project will remain free. To date, I've got metadata and thumbnails from about 400,000 videos from 3,200 Youtube and Vimeo channels. Q. How is it possible to bulk upload with different subjects and titles? A. Via the bulk uploader program with metadata in a CSV file. example metadata file: http://accesshumboldt.net/Community_Media_Archive/ACM_2014_Regional_Presentation/ah_short_stuff_mpegs_metadata_modified.xls If you go this route, you're responsible for ensuring that the identifier is unique and the filename doesn't include any characters that the archive doesn't accept. You'll also be taking on a learning curve. see the documentation for more info: http://accesshumboldt.net/Community_Media_Archive/mac_bulk_uploader/ias3upload_readme.txt get the program and examples for Macs from: http://accesshumboldt.net/accesshumboldt.net/Community_Media_Archive/mac_bulk_uploader.zip the PC version of the program relies on a thumb drive of PortableApps programs totaling about 500MB here are the PC version instructions: http://accesshumboldt.net/Community_Media_Archive/Internet%20Archive%20Bulk%20Uploader%20Instructions.docx Q. How do you promote your archive for stream or download to others? Others who are not tech savvy....Links on your website or in emails? A. Our website links to our collection on Internet Archive. The Internet Archive is our online video presence! We run searches to provide a list of episodes to elderly or web-challenged producers. Since we include a custom field called "presenter" for all our uploads other than Government Meetings, we are able to search for the presenter's name on archive.org and get back a list of links to every show of theirs. Presenters appreciate this and they are able to distribute these links to friends, family, associates who may not be cable subscribers. Q. Can you point me in the right direction for learning to program scripts on a pc? A. Sorry, I'm the wrong person to ask. I'm a Linux system administrator and the last time I scripted in a Windows environment (10 years ago), I used CygWin to re-create the Linux/Unix command line environment. A couple of years ago, I was working on a project with the Internet Archive where my scripts needed to run on a Mac and I was amazed to learn that I only need to change 2 lines (dealing with directory paths) to get them to work. I understand that PowerShell is the current Windows scripting environment, but I don't have any experience with it. I'd almost recommend buying a Raspberry Pi (starter kits available for $60-$80) and taking advantage of the fact that over 5 million of them have been sold in the past 3 years and the wealth of educational resources helping people learn how to script them. They run Linux instead of Windows, but they're targeted at school age kids, so the barriers to learning are low. Google is your friend! Q. What is the expectation that Tightrope and/or Telvue will have built-in IA distribution? A. Basically, if *you* don't let them know that this is something *you* want, it will never happen. Q. Could this be setup so my producers can upload to their own collection? A. Yes. However, you'd likely encounter variability in the quality of metadata entered and likely sacrifice consistency in the metadata. This is a under-appreciated benefit of the access center in it's "gatekeeper" role of maintaining a single archive collection. Q. Could Tightrope be set to autodownload those files as a subscription? A. No. Q. Is there a way to upload to archive directly from our Tightrope server. A. No. Q. It was informative but I was hoping for more news about built-in distribution through Tightrope's (and other servers) products. Nobody seems to be moving towards this goal very speedily, A. As I mentioned during the session, you need to let your vendors know that you want these feautres. Until and unless you and enough others do, they aren't likely to devote their limited development resources to this task. Q. Could I program a channel using the CMA programs with feeds to an automated playback system? A. Sure, but it would be a "more than two cases of beer" Do It Yourself project! Sounds like fun though... Q. Hi John, could you talk about how an access center could backup their entire collection including metadata? A. Like I mentioned in the session, I'd probably go with an Advanced Search that gave me a list of identifiers, and then download the torrent files like my script #1 example. With Advanced Search you can limit your search to a specific date range, which is how I identify every video file uploaded to the Internet Archive each night and then download it's metadata. You would of course also limit your search to your collection. See the example date range queries in the Advanced Search page: https://archive.org/advancedsearch.php Q. You had examples of series available via Archive - like Pop Tech and Media Edge .. can you say more about those? A. The series highlighted on my slide are all interesting non-commercial video that license their video under some form of Creative Commons license. I'm attempting to "seed" the Archive with series that may be of interest to access centers, because some centers may not be ready to archive their own video, but they can get exposure to using and working with the Archive as part of a distribution system. I hope these series function as a "gateway drug" to hook programmers into using the Archive, and that someday they may decide to start archiving their own shows to it. Comments C. some of the everyday tech slang was over my head. Not everyone is familiar with torrenting and metadata uses. A. You don't need to use any of the technical mumbo-jumbo. You can search for videos and manually download the MPEG2 versions by right clicking on the MPEG2 link in the "Download Options" section of each figure out how to go beyond the one-by-one method of downloading videos. One of the goals of developing the distribution aspect of the Community Media Archive is to develop automated methods that make for automatic or "frictionless" downloads that aren't tied to any vendor's particular technology. Thus the use of technical buzz words that form the building blocks of a vendor neutral solution. Ok, I'll go ahead and post these answers. Just a reminder, if you'd like copies of the slide deck or other resources developed for this webinar, you can find them on the Community Media Archive wiki: http://accesshumboldt.net/wiki/index.php?title=Community_media_archive#Tightrope_Media_Systems_PEG_Experts_webinar_-_Hosting_.26_Sharing_your_Media_on_Internet_Archive