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