The metavid project thesis papers are now available online. Dale’s paper gives a detailed account of the metavid project its motivations and methodology.

The paper publishes details of C-SPAN’s take down request. The requests details are published to illustrate how C-SPAN blurs the line between government produced public domain material and C-SPAN produced content. C-SPAN restrictions on content are shown to limit citizen’s ability to techno-mediate these public media assets.
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The metavid contribution to the danm.01(.alpha.unstable-branch.. hehe) show that opens this week will be highlighting user-built sequences. Users are highly encouraged to throw together collections of clips to help us have something to show :).
A sequence is essentially a collection of clips. if you are logged in to bleeding edge bleeding edge interface and you have a video clip open, you should see a ‘ADD TO SEQUENCE’ button, this will let you create (and link externally to) your sequence.

We imagine that this will be useful for building thematic montages, or people using the same word, or perhaps showing a speaker contradicting himself.
Keep an eye on Building A Sequence in the wiki for documentation (and discussion) of how this works.

Update: Sequences are going through some renovation right now, but feel free to keep track of your favorite clips in the wiki.

Update2:  Sequences can be built with drag and drop goodness.. Watch for a more detailed post and update of metavid happening in a few days

The metavid contribution to the danm.01(.alpha.unstable-branch.. hehe) show that opens this week will be highlighting user-built sequences. Users are highly encouraged to throw together collections of clips to help us have something to show :).
A sequence is essentially a collection of clips. if you are logged in to bleeding edge bleeding edge interface and you have a video clip open, you should see a ‘ADD TO SEQUENCE’ button, this will let you create (and link externally to) your sequence.

We imagine that this will be useful for building thematic montages, or people using the same word, or perhaps showing a speaker contradicting himself.
Keep an eye on Building A Sequence in the wiki for documentation (and discussion) of how this works.

Update: Sequences are going through some renovation right now, but feel free to keep track of your favorite clips in the wiki.

Update2:  Sequences can be built with drag and drop goodness.. Watch for a more detailed post and update of metavid happening in a few days

Metavid will have an installation piece at the DANM.01 mfa exhibition
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here is snipit from my thesis about the metavid code licence. The full paper will be available in a open contestble format shortly I belive aphids version will be as well

Licensing the metavid code base was an important element of the praxis of open source. Several licenses were considered to secure the freedom of participants to re-negotiate the mediations enabled by the metavid software. This survey and license selection process addressed the problems of contemporary archival systems, through the practice of open source licensing.

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One of metaivds participants (dale) has been accepted into summer of code. I will be working on the video components of mediaWiki. Initially work will be focused on integrating ogg theora video plugin support into the mediaWiki framework. After which I will be working on integrating dynamic segmentation reference and templating streams so that close captions can be written in a variety of languages and annotated with relevant references. I will have a write up that explains these features in greater detail shortly For now check out my early post having to do with mediaWiki integration.