Content Selection Strategy Report « Video Active

Content Selection Strategy Report « Video Active

At the EDL Project Conference, Sonja de Leeuw outlined an interesting report from the Videoactive project about how they are going to prioritise content - the main priorities are
* Education
* European Integration
* Wars and Conflict
* Religion
* Food and Drink

They are selecting about 20 programmes for each of these topics - and are hoping to pick up some controversial programming within these - and had discussed the 1960s Sexual Revolution as a topic. The document also has the schema they are proposing to use.

The portal is due to launch in February.

Earlier Claudia Dillman spoke about the German Film Portal, and highlighted that one key film that they wanted to contribute to the EDL maquette was on YouTube, but they did not have copyright clearance, as the rightsowner is too frail to give permission.

Google to Host Terabytes of Open-Source Science Data | Wired Science from Wired.com

Google to Host Terabytes of Open-Source Science Data | Wired Science from Wired.com

Interesting to see that Google plans to host loads of research data ... Wonder if they'd like cultural sector data / metadatasets too? Be very interesting to see this when it launches.

Flickr and Library of Congress

London strike. Truck under police protection (LOC) on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Very interesting to see the number of comments being made about the LoC photos added to Flickr. Even more interesting to see the 'no known restrictions' copyright attribution added alongside conventional Creative Commons approaches. Very interesting to discuss with colleagues from the EU activity on Orphan Works.