I've lost count of how many times I've lost count of my photos. I have so many freakin' photos it's impossible to imagine anymore how many I have. Time to do something about that!
The answer came to me in a flash one night as I should have been sleeping (or organizing my photos): I'll put them on my website! But which one? I sort of started a gallery here on openwebworks, but this isn't really the appropriate place for a personal photo collection. I could just put them on Flickr or Picassa, which I probably will do at some point. But I want to retain control over the server space where they will reside, and I want to play with the CSS and different ways of presenting them with cool JavaScripty things, like different slide shows and lightboxes. I want to catalog them and have fun with them in various ways.
The answer: webotography.com.
Categories: Media • Personal • Photography • Websites
This site was developed to support the WILL-TV documentary Lincoln: Prelude to the Presidency, airing on 110 or so PBS stations this month. The design is pretty simple and spare, but I added a bit of JavaScript mojo in the form of the lightbox variation called multibox, by Samuel Birch. Check it out by playing some of the videos on the home page, or clicking the image thumbnails in the photo gallery.
Too busy making projects lately to keep updating the blog. Let me quickly mention pbcoreresources.org, a site to support ground-up development of the PBCore metadata standard.
PBCore is for exchanging information about audio/video objects, and in the online realm, the a/v objects themselves. A PBCore record is an XML document based on the PBCore schema, describing the intellectual, administrative, and technical details of a media object. Like an RSS/podcast feed, only in much (much...) greater detail.
If you want everything official and technical about PBCore, pbcore.org is a great starting point, including links to all the authoritative PBCore sites and cool projects, including pbcoreresources.org.
Categories: Media • Metadata • Technology • Websites
A conspiracy among public media web developers, percolating for the past four years, has emerged in PubForge.org.
PubForge aims to link public broadcasting with the open source community to develop software and best practices for public media on the web. We set up PubForge.org as a focal point for collaboration, documentation, and shareable code, and we hope to bring together a growing number of folks interested in enabling open media in the public interest. We kinda think the web should be a great place to pursue the mission of public broadcasting: education, enlightenment, democracy, etc.
Trouble is, most public radio and TV stations have very limited web staff and skills. Like William Gibson said, the future is here, it's just unevenly distributed. We aim to distribute the future of public media more evenly. Wanna help? Go to the PubForge site and get involved.
Categories: Media • Technology • Websites
This is a nice little website I put together to support a video documentary entitled Memorial Stadium: True Illini Spirit. The doc was produced by John Paul and Denise La Grassa, and premiered on WILL-TV on September 9th, 2008. It's truly a great story about the beginnings of college and pro football, and the events and people who got the ball, er...rolling. Turns out the construction of Memorial Stadium was a foundational event in the history of American football.
So check it out, eh?
In November 2007 I met by chance one of the most intelligent and calmly energetic persons in the world of media. Peter Kaufman founded Intelligent Television, a catalyst and organizer for innovative media projects, documentaries, research, and events. Intelligent Television taps into so many areas vital to educational and humanly-useful media, it’s impossible to throw a dart and call it one thing. Two Oscars in 2008, for example. We’ll see some great things from INT in the coming years.
Meanwhile, here’s a site I built for Intelligent Television. It will be radically terraformed in the next couple of months as we embark on a new designadigm…
Just won the 2008 Illinois Webmasters Cool Site Award for Content. The site contains 16 years of video archives from WILL’s TV program Prairie Fire, a series of stories about Illinois people, places, and history. Lotta work: We digitized, cataloged, categorized, encoded, and published online some 500 pieces of video from 3/4” tape, Beta, and DVCPro. I started building this site in December 2006 using ExpressionEngine, the first time I used this particular CMS.
Here’s the site: Prairie Fire on WILL-TV
Almost forgot: Each episode and segment video archive has an associated extensive metadata record expressed as structured data, in this case in PBCore format. Ingest in good health.
I only work there 60 hours a week.
WILL is the public broadcasting station at the University of Illinois. We have a proud tradition of public service and innovation in broadcasting. Now we are struggling to go beyond ‘broadcasting’, like everyone else in ‘broadcasting.’
Didn’t make the end-of-May 2008 deadline I set for the new site, but it went live on June 2nd. Not really bad eh? Here it is.
This site should win an award but not for my efforts. Kimberlie Kranich, WILL’s Outreach Coordinator, has outreached herself and everyone else in creating this project. I am but a dumb webmaster.
Destination China was a multimedia group blog I built for the International Reporting class lead by Professor Nancy Benson at the University of Illinois Department of Journalism. 10 students travelled to China to report on various subjects, including the growing economy of China, and its environmental issues.
Some of the students contributed really good reporting, all of it posted from the road in Shanghai, Beijiing, and points in between. Most of the multimedia content remains on the site, but alas, some videos posted to Google Video have gone dark along with Google Video. A good argument for hosting your own media files, if you ask me...
Categories: Journalism • Media • Websites
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