[alt-media-res] Fw: potential extra research module for alt-media-res project

[zoe]

hello there you all
list very quiet these days, am I the only one posting?
heard from steffen that this request (see below) could be smiled upon and to
await more response - but nothing yet, so sending again because if it is to
happen we needto crank into gear pretty soon... what do you think? no
worries if not, just be nice to know to be able to plan...
news is am transcribing away here, and soon gonna do another application
with sian to the user fellowship thing
also ifiwatchnet has decided to shift content management system to drupal
(open source) which slightly sends everything up in the air again for
ifiwatch.tv.
pennie is home too which is good
what's the other news?
xxx


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "zoe" <zoe at esemplastic.net>
To: <alt-MEDIA-RES at lists.aktivix.org>
Cc: <simon at metamute.org>; "Anna" <anna at sagaponic.net>;
<Andre.Spicer at wbs.ac.uk>; "frenesi" <frenesi at kein.org>;
<london at transmission.cc>
Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 5:44 PM
Subject: potential extra research module for alt-media-res proect


> greetings all - here's a tentative exploratory potentially eventual
request:
>
> as you know i've reported briefly on some of the exciting ideas coming out
> of our 'transmission' meeting a few weeks back in rome - particularly the
> idea of developing keyword based feeds of video material. I've also
> mentioned the planned 'retransmission' meeting in london mid october,
> initially envisaged as another clearer channel uk online video get
together
> but now aiming higher, with not just a 'hacklab' type set up but also a
> panel with BFI involvement, etc...
>
> well, there is now a 'london transmission' e-list (let me know if any of
you
> would like to be included on this, this mail is cc:ed to it) and yesterday
> some of us got together to swap video and think about what we really
wanted
> to achieve in October. and the obvious thing was to have the opportunity
to
> really move ahead with developing key technical tools to facilitate online
> video exchange in our emerging network. which would require some applied
> research and development of our agreements in rome in preparation.
>
> now I am not techie enough to fully understand what all the work involves,
> but we tentatively agreed that there is one more or less dicrete key
> research/decelopment task which needs doing soon, and which would benefit
> from the right person being paid a bit to do it. and I have no idea how
much
> it would cost, or if this is the sort of thing the alt-media-res project
can
> think about supporting, but if it is, and we get the right person, my
> understanding is that it would be an incredibly valuable investment for
> independent online video networks, and also generate 'action research'
> findings like no other.
>
> in short, the situation as I understand it is that people in berlin have
> developed v2v tools to exchange video online using bittorrent, another
crew
> have a project called soma (which I understand less but which I think
> relates to keywords etc in online video metadata), and people in london
are
> working on what they call the 'semantic web' - working out ways to
navigate
> online materials using meaningful words and phrases.. there are also
radical
> librarian networks out there, people in oneworld tv and similar projects
who
> have been working in this field for some time, within their particular
> fields and networks.
>
> so, as far as I can understand anyway! the project would be to survey the
> work of each of these communities and create an overview of their
> achievements and potential sufficiently to then ask techies to take the
best
> of these existing projects' tools and experience and generate easily
> accessed tools to enable user-friendly searches and feeds of issue/region
> based online video.
>
> ok I'll stop there. i'm in way over my head already ;-)
>
> anna or simon, can you help me clarify our ambitions here, and also
suggest
> anything about what kind of outlay, timescale, person etc such research
> might involve?
>
> thanks!!!!!
>
> love
>
> z
>
>
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