[alt-media-res] Fw: [transmission-discuss] metadata standards proposal - call for consultation
zoe
zoe at esemplastic.net
Wed Oct 18 00:10:18 BST 2006
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From: Minna Tarkka
To: zoe ; discuss at transmission.cc
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 8:39 PM
Subject: Re: [transmission-discuss] metadata standards proposal - call for consultation
dear transmissioners
first a big thanks to all of you who made the meeting happen and prepared both the social and analytic ground for the great work! with petri we are writing a report for our collaborators in helsinki to be presented in a discussion of collaborative media practices with adam hyde and bifo berardi on 27/10.
we will also circulate the excellent metadata proposal in our group for comments. at m-cult we have been immersed for some time in the ...onerous, stringent... world of semantic web and listened carefully to the (partly academic) discussions of its possible merits visavis soft ontologies (self-organising maps) and folksonomic camps. we think that there are ways to combine the best of these approaches in creating flexible description schemas for audiovisual content, in the real world...
more about these on the metadata list & group which i hope to join.
txxx once more!
minna
On 10/17/06, zoe <zoe at esemplastic.net> wrote:
Greetings, Transmissioners and friends
On Sunday 15th October 2006 at Re:Tx in Limehouse Town Hall, London,
Jamie King proposed a RDF metadata standard for the Transmission network of
online social justice video projects
Consultation on this document is invited before Friday 27th October 2006.
*-* Metadata Standardisation Proposal *-*
The well-formed proposal was welcomed as the first practical step towards
the basic 'glue' we need to work together effectively.
The underlying goal is for participants in the RDF standard to create
*clean* rss/atom feeds
which can then be aggregated and re-distributed as issue, region or other
specific feeds,
thus enabling users of online video easily to access and exchange material
in a targetted manner.
but - it will only work for all of our benefit, if we are all willing to
adopt it and make it our own
Jamie and Jan Gerber (Rome Tx participant and co-author of the report) have
stressed that the standard should be
a.. as easy as possible to understand and implement for video producers and
distributors,
a.. applicable to as many different kinds of content as possible without
being unwieldy, and
a.. workable in the real world.
their initial working draft proposal can be found here:
http://shiftspace.cc/jamie/tx_report_0.1.html
*-* Consultation *-*
We are now inviting thorough consultation on this document across the tx
network.
Please pass this link or file to colleagues, especially technical people and
those who create and manage the upload forms for any online video CMS. Even
the most basic questions, practical suggestions, technical adjustments etc
all welcome.
(We specifically draw your attention to the importance of language and
translation issues
and the possible framing of an 'appropriate use' code for inclusion in the
description field.)
please send responses: to the metadata list metadata at transmission.cc (see
below to subscribe).
We have set an end date for initial consultation: 27th October 2006
*-* Future Development *-*
Once we have broad agreement within the existing Tx network on the proposed
metadata standard,
Participatory Culture and others will be actively encouraged to adopt and
develop tools to work with it.
Thereafter the potential of this work will be as great as our commitment to
using it and extending its use.
*-* Co-Ordination *-*
There is a Metadata Working Group to take this project forward, it currently
includes the authors of the proposal and about 5 others who expressed an
interest in joining at at the re:tx meeting. more members welcome,
the mailing list for this group is at
http://lists.transmission.cc/mailman/listinfo/metadata,
please introduce your interest to the list if you would like to join.
Zoe Young is the co-ordinator of this working group,
my contact is zoe at esemplastic.net, tel: +44 207 723 2875, skype: zoeyou
This means that I chase people to make sure promised tasks get done,
and carry out liaison with other working groups, which include 'do no harm',
'subtitling', 'preparation for aggregation'
What being co-ordinator does *not* mean is that
1. I am in charge of the process and deciding what gets done when
nor does it mean that
2. I know exactly what needs to be done!
so we need help from other members of the rdf working group - and the wider
network -
to review our efforts to date and plan the future work process.
Many thanks for your attention, we look forward to hearing your views on
this exciting proposal within the next ten days.
Zoe Young
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