- How An Eyewitness Mode Helps Activists (and Others) Be Trusted Individuals and social networks can both benefit from functionality that would allow video uploaders to add metadata, enhancing the trustworthiness of their media.
- What You (and Others) Can Know About a Video Without Even Watching It Why human rights activists need to be aware of how metadata can be used- both for their benefit and against them.
- How To Make a Trustworthy Video Video activists risk everything to film human rights violations. But unverified footage can't stand in newsrooms or courtrooms, so their efforts may be in vain. How can activists prevent that? Archivist Yvonne Ng explains a few simple steps they can take.
- Inside the Media Archive: our Cataloging Manual now available online Inside the Media Archive is an ongoing, occasional behind-the-scenes look at the practices, methodologies, tools, and resources the WITNESS Media Archive has developed and implemented to manage our collection of human rights video documentation.
- Inside the Media Archive: Archiving Digital Video Inside the Media Archive is an ongoing, occasional behind-the-scenes look at the practices, methodologies, tools, and resources the WITNESS Media Archive has developed and implemented to manage our collection of human rights video documentation.
- Inside the Media Archive: Indexing Human Rights Inside the Media Archive is an ongoing, occasional behind-the-scenes look at the practices, methodologies, tools, and resources we have developed and implemented to manage our collection of human rights video documentation.
- WITNESS’ Grace Lile wins 2010 Archival Achievement Award Today is UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage and so, particularly relevant to share the following great news: our Director of Operations, Grace Lile, has been awarded the 2010 Archival Achievement Award by the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York.
- Using Archival Description to Foster Accountability I first became interested in records documenting the Khmer Rouge period in Cambodia a decade ago, when I was working as the arts and culture web producer for the Asia Society Museum in New York. For the museum’s website, I interviewed the director of a troupe of classical Cambodians dancers who were touring the U.S.
- Inside the Media Archive: Metadata In the WITNESS Media Archive, we rely on a lot of open-source and openly documented (i.e. with published specs) resources to manage our collection of human rights videos created by our partners all over the world.
- Open Video Conference: human rights in an open video culture. Lots of great stuff on tap at this week's Open Video Conference (June 19-20, NYU). My WITNESS colleagues Sam Gregory and Sameer Padania will speak on the panel "Human Rights, Indigenous Media and Ethics in Video: Dilemmas, Challenges and Opportunities:"
- Why isn't everything digitized yet? A few weeks ago Indicommons featured an excellent blog post by Deborah Wythe, Head of Digital Collections and Services at the Brooklyn Museum. She poses the question many of us frequently hear: Why isn't everything digitized yet? She then proceeds with a nicely articulated description of some of the challenges, then quantifies them:
- Notes from AMIA 2008: Part 1 Back from the 2008 Association of Moving Image Archives conference (AMIA) in Savannah, a beautiful city. No archive visits, but then Savannah is an archive in itself, and extremely rich in metadata, eg: It was a good conference. A couple of themes were dominant. Key for me was the focus on archiving in the context […]
- Archiving cellphone video Earlier this week amateur cellphone video surfaced corroborating that casualties suffered in the August 22 US airstrike on the Afghan village of Azizabad were much higher than the military has been willing to admit. The Times published a piece by Carlotta Gall "Evidence Points to Civilian Toll in Afghan Raid," which also includes a link to some of the video (edited due to graphic content).
