[IMC-Video] MetaVidWiki Open Beta

[Michael Dale]

hello, IMC-Video list :)
(sorry for the cross posting to transmission network list members)

I wanted to pass along an announcement of MetaVidWiki Open Beta:
http://metavid.ucsc.edu/blog/2008/03/13/metavidwiki-open-beta/

There maybe directions to take this free/open source MetaVidWiki 
software in activist spaces; here is one such vision:

"Live" interfaces for real time broadcasts with instant temporal url 
accessible archival are under development for the metavid project. We 
can imagine multiple coordinated actions in a given city with many 
simultaneous live streams could be semantically tagged with 
geo-cordinates giving media coordinators quick spacial temporal overview 
of activity. Clips from any of these live streams could be searched, 
sampled, sequenced and embedded all while still being broadcasted... 
editors could collaborate on building pieces of a packaged "story" with 
the in-browser video editor.  Then the text or audio could be 
collaboratively translated into multiple languages  as people published 
it to blogs or indymedia portals.

Open wireless network devices broadcast video technology is not quite 
there yet... but would be good to start build the software 
infrastructure to support it cuz its coming soon ;) Stuff like wiki 
based transcription and translation, basic sequencing and semantic 
search are what we are working on with the MetaVidWiki software.

If you check out the semantic search you can start to get an idea of 
where things could go....this for example is speeches by people who 
received more than 1 million from funding interest attorney and law
http://tinyurl.com/2w4jz4
In a community documentary project the queries would be very different 
... but hopefully the idea is communicated...

I think rich community media mapping is key to enabling wider end user 
meaning production with audio/visual media.

anyway...lots of ideas to explore.... check it out the latest metavid... 
let me know what you think :)

peace,
michael