Multimedia Shelf
Two archived lectures/webcasts.
+ Preserving Digital Public Television (via Library of Congress)
This presentation took place on March 8, 2006. “Project director Nan Rubin discussed the “Preserving Digital Public Television” project, which is funded with a dollar-for-dollar matching award from the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program. The “Preserving Digital Public Television” project is exploring the selection and appraisal of programs for preservation, a variety of technical issues and the roles and responsibilities for long-term preservation within the public television community. Among other technical topics, the project is examining appropriate formatting for video preservation. One of the key contributions from New York University, which is also part of the project, is the development of a model digital repository to demonstrate several of the project’s technical findings.
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+ Journalism: “Send us your photos: How the Net makes us all reporters”
This presentation took place at Oxford University in October, 2005. “Nobody who uses the Internet or watches news programmes on TV can be unaware of the phenomenon of ‘citizen journalism’, found everywhere from personal blogs to sites like OhmyNews and Dan Gillmor’s Bayosphere to the BBC, CNN, Sky, and every other news outlet where people are invited to send in photos, videos, or eyewitness reports of any newsworthy event they happen to witness. Journalist and website editor Bill Thompson will discuss the likely impact of this new form of journalism on the mainstream media, attempting to place it in a historic context both technically and in terms of the way journalism has developed. He will look at the ethical issues which new forms of newsgathering and publication raise, both for contributors and for the news organisations which use their material, and consider how those training tomorrow’s journalists should respond.”

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