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Digital Video Scholarship: Discussions about Collecting and Using Field Work Video
(Indiana University Digital Library Program, 2008-10-29) Cowan, Will
The primary examples will be video collected in the Ethnographic Video for Instruction and Analysis Digital Archive project but I won't really focus on technical issues. I plan to discuss issues about these videos involving Intellectual Property, the rights of the groups being filmed, what does "public access" mean and do we really want it for video used for scholarship, revealing "raw" data versus a finished product, the scholarly process of working with and presenting video vs. more traditional methods of scholarship, what does video on the internet mean for traditional pedagogy and is there even such a thing as video scholarship involving field video or other video shot by the scholar and can we arrive at a consensus about the value of such an endeavor. These issues have all been discussed as part of the EVIADA project at one time or another and the project team has attempted to solve some of them. I plan to share some of those solutions as well as pose some questions we don't have answers for yet.
Ethnomusicological Video for Instruction and Analysis (EVIA) Digital Archive
(Indiana University Digital Library Program, 2004-11-19) Cowan, Will; Dunn, Jon
Ethnomusicological Video For Instruction and Analysis Digital Archive (EVIADA)
(Indiana University Digital Library Program, 2005-12-07) Cowan, Will; Hansen, Nick
Ethnomusicology Multimedia - Books and Online Multimedia
(Indiana University Digital Library Program, 2010-10-06) Cowan, Will
In 2010, Indiana University Press, Kent State University Press and Temple University Press received a Mellon grant to create a new series of books on Ethnomusicology by new authors called Ethnomusicology Multimedia. One of the key features of this new series of books is that discussion and content in the book will be linked to multimedia on the web so that readers will be able to see or hear the specific songs, dances, ceremonies, etc. that are being discussed in the books by linking to a web site and playing back video, audio or images related. To help the editors, authors and the presses work with and maintain this web site, the development staff at the Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities, are developing an online tool that will allow editors and authors to segment and annotate uploaded video, audio and image files and then provide the necessary information to link those annotated segments to references in the published books. But beyond assisting authors and editors, this new online tool will also assist the presses in determining the content to move to the web site so that readers will have access to the multimedia materials associated with a given book. In essence, like a content management system, the online tool will be a Annotation Management System, allowing the presses to copyedit, review and publish multimedia materials to the readers' web site to provide additional resources for the published book. I will discuss the process of designing and building the Online tool and demo a prototype that we have developed for the project.
Extending the Annotator's Workbench: From EVIADA to CAMVA
(Indiana University Digital Library Program, 2007-11-14) Durbin, Michael; Cowan, Will
FEDORA Digital Repository Architecture
(Indiana University Digital Library Program, 2003-12-12) Cowan, Will
HydraDAM2: Extending Fedora 4 and Hydra for Media Preservation
(2018-03-30) Dunn, Jon W.; Cariani, Karen; Cowan, Will; Hardesty, Juliet L.; Fraimow, Rebecca; Roosa, Sadie
The overarching goal of the HydraDAM2 project, funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Preservation and Access Research and Development program, was to extend the existing HydraDAM digital asset management system, developed with prior NEH support, to be able to serve as a digital preservation repository for time-based media collections implementable at a wide range of institutions using multiple digital storage strategies. The new open source digital preservation repository system developed as part of the project by partners Indiana University (IU) and WGBH, known as Phydo, is based on the Fedora 4.x digital repository system and Samvera (formerly Hydra) repository application development framework and is intended to support storage and long-term preservation management of audio and video files and their accompanying metadata. This white paper describes the work of the HydraDAM2 project to develop the Phydo system, along with future plans.
Iterative Development and Usability Testing for EVIA Digital Archive Project
(Indiana University Digital Library Program, 2007-09-26) Cowan, Will; Akram, Shah
New Tools for EVIA Digital Archive: Controlled Vocabulary and the Annotator's Workbench for Ethnomusicological Video for Instruction and Analysis Digital Archive Project
(Indiana University Digital Library Program, 2006-09-20) Cowan, Will
Omeka S and 3D Collections
(2018-04-27) Gniady, Tassie; Cowan, Will
Omeka S is a next-generation web publishing platform for institutions interested in connecting digital cultural heritage collections with other resources online. It allows for open linked data and for many sites to live under one installation. In this talk, we will explain the extended capabilities of Omeka S and take a tour of example sites populated with 3D models.
Representing Annotated Video in Omeka: Building an Omeka Plugin for the Annotator's Workbench
(Indiana University Digital Library Program, 2011-09-21) Cowan, Will
NEH has awarded a Digital Humanities Startup Grant to IU to create an Omeka plugin that will take the segmented and annotated video from the Annotator's Workbench and represent that information in Omeka. I plan to present the preliminary designs for representing segments and annotations in Omeka and discuss possible directions for this project. In addition, I plan to discuss the general infrastructure needed to support streaming video to a web site and demonstrate some tools that were developed at IDAH and the Digital Library to support such activities.
Using Digital Video in Omeka: Development of a Video Segmentation and Annotation Plugin
(Indiana University Digital Library Program, 2012-08-29) Cowan, Will
This presentation will showcase video segmentation and annotation functionality developed as a plugin to be used with Omeka, an open-source, exhibition software package. The plugin was made possible by a start up grant from the NEH Office of Digital Humanities. I will discuss two of the many potential functions this plugin provides for video in Omeka. First, it is able to represent interactive data on a timeline as videos play. This functionality makes it possible to use this tool in the classroom in a variety of ways, from presentation of data to students to the creation of videos and annotations by the students. In addition, this functionality is ideal for presenting video segments and annotation on an Omeka website so that you don't have to present entire videos but just important segments. Second, it is a tool that can be used for research, especially if it involves the representation of several streams of video. In their book The Maltese Touch of Evil: Film Noir and Potential Criticism, Richard Edwards and Shannon Scott Klute present the idea of an MTOE database, a collection of films noir that have been segmented and annotated and could be used to form the basis of new analyzes of the genre. How frequently and where do closeups occur in film noir? How dark is film noir, really? Do all men with guns wear hats in film noir? By segmenting the video and setting up side by side displays, this type of analysis becomes possible and provides a means to address questions that are often based on a few specially chosen films as opposed to many films across the genre. I will demo a preliminary version of this database using 20 public domain films noir and show how such an analysis could be done.
Workshop Session One: Andy Uhrich
(Black Film Center/Archive, Indiana University - Bloomington, 2013-11-16) Uhrich, Andy; Field, Allyson Nadia; Bernstein, Matthew; Lynch, Shola; Stewart, Jacqueline; Reside, Doug; Horak, Jan-Christopher; Graney, Brian; Cowan, Will; Francis, Terri
Workshop Session Two: Will Cowan
(Black Film Center/Archive, Indiana University - Bloomington, 2013-11-16) Cowan, Will; Field, Allyson Nadia; Francis, Terri; Reside, Doug; Stewart, Jacqueline; Lynch, Shola; Horak, Jan-Christopher; Walsh, John A.