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Digital Video Navigation and Archival Content Management Tools for Non-linear Oral History Narratives
- Project Director(s):
- Peter Asaro
- Author(s):
- Peter Asaro
- Date:
- 2014
- Group(s):
- Data Rescue
- Subject(s):
- Science--Philosophy, Technology--Philosophy, Science, Technology, History, Medicine--Philosophy, Medicine
- Item Type:
- White paper
- Institution:
- New School
- Tag(s):
- NEH White papers, Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants, NEH Digital Humanities, History and philosophy of science and technology, History and philosophy of medicine
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6X36T
- Abstract:
- This project will enable public oral history archives of audio and video materials to present history in a way that makes it more accessible to public web users, students and educators, while allowing historians to present non-linear historical narratives. Through new open source video tools, it will support the intuitive navigation of large media archives. These tools will initially support a project on the oral history of robotics, which includes an existing archive of video interviews with pioneers in the field. Current on-line archives of materials are difficult to navigate and are forced into flat linear structures, while those with search capabilities rarely offer intuitive or accessible interfaces for non-specialists. The envisioned tools will exploit the latest capabilities of HTML5 to present materials (e.g., documents, maps, photos, and webpages and related archival videos) as a video is being viewed and navigate video in non-linear paths.
- Notes:
- This project builds on advances in HTML 5 to allow non-linear, hypertextual connections within audio and video archives of humanities materials, with the Oral History of Robotics archive serving as a test case.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 6 years ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial
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