I’m really looking forward to presenting at the Grassroots Use of Technology conference at UMass Lowell next weekend with a few of my fellow Boston Action Tank cohorts, Marie Celestin, Aliza Dichter, Denise Moorehead, and Ada Robinson. Here’s a description of our panel, entitled “Strategies for Shaping the Media/Tech Future: Policy, Funding & Organizing“:
The [...]

From Bill Densmore:
“On Aug. 7-8, the Media Giraffe Project at UMass Amherst helped convene ‘Journalism That Matters: The DC Sessions,’ at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. The event brought together more than 150 journalism editors, mainstream and web/citizen journalists and mission-driven activists with the aim of planning ‘The Next Newsroom’ prototype.
OVERALL LINK: http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-dc
A couple [...]

The photo above includes some notes from the “Open Access at University - OpenCourseWare and Beyond” afternoon working group session at yesterday’s IS2K7 conference.
This session provided an opportunity for participants to learn more from Anne Margulies about MIT’s OpenCourseWare project and some of the opportunities and challenges.
Here are some of my notes from the working [...]

Here are my notes from Brian Newman’s (ReNew Media) talk at at CCNMTL’s Video, Education, and Open Content conference:
ReNew Media is founded by Rockefeller Foundation to help media artists with funding their projects. ReNew offers Media Arts Scholarships and in this process they hear a lot about what filmmakers and media artists do not [...]

Here are my notes from Richard Lucier’s (Scholarly Communication Institute) talk at CCNMTL’s Video, Education, and Open Content conference:
Scholarly Communications Institute (SCI) is a 6 year Project, funded by the Mellon Institute and “housed” at the University of Virginia. The Institute is involved with:

Research and Discovery
Analysis
Presentation
Presentation
Dissemination
Access and Use

SCI is involved mainly with Humanities scholars (interest [...]

Here my notes from some of Josh Nathan’s (Thirteen/WNET) talk during the “Video, Education and the Law” session at Day Two of CCNMTL’s Video, Education, and Open Content conference:
Traditionally the way that we negotiate rights are in terms of manner of media and terms of use. As well as exclusivity. The bottom line [...]

Here are my notes from Rick Prelinger’s (Prelinger Archives and Internet Archive) keynote at CCNMTL’s Video, Education, and Open Content conference:
Title: “Remarks from a recovered archivist” - The promise of educational media.
There have been 1/4 million of (audio/visual) works produced for educators.

What can we do?

1. Leverage existing resources - we need to free educational materials [...]

Notes from Peter Gerhardt’s (BBC Creative Archive) talk at CCNMTL’s Video, Education, and Open Content conference:
They determined a portion of the BBC archive to release for re-use by the people who pay for the BBC in the UK. But before setting out on the project they had to prove that it would have an impact [...]

Here are some (brief) notes from Murray Weston’s (British Universities Film and Video Council) presentation at CCNMTL’s Video, Education and Open Content conference:
Metadata is king (not always content).
There is something giving in the rights clearance process:

Greater collaboration with owners
Growing understanding of education’s needs
Formal reviews are working to clarify exception
New licensing arrangements to be offered within [...]

Peter Brantley’s (Digital Library Federation) presentation at CCNMTL’s Video, Education and Open Content conference was titled “The Library interface”. He began by showing “A Fair(y) Use Tale” a video mashup by Eric Faden. Here are some notes from Peter’s talk:

What does a library actually do?

There are not many books on music in the [...]