Online Multimedia for Researchers

Online Multimedia for Researches: Archives & Metasites By Darren Chase, Stony Brook Southampton Librarian

The Web is rich with multimedia content. The Web provides easy access to multimedia content. The Web facilitates effective sharing of multimedia content. Multimedia + the Web = Great for Researchers

learning objective

Explore select multimedia metasites and archives: Internet Archive, American Memory & ibiblio.org

Use multimedia metasites and archives to access audio, video and images

Cite multimedia content

Web tools for organizing and sharing multimedia content

Internet Archive

“The Internet Archive , a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.”

Founded in 1996, located in San Francisco, CA

Includes: texts, audio, moving images, software, archived web pages (the WayBack Machine )

American Memory

“ American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity … serving the public as a resource for education and lifelong learning.”

Launched in 1994 by the Library of Congress

ibiblio.org

“ one of the largest ‘collections of collections’ on the Internet, ibiblio.org is a conservancy of freely available information, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies.”

ibiblio.org is a collaboration of the School of Information and Library Science and the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill .

Cite Online Multimedia

APA, Chicago, MLA, Turabian www.proquestk12.com/pic/pdfs/ProQuest_Citation_Guide.pdf excellent citation examples from the online database ProQuest

MLA Style http:// lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/mla.html#online from the Media Resources Center, Moffitt Library, UC Berkeley

MLA Style Outline

Author's Last Name, First Name OR Corporate/Institutional Author Name (if known)

Title of Document or File

Document date OR date of last revision

Medium (e.g. Online video clip)

Title of larger web site in which clip is located

Name of hosting library or agency (if appropriate).

Access DateURL (web address)

via the Moffitt Library, UC Berkeley

Citation Examples

Lucasfilm, Ltd. "Star Wars Trailer." 05 November 1999. Online video clip. Star Wars Official Site. Accessed on 02 April 2008. < http://starwars.com/episode-i/news/trailer/ > "Daughter Turns Dad In." CNN Video. Online video clip. CNN.com Accessed on 04 April 2008.

Shimabukuro, Jake. "Ukulele weeps by Jake Shimabukuro." 04 April 2008. Online video clip. YouTube. Accessed on 22 April 2006. < http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puSkP3uym5k >

Society of Spectacle. Dir. Guy Debord. 1973. Online video clip. Ubuweb.com. Accessed on 09 October 2007. < http://www.ubu.com/film/debord_spectacle.html >

Online Multimedia Communities

Teaching & learning

MERLOT Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching

SciVee.tv science teaching, learning and research media

TeacherTube the "YouTube" of teaching and instruction (mostly K-12)

Vidpedia a "Wikipedia" of video content; "free video encyclopedia anyone can edit"

General

Blip.tv video blogging and podcasting community for user-created content

Flickr image and video sharing social network

OurMedia user-created, grassroots media

Vimeo user-created video sharing; favored by video artists for its high-quality video files

YouTube

More Online Multimedia Communities

How To

5min Life Videopedia

eHow

Expert Village

MonkeySee

Sutree

ViewDo

VideoJug

WEB TOOLS FOR ORGANIZING AND SHARING MULTIMEDIA CONTENT

SlideShare ( http://www.slideshare.com/ ) share PowerPoint and Keynote presentations online

Delicious ( http://www.delicious.com/ ) social link sharing site; effective for collecting, organizing and sharing links to multimedia content online

Flock Browse r ( http://flock.com/ ) social web browser and tool for collecting and sharing multimedia content

FriendFeed ( http://friendfeed.com/ ) your own clearinghouse for content feeds from your various social networks, as well as your friends and colleagues

Multimedia Searching

All Media

alltheweb Multimedia ( http://www.multimedia.alltheweb.com/ )

CC Search ( http://search.creativecommons.org/ )

Audio

AltaVista Audio ( http://www.altavista.com/audio/default )

Woonz ( http://woonz.com/ )

Yahoo! Audio ( http://audio.search.yahoo.com/ )

Images

Clusty ( http://images.clusty.com/ )

Google ( http://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en )

Yahoo! ( http://images.search.yahoo.com/ )

Video

Google Video ( http://video.google.com/ )

Yahoo! Video ( http://video.search.yahoo.com/ )

Thank You! Questions? Darren Chase: 632.9830 [email_address]

Resources

IMAGES

“ spiral” by Slightly-Less-Random

“ gas masks” by Avi Abrams

“ zIMG_0641” by re-Verse

SELECT MULTIMEDIA METASITES

American Memory ( http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html ) from the Library of Congress; historical multimedia digital collections covering all of America’s history

ibiblio.org ( http://www.ibiblio.org/ ) consortium of myriad digital collections, including excellent video and audio

Internet Archive ( http://archive.org ) cornucopia of multimedia content, including the exceptional Prelinger Film Archives

iTunes U ( http://www.apple.com/education/itunesu_mobilelearning/itunesu.html ) works through iTunes – must have iTunes installed on your computer; online educational multimedia podcasts

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