Uploading, Archiving & Accessing Videos at Internet Archive
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The document provides an overview of video archiving services at the Internet Archive, a nonprofit digital library. It details how users can upload, access, and retrieve video content through various features such as curated collections, video embedding, derivative formats, and time-based access. The Internet Archive aims to provide universal access to human knowledge by archiving over 250,000 public domain and openly licensed videos for free alongside other media.
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Uploading, Archiving & Accessing Videos at Internet Archive
- 1. Video at Internet Archive An overview on uploading, archiving, and accessing videos Open Video Conference June 2009 tracey jaquith archive.org
- 2. Internet Archive Overview ● nonprofit ● opensource ● accredited digital library ● focuses on digital preservation of books, videos, audio, the web, more ● 250,000+ videos with many benefits compared to other video upload services
- 3. "Universal access to human knowledge" Mission to allow free uploading, storage, and serving for all ● 250K+ videos ● 1.5 million books ● 400K music / concerts ● 150 billion web pages Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.
- 4. Video hosting differences ● Transcode videos to other formats ● Store forever with no advertisements ● Lifetime management of videos -- as new formats become popular we create them ● Can retrieve clip segments from within videos -- perfect for mashups! ● Multilingual subtitling ● Curated collections...
- 5. Curated Collections ● Democracy Now! ● US congress (w/ Metavid) ● Prelinger archives ● games / speed runs ● cartoons / animations ● feature films and more!
- 6. night of the living dead
- 7. Mashup Demo http://www-tracey.archive.org/test/mashup.htm <head><script src="http://www.archive.org/includes/mashup.js" language="javascript"></script></head><body> http://www.archive.org/download/to-SF/toSF_512kb.mp4?t=9/39
- 8. Mashup Demo Technologies from: ● Metavid ● Wikimedia ● xiph.org ● annodex ● h264.code-shop.com
- 9. Derivatives Ensure Preservation -- store original video forever User Accessibility -- formats popular/usable vs. quality/bandwidth Over time change "derived" formats by using original Tools /libraries we use: ● ffmpeg ● lib-oggz ● libtheora ● mp4creator We add metadata to derivatives: ● author/director ● title ● date/year ● CC license ● /details/ page link
- 10. New <video> tag! example: <video controls="true" autoplay="true" src="http://www.archive.org/download/to-SF/toSF.ogv"/> Trivial video embedding - should revolutionize video! Firefox 3.5 release! Re-derived our videos to Ogg Theora
- 11. Ogg Theora video Thought to be most free, unencumbered video codec Libraries/tools available from: ● xiph.org (libtheora) ● annodex.net/software/liboggz ● ffmpeg
- 12. Derivative Questions ● Do popular sites like youtube drive the choice of formats? ● How can one best avoid rights and technology issues? ● re-deriving? what about prior formats?
- 13. Seeking Jumping into streams: ● oggzchop for .ogv ● mod_h264_streaming + lighttpd for h.264 .mp4 Timecodes, standards for accessing: ● annodex.net/TR/draft-pfeiffer-temporal-fragments-03.html ● archive.org/download/to-SF/toSF_512kb.mp4?t=74.5
- 14. ACCESS Uploading: ● support FTP, HTTP, rsync, S3 ● single or bulk ● human or robot/script We provide: ● web page per "item" ● permalinks to media files ● HTML embed code for off-site playback ● JSON information
- 15. DEMOS
- 16. Upload Demo
- 17. JSON Demo Comprehensive JSON API ● search ● summary metadata in bulk ● detailed metadata for an item Use same JSON on our back-end using "server side javascript" to create the web page HTML for each item
- 18. Wikimedia Demo Welcome Michael Dale!
- 19. Video at Internet Archive An overview on uploading, archiving, and accessing videos tracey jaquith archive.org