About
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MetaVid is a community archive project for public domain US legislative footage. It was started in 2006 a thesis project of Michael Dale and Abram Stern under the advisement of Professor Warren Sack. Its continued development is supported by a grant from the sunlight foundation. You can read more about the archive here and more about metavidWiki software here
Supported By
In addition to the many individual contributors metavid is supported by:
In December of 2006 The Sunlight Foundation, provided metavid with a small grant which supported a month of software development and some additional hardware.
Film and Digital Media Department and CITRIS provide the space for the metavid servers
An NSF grant funded some early development.
Metavid was originally developed in the DANM (Digital Arts and New Media) program at UCSC. DANM provided the initial hardware for the project.
Special Thanks
The Metavid project has received advisement and support from: Jeff Ubois and Carl Malamud
While Metavid was an MFA thesis project it was under the advisement of Professor Warren Sack, Margaret Morse, Sharon Daniel, Jim Whitehead, and Isabel Reichert.
- ^j developer of ffmpeg2theora
- conrad (developer of oggzchop and other annodex tech)
- Zalman (help with pd overlay)
- Nelson & Gavin of Free Culture
- Gerald Barnett (ucsc legal council)
- Ray for finding Peanut Butter & Etch-a-Sketch
- EFF for legal counseling,
- Mark James at famfamfam.com for his creative commons icons
- Lyle Troxell (technical help for DANM)
- everyone on #annodex has been helpfull :)
Open Source Software
Metavid incorporates and uses many FLOSS (Free/Libre & Open Source Software) projects.
- A standard LAMP stack: (fedora core linux,php, mysql, apache)
- Server Side:
- mod_annodex
- ffmpeg-php
- ogg-theora(xiph.org)
- gocr
- ivtv
- Server Side Applications:
- word press
- mediaWiki
- semantic mediaWiki
- Client side Javascript and Plugins:
- vlc & annodex firefox plugin (annodex)
- firefox
