Warren Sack, associate professor in Film & Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will outline “discourse architecture,” an approach to designing software for community and then focus on one example of discourse architecture, Metavid.org, currently under development by Michael Dale and Aphid Stern at the Social Computing Lab at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Metavid.org is a Web 2.0 site that hosts an archive of video footage of U.S. House and Senate floor proceedings.

This seminar will extend discussions began at the CHRDR's public conference last month, "Human Rights Archives and Documentation: Meeting the Needs of Research, Teaching, Advocacy and Social Justice," a seminal international gathering of over 240 activists, scholars, and librarians.

Professor Greenberg is professor of history and executive director of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education at the University of Southern California.

Over the years, Columbia has acquired and produced many materials related to Harlem's rich artistic, social, and political history. Numerous treasures in Columbia's libraries, departmental archives, and courseware repositories—from books, documents, photographs, artwork, to music, oral histories, film and video collections, architectural renderings, even born-digital projects—explicate the role of Harlem from a variety of perspectives and explore the relationship between contemporary and historical Harlem.

The Harlem Digital Archive will highlight the potential of Harlem resources at Columbia to support various scholarly projects both inside and outside the classroom. The project will strengthen funding efforts to support the development and production of audiovisual curricula with the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute for Museum and Library Services, and others. The project also will facilitate the development and production of nationally and internationally distributed media projects—including public broadcasting documentaries on the subject of Harlem.

Join CCNMTL for a discussion on how this online archive plans to draw on digital resources here at Columbia and elsewhere that illuminate Harlem's rich artistic, social, and political history, activating new forms of engagements with these materials in learning environments.

Rosenzweig will reflect on some of the work of the Center for History and New Media as the basis for talking about the possibilities and problems of achieving a democratic digital past.

This seminar will discuss the first two established Triangle projects in the CCNMTL portfolio:

Multimedia Connect: Susan Witte, The School of Social Work & Jessica Rowe, CCNMTL

Connect is a proven HIV intervention model for working with couples at risk of transmitting HIV to each other. CCNMTL, in partnership with the Social Intervention Group at the Columbia University School of Social Work, will translate this intervention to multimedia (creating "Multimedia Connect") in order to enable its wide dissemination to health service, social service, and community- based practitioners in New York State, other states in the U.S., and beyond our borders. In addition, components of Multimedia Connect will become core teaching tools used within the School of Social Work to train the next generation of practitioners about intervention techniques, Connect, and HIV/AIDS risk reduction.

Collateral Consequences of Criminal Prosecution: Conrad Johnson, Columbia Law School & Jessica Rowe, CCNMTL

This unique resource allows one to compare the collateral consequences of New York State criminal charges across of variety of doctrinal areas. It will serve multiple communities in a variety of ways: faculty can build case studies around it, lawyers can use it to help them better counsel their clients, judges can use it to help assure appropriate sentencing, and public policy researchers can use it as a lens to examine the matrix of the New York State legal system. Judge Kaye, Chief Justice of New York State, has supported the development of this tool, which she sees as a valuable social justice initiative.

In this and other writing, Dr. Vaidhyanathan has promoted a "hacker ethic" that "rests on openness, peer review, individual autonomy, and communal responsibility." In the seminar, he will discuss the implications of Google's Book Search service on reading, writing, and research.

Students who use VITAL learn to master close viewing skills and articulate their ideas with both text and video, utilizing multimedia for active expression rather than passive reception. VITAL features tools that enable students to edit, annotate, and store clips that they select from a course’s video library. Students then use these clips as multimedia citations in essays that are published within the VITAL environment for review and critique by the instructor and classmates.

VITAL also offers a guided lesson template that allows instructors to create linear, question-by-question exercises. These lessons mimic real-time events in which students must make an interpretation or decision based on limited information. After answering a question, students might read an expert’s commentary, encouraging them to reflect and refine their thinking.

VITAL has been the subject of numerous studies, papers, and presentations examining its impact on student learning, new pedagogical approaches to the classroom and online, and applications such as pre-professional training. For more information, please see the VITAL project’s public Web site.

CCNMTL is committed to working with faculty partners to make VITAL an effective pedagogical tool that enhances both teaching and learning for each course.

Join CCNMTL for a demonstration of VITAL 3.0 and a panel discussion on how the use of video has evolved in educational practice.

Long a champion of unfettered exchange in networked environments, Benkler will describe new opportunities for educators as technology enables large-scale sharing of previously compartmentalized resources.

Informedia
Informedia digital video research focuses on improving access to broadcast video information through speech recognition, computer vision, and natural language processing techniques. Automatically derived descriptors for the video are used to construct information visualization interfaces for querying, summarizing, and browsing the video. For over 12 years, Informedia has recorded and analyzed several hours a day of CNN, Chinese, and Arabic news video.

CareMedia
CareMedia research centers on the automatic analysis of audio and video for behavioral research. Their most recent work captured video from 23 cameras in public spaces of a nursing home dementia ward. Video was captured from each camera, 24 hours a day for 25 days. The data collected totaled over 13,000 hours of video stored on 35 Terabytes of hard disks. Clearly, this volume of data precludes manual analysis.

CareMedia's interdisciplinary research is developing, integrating, and refining a suite of tools supporting the automatic collection, annotation, access, analysis, and archiving of such massive amounts of behavioral data. These tools capture a continuous audiovisual record of individual and group activity in various settings and apply machine intelligence technology to automatically process that record for efficient use by analytical observers to monitor situational behavior over time. The annotated record provides a level of completeness not feasible with human observers, and allows, for the first time, large-scale longitudinal clinical and behavioral research based on continuously captured and processed data, enabled through extensible interfaces accessing such voluminous records in a user-friendly utilitarian manner.

Dr. Moss-Salentijn is the Dr. Edwin S. Robinson Professor of Dentistry in Anatomy and Cell Biology and Senior Associate Dean in the School of Dental and Oral Surgery.