The event will feature presentations and discussion on topics such as:

• active open media standardization projects
• seeking consensus in audiovisual preservation strategy
• examination of open media use in film and video digitization
• validation and conformance checking of audiovisual formats
• integration of open source tools into archival workflow
• examples of cross-community collaboration and skill-sharing
• developments in open media

If you can’t make it to the conference, make sure to sign up as a “remote participant” and catch the livestream! You can register for the livestream here and find more details of the conference here.

Live video technology is one of the most recent innovations making waves in the human rights world, as highlighted by Program Director Sam Gregory in his recent WIRED magazine article, How We Can Use Livestreaming Apps to Promote Justice.  The piece analyzes how mobile livestreaming is changing the very nature of human rights witnessing. As with any technology, Sam argues, there are still many unknowns and challenges, but there are also overwhelming possibilities for livestreaming apps to aid human rights defenders.

Live video takes many of the possibilities of recorded video and accentuates them. It pulls in and engages a distant audience with the visceral experience of what is happening on the ground—and makes it much more tangible because it is “now.” It makes us all, even if we are not in the same physical space, direct witnesses to rights violations.

See the full WIRED article here.