Just wanted to chime in here on the question of captioning. We use YT
auto-captioning and then have humans correct it. YT auto-captioning alone
is not acceptable at UC Berkeley, so we take the extra step. So far we have
found no other more cost-effective method to get good captioning without
Hi Sina - You are correct! And I did not mean to imply that the transcripts
provided by YT are perfect. They are not at all.
However, UCLA's office of ADA compliance has told us that they are ok with
us providing captions in this way. There is definitely much work to be done
on this front - I'd
Because Susan mentioned captions below, I just wanted to make one thing really
clear. I don't mean to disagree, Susan, and it's not the main topic of this
thread, so apologies to the OP ahead of time, but it's critical to understand
that automatically generated captions are not sufficient for
Hi Ellice -
We have lots of videos on YouTube and are currently adding on the order of
100 each year. We think of YT as another social media outlet, and it's an
important distribution channel for us.
Agree with Matt about the lack of control over the content that's delivered
at the end of the
Hi Ellice,
We have a lot of video currently hosted on YouTube at the DAM. We're still
using it for some purpose, but we've recently been moving away from it for some
purposes, as well.
Regarding copyright: I think the biggest risk of copyright issues on youtube is
that it has a very large
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Dear Ellice and all,
Thanks for raising this important discussion, which to me addresses the next
wave of online awareness for museums (ethical concerns, related to leveraging
dominant social media platforms).
In the Netherlands there have been numerous accounts related to your second
point.
I've certainly used unlisted videos before (i.e. only accessible via
direct link) - no technological barriers there.
On 14/10/2019 14:27, Ellice Engdahl wrote:
Hello, all,
While we have plenty of "modern" video out on YouTube, we currently host most
our historic and collections-item videos
Hello, all,
While we have plenty of "modern" video out on YouTube, we currently host most
our historic and collections-item videos (e.g. oral history video clips) on a
private streaming platform. We don't use much of the functionality provided by
the private platform, so the question has come
