Good afternoon:
Was great to see many of you at conference.
Thought this announcement in re Zeega, "a n open-source HTML5 platform
for creating interactive documentaries" might be of interest. It is
in alpha. You can sign up for updates. Here is a story from the
Harvard Gazette: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/06/from-a-to-zeega/
Congrats to all the Knight Foundation media innovation winners:
http://www.knightfoundation.org/press-room/press-release/knight-foundation-media-innovation-contest-announc/
Regards,
Cathy
Catherine H. Michael
Communications & Legal Studies Librarian
Ithaca College Library
Gannett Center 1201, 953 Danby Road
Ithaca, NY 14850
phone: 607-274-1293
http://comlaw.wordpress.com/
Begin forwarded message:
From: Seth Young <[email protected]>
Date: June 24, 2011 8:59:05 AM EDT
To: [email protected]
Subject: Congratulations, Zeega! a winner of the 2011 Knight News
Challenge
Reply-To: [email protected], Seth Young <[email protected]
>
Good morning,
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is
pleased to share some terrific news from our metaLAB (at) Harvard
colleagues: Zeega is a winner of the 2011 Knight News Challenge!
The full announcement from Zeega instigators Kara Oehler, Jesse
Shapins, and James Burns can be found below.
Zeega <http://zeega.org/> is an open-source HTML5 platform for
creating interactive documentaries. It's being developed at the
recently founded metaLAB (at) Harvard <http://metalab.harvard.edu/>,
hosted by the Berkman Center. We're proud to have supported Mapping
Main Street -- Kara, Jesse, and James's earlier collaboration, which
inspired the development of Zeega -- and we're excited to be
continuing to help via the metaLAB.
The Harvard Gazette has a story up with more background <http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/06/from-a-to-zeega/
>. Check it out, and the announcement below...
And congratulations, Kara, Jesse, James, and team!
(Not to mention all the other awesome 2011 Knight News Challenge
winners...congrats!)
Seth Young
Communications
Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Harvard University
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June 22, 2011
Dear Friends,
We are excited to announce that Zeega <http://zeega.org/> is a
winner of the 2011 Knight News Challenge!
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s Knight News Challenge <http://newschallenge.org
> is an international contest to fund digital news experiments that
use technology to inform and engage communities.
So what is Zeega? It’s an open-source HTML5 platform for creating
interactive documentaries. Zeega makes it easy to collaboratively
produce, curate and publish participatory multimedia projects on
web, tablet and mobile devices.
Zeega was founded in 2010 by journalist Kara Oehler, media artist
Jesse Shapins, and creative technologist James Burns. We first
started working together while developing Mapping Main Street <http://mappingmainstreet.org/
>, a collaborative documentary co-created with radio producer Ann
Heppermann and funded through the Association of Independents in
Radio’s MQ2 initiative <http://mq2.org/> and the Berkman Center for
Internet & Society.
We built Mapping Main Street from scratch while also producing
stories for NPR. But ultimately, to pull it off, Kara had to put her
stuff in storage and live out of her car for the summer. Afterward,
we decided people shouldn’t have to give up their homes to make
collaborative documentaries. So, we’re creating Zeega.
Zeega will enable anyone to craft participatory documentary projects
that combine original content with photos, videos, text, audio and
maps via APIs from across the web. Our mission is not only to give
voice to individuals, but to create a platform that empowers
individuals to give voice to others.
Zeega is being developed into a mature and robust open source
platform at the metaLAB (at) Harvard <http://metalab.harvard.edu/>,
a new hub for innovation in the arts, media and humanities at the
Berkman Center, as well as at AIR <http://airmedia.org/>, PRX <http://www.prx.org/
>, The Sensory Ethnography Lab <http://sel.fas.harvard.edu/> and
UnionDocs <http://www.uniondocs.org/>. Zeega is housed within the
independent 501(c)3 non-profit Media And Place (MAP) Productions <http://media-and-place.org
>, created with the help of the Citizen Media Law Project <http://www.citmedialaw.org/
>. Our ultra-early alpha prototype has been tested with Sensate <http://www.sensatejournal.com/
>, a journal for experiments in critical media practice, as well in
new media documentary courses such as The Mixed-Reality City <http://mixedrealitycity.org/
> and Media Archaeology of Place <http://mediaarchaeologyofplace.org/
>. Zeega is also being furthered with the support of the Harvard
Library Lab <http://osc.hul.harvard.edu/liblab> through extraMUROS <http://extramuros.zeega.org
> (a project in the Beta Sprint of the Digital Public Library of
America <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/dpla>), which
provides new tools to browse and visualize media from repositories
across the web.
With the Knight News Challenge grant, we will expand our
experimental Zeega prototype to work on web, tablet and mobile
devices. We will be starting a new audio and interactive documentary
show, as well as partnering with AIR on their new MQ2-inspired
initiative, a national hyperlocal storytelling project, and looking
for other pilot partners starting in the fall. Stay tuned for an
announcement on our website and join our list to sign up for updates
and to become a beta tester: http://zeega.org/
- Kara, James, Jesse and the Zeega team
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