Software
From ActiveArchives
Core to the Active Archives project is the development of software to put into practice the project's goals. Rather than proposing a single monolithic application, AA aims to develop of a range of smaller software tools and plugins that work with other existing tools and established practices. All software from the project is released under a Free Software License, and made available via a subversion respository.
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[edit] Active Archives Browser
The latest incarnation of the "video wiki". It is currently being merged with the previous AA Server.
The Active Archives Browser inverts the paradigm of uploading resources into a centralized server and instead allows resources to remain "active", in-place and online. Caching and proxy functionality allows (light-weight) copies of resources to be manipulated and preserved even as the original sources change or become (temporarily) unavailable. Strategically, the project aims to clarify some of the "cloudy" aspects of Web 2.0 regarding issues of licensing, sharing, ownership, access, and longevity of online material.
The AA Browser is conceived as the foundation for an ongoing project of a "video wiki"; Designed to break open the "black box" of online video, users are encouraged to write with video, creating new compositions made from collages of disparate (online) elements. The Active Archives project (initiated by Constant in 2007) is an ongoing research project in collaboration with cultural institutions which aims to support a range of use from traditional archiving practice (collecting, annotating, preserving) through to new forms of breaking apart and reassembling elements in novel compositions, to themselves be shared for further (dis)assembly.
[edit] Active Archives Server
A "video wiki" supporting audio and video elements to be uploaded, transcoded, collectively annotated.
[edit] Videogrep
Videogrep was a "proof of concept" script to demonstrate how a subtitles file could be used as a means of editing.
[edit] Collage Code
Collage Code (software) is a "proof of concept" media player based on the idea to start from the "scrub bar" as a way of loosely joining different kinds of media: video, audio, HTML, images. In a nutshell, it allows time-based web-pages using simply placing HTML in an SRT format timesheet. See also Collage Code.
Code available via subversion.
[edit] Playlist
Playlist is a simple php-based script created to support a simple online "shared slide show". Users can upload their images via the web & choose where to place their image in the sequence.
Code available via subversion.
