Internet Archive Now Supports HTML5 for a Half Million Videos
The Archive, which is best known for hosting older versions of websites, is using technology from open-source video companyKaltura to get the job done.
The Kaltura video player automatically recognizes whether a user’s device and browser need a Flash or an HTML5 player. Then, the video content gets delivered accordingly.
The Wikimedia Foundation is also using Kaltura’s tools in a related project.
The Internet Archive’s video library contains more than 500,000 educational assets, most of which are under Creative Commons licenses. These assets will now be more accessible, particularly on mobile devices, including iOS devices, as well as on HTML5-supporting browsers.
And because Kaltura’s technology supports the HTML5 standard for timed text such as subtitles, hearing-impaired and multilingual users will also benefit from the videos.
“As the leading open source video company, our goal is to enable advanced online video functionalities on any device using free and open standards and technologies,” said Ron Yekutiel, Kaltura’s chairman and CEO, in a release Wednesday morning. “Our mission is even more so inspiring and impactful where free educational content is also coupled with these tools, as is the case with the Internet Archive and the Wikimedia Foundation.”
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An Internet Archivist Recommits to Books
June 10, 2011
A funny thing happened while Brewster Kahle was fighting valiantly to preserve the digital life of the internet at the Internet Archive … he fell for books. After 15 years of relentlessly preserving and guaranteeing access to the fading history of life online, Kahle explains why he’s recently undertaken an ambitious actual library, with actual books.
http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2011/06/10/03
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