{"id":17976,"date":"2013-02-02T10:27:46","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T18:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=8510"},"modified":"2013-02-02T10:27:46","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T18:27:46","slug":"combining-citizen-video-journalism-with-html5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/02\/combining-citizen-video-journalism-with-html5\/","title":{"rendered":"Combining citizen video journalism with HTML5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UC Berkeley&#8217;s interesting\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/automation.berkeley.edu\/rashomon\/\">Rashomon Project<\/a> is billed as\u00a0&#8220;An Online Toolkit for Assembling Multi-Perspective Chronologies.&#8221; In other words, it takes multiple videos, auto-aligns them (by analyzing their metadata &amp; audio signatures), and presents them via an <a href=\"http:\/\/rashomonproject.org\/experimental\/\">HTML5 interface<\/a>. &#8220;Our goal,&#8221; they say, &#8220;is to allow the public (potentially hundreds of thousands of viewers) to gain a much better understanding of contested events from user-generated photos and video than is currently possible.&#8221; Here&#8217;s their 1-minute <a href=\"http:\/\/rashomonproject.org\/demo.html\">demo video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: By coincidence I just discovered that Andy Baio <a href=\"http:\/\/waxy.org\/2013\/01\/inglewood_police_chase_synchronized_split-screen\/\">synchronized TV coverage of a car chase<\/a> with man-on-the-street footage of the same broadcast &#038; chase:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"239\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xiIgYVgGT6s\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UC Berkeley&#8217;s interesting\u00a0Rashomon Project is billed as\u00a0&#8220;An Online Toolkit for Assembling Multi-Perspective Chronologies.&#8221; In other words, it takes multiple videos, auto-aligns them (by analyzing their metadata &amp; audio signatures), and presents them via an HTML5 interface. &#8220;Our goal,&#8221; they say, &#8220;is to allow the public (potentially hundreds of thousands of viewers) to gain a much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17976"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}