Drumbeat/events/Festival/program/globallivesproject

Calling all social science teachers, geohackers, HTML5 video-geeks, semantic web gurus, linguists and filmmakers!

The Global Lives Project is building a free video library of human life experience, recorded, tagged, bookmarked, edited and remixed by collaborators from dozens of countries around the world. We have already produced 24-hour video recordings of the daily life of individuals from Brazil, Malawi, Japan, China, India, Indonesia, Serbia, Lebanon, Kazakhstan and the US, all shot by volunteer filmmakers.

With the help of the Mozilla Foundation's Web Made Movies project, we've begun to craft an HTML5 video archive of this footage (250+ hours!) that is immersive and easily navigable by time, location, tag, bookmark and through dynamic semantic web datasets.

At the Drumbeat Festival, we propose to work together to develop new applications—both educational and technological—for the Global Lives Project video library, and figure out how it can be used in conjunction with curriculum from other open source, collaborative education projects, and how new multimedia curriculum can be developed in collaboration with Global Lives Project videomakers and translators.

Contact david at globallives dot org for more information!