SCARP Workshop: Building and Curating Online Video Corpora

22 April 2009

Univeristy of Edinburgh

Overview

This was a meeting of researchers and stakeholders in data service provision to discuss curation issues raised in our SCARP case study on the roles and re-usability of video data in social studies of interaction. This event aimed to raise mutual awareness of research communities' practices and needs for archiving, sharing and re-using digital video data; and identify how local and national research data services may contribute to the infrastructure for video data curation.

Read a report on the workshop and discussion [PDF, 30KB]

Target Audience

.The target audience for this event was academics/researchers using video as data in observational, experimental or practice-based research that employs social research methodologies; and institutional providers of relevant research data services and tools.

Duration and Location

This event was held at the Digital Curation Centre head offices (Appleton Tower, room 7.02) from 9.45am - 2.00pm

Programme

Introduction — aims of the workshop Chris Rusbridge (DCC Director) and Angus Whyte (DCC Research Officer)

Current uses of digital video data and the case for online corpora

Short scene-setting presentations from researchers that outlined:

How video is being used as observational or experimental data
How different research traditions and topics influence the technologies used
How online corpora of video and related materials would benefit their research communities by facilitating re-use, and the constraints on that.

"Where the Video Goes" Eric Laurier, Human Geography Research Group, School of Geosciences and SEDIT (Scottish Ethnomethodology Discourse, Interaction and Talk) Download presentation [PDF, 2.45MB]

"Eyetracking studies of gaze and perception of dynamic scenes" Robin Hill, Visual Cognition Group, Department of Psychology Download presentation [PPT, 366KB]

"Video analysis of interaction as input to medical applications development" Mark Hartswood, Social Informatics

Current developments to support Curation and Communication

"Edinburgh Datashare from project to service" Robin Rice, Edinburgh University Data Library Download presentation [PPT, 8526KB]

"VidioWiki: video as a medium for interdisciplinary and public communication" Nicola Hillhouse, Hillhouse Communications Download presentation [PPT, 1.26MB]

"The curation lifecycle and video research data" Angus Whyte, DCC Scarp Project Download presentation [PPT, 1.11MB]

Discussion

Issues discussed included:

Where is help most required with lifecycle-management issues?
Do lifecycle models help plan A/V data management?
Who would researchers look to for help?
What services will fit needs and how might they work between research groups, school-level and central services?
What do researchers and service providers expect each other to do to preserve & curate video-based research?