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WMV Links to Video Tutorials Related to The HistoryMakers Digital Archive
This is an alternate page for video tutorials related to The HistoryMakers Digital Archive. Perhaps you want unnarrated Windows Media Audio/Video (WMV) format tutorials, or narrated WMV tutorials rather than the default Flash MP4 versions at the primary page. You will find the WMV tutorial links here.
One common problem with trying to play the videos on the primary page with Firefox: you may not have enabled the necessary JavaScript permissions. To correct the settings so that you can use the primary page tutorials, in Firefox navigate to the Tools Menu, Options... menu item, Content tab, and see that Enable JavaScript is checked. Also, look to the "Advanced..." button on that Content tab and click it to see that you have checked the scripts to allow the listed settings, which are used by Camtasia Studio 6 when producing this Flash MP4 tutorial video embedded in html. The alternative is to play the WMV links found on this page.
WMV Video Tutorials (with added audio narration)
- Differences in text search between match all, match any, and match on a phrase (3 minutes)
- Map search (to city, state, country) (2.5 minutes)
- Tag search (to inferred tags) (3 minutes)
- Search in search, and Great Story (2.5 minutes)
- Search filters by gender, birth year, etc. (2.5 minutes)
WMV Video Tutorials (without any extra audio narration)
- Differences in text search between match all, match any, and match on a phrase (3 minutes)
- Map search (to city, state, country) (2.5 minutes)
- Tag search (to inferred tags) (3 minutes)
- Search in search, and Great Story (2.5 minutes)
- Search filters by gender, birth year, etc. (2.5 minutes)
About The HistoryMakers Digital Archive
The HistoryMakers Digital Archive of 400 African American video oral history interviews is available online for the first time on a test basis to registered users. This archive includes 18254 stories from over 900 hours of video given by 400 HistoryMakers, recorded primarily from 1999 to 2005.
Founded in July of 1999, The HistoryMakers has grown into the nation's largest African American video oral history archive. Its collection includes the interviews of President Barack Obama (then an Illinois State Senator), civil rights leader Julian Bond, and children's advocate Marian Wright Edelman, to name a few.
The interface is being iteratively developed and refined, beginning with a strong foundation of work from the NSF-funded digital video library work that has taken place at Carnegie Mellon University under the Informedia research team. Some things may be unclear or new to you. The video tutorials above will hopefully help. Please share your comments with us when using The HistoryMakers Digital Archive and we will work toward eliminating the need for these tutorials altogether.
Thank you.
Julieanna Richardson, Executive Director, The HistoryMakers
Michael Christel, Principal Investigator, NSF research project "III-CXT: Enhancing Digital Video Libraries through the Evaluation and Transition of Automated Techniques for Visual Processing, Indexing and Access"