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MEP Receives NEH Grants
MEP will build a collection of Accessible Civil Rights Newsfilm and study how to help blind and low vision students work with archival video. -
MEP Receives NEH Grants
MEP will build a resource combining human- and machine-generated data on over 400 silent films. -
The Semantic Annotation Tool
A simple jQuery plugin and server enabling time-based media annotation on the web -
Paper Print Collection Study
Members of the renowned DOMITOR research society to study early silent films that are being digitally transferred and preserved at the Library of Congress. -
Machine Vision Search
Finding low-cost, easy ways to make archives searchable using machine learning. -
“In the Life” Study
Historic public television program that assayed the history of gay and lesbian lived experience in the United States will be preserved and placed online by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. -
Historical News Media Study
Scholars from multiple institutions are using MEP-connected tools to design a broad study of historic newsreels, newsfilm, and newscasts -
Films Division of India Study
Studying the legacy of documentaries and informational films archived at Films Division in Mumbai, India.
The Media Ecology Project (MEP) is a digital lab at Dartmouth College directed by Prof. Mark Williams that enables researcher access to archival moving image collections and contribution of critical analysis back to the archival and research communities. The Media Ecology Project enables new research capacities toward the critical understanding of historical media and facilitates expanded research context bridging technical, disciplinary, and epistemological boundaries.
Latest news from MEP
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Prof. Williams delivers the inaugural annual Ebert Lecture at The Roger Ebert Center for Film Studies at The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Lobby Card Digitization Project (Dwight Cleveland, National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, Library of Congress)
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Deep Screens: MEP and DEV Studio Receive Mellon Foundation Public Knowledge Grant