John is an IT consultant, data steward, digital media archivist, and Special Projects Wizard from Eureka, CA associated with Access Humboldt.
He founded the Community Media Archive in 2009, in partnership with the Internet Archive and Access Humboldt, as a place where public access TV stations and Community Media Centers can archive and share their video programs. It has grown to encompass 2,125,000 videos from 1,750 access centers and government entities from around the country.
As part of his semi-automated Youtube -> Archive project, he has added more than 1,970,000 videos and associated metadata from access center’s Youtube & Vimeo channels to the Community Media Archive, preserving the outreach to and engagement of community members through communication methods beyond the traditional local PEG (Public, Education, Government) cable TV channels.
For videos archived from YouTube channels, he includes English and Spanish captions auto-generated by YouTube to those videos in the Archive.
Communities with significant non-English speaking members can ask for the download of Youtube auto-generated captions in 104 other languages. John has worked with various local communities to provide captioning of videos in Arabic, Portuguese, Hmong, Somali, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Russian, Ukrainian, and Hawaiian languages in addition to English and Spanish.
He has spoken at ten ACM National and 20 ACM Regional conferences about the Community Media Archive and helped many access centers in understanding how to work effectively with the Internet Archive.
He also plays with small single-board computers such as the Raspberry Pi and Odroid and likes to build HiDefinition music players and Roon endpoints based on them…