Milkbar.com.au

Milkbar.com.au: Meta-data Analysis Engine (Content is King!)

This is a ‘hypertextual history’ documentary about the inner-city suburb of Fitzroy, in Melbourne, Australia. If you have been redirected here from milkbar.com.au, then most of the work is no longer generally available, however some of the major components of the work still are.

This is an experiment using a ‘meta-data analysis engine‘ to categorise and search (video-recorded) oral-history online (completed October 2002). You can search the 12 hours of interviews via the 4 categories that I have indexed within the video (there are about 200 index points). You can arrange and re-arrange the video according to an active, user-centred approach. This reveals the complex task of working with oral history and its multiple set of relationships and subjectivities. This work formed part of the ETD project (Electronic Thesis and Dissertation) Milkbar.com.au. The project won the ‘Innovative Learning through ETD Award’ at the 2005 International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Disertation.

• Read about how this experiment fits within the context of new media and computing within the humanities.
• Read about ‘hypertextual video’ and its application to the historical study of Fitzroy Australia
• Read about gentrification in Fitzroy
• Read why you would want to make an Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) in the first place?
• Read why obsolescence isn’t such a bad thing (and is a component of innovation).
• And read why content is King (or why bad beer is still bad beer; regardless of what container it comes in).

Also check out the local section which contains all the movies recorded for the study; streamed in a conventional manner. Please note; only click on the local link on the top left hand corner to navigate between the various local profiles, otherwise you will be re-directed back to here.