Conference Videos

[Marc Berger]

Just looked at the utub hits for the first video on this thread The Hills are Alive ..East lomond 78 views(25/11/2014) Published on 19 Nov 2014. Its been up a few days(six). I don't imagine that all those views watched it through all the way or that all the audience at that lecture got everything out of it. but At some point the utub views of the lecture can only become more important than the number of people that were at the lecture (I imagine several thousand) but then possibly the utub audience take precedence and it could be argued that the lecturer should have been concentrating on "this audience rather that those that were in front of them at the time (a picture of the audience which might enable face recognition might be interesting). Thing is how do you find this lecture in utub world (via google). Picture / video recognition is pretty basic where as a text recognition is the meat and bones of googlites so called algorithms.

Looked at the metadata for the video and get <meta name="keywords" content="archaeology, Fife (Scottish Council Area), Lomond Hills (Mountain Range), Scotland, History">

I don't think that you are going to find the long tail that is archaeology that way. Have you thought about getting the lecture as full a transcript of their mumblings as possible and dumping it in the metaheader? just think that you will find a (paying) audience so much faster(consider foreign translations as well)

my thoughts on the lecture concentrating on the utub audience is that they probably should deliver the lecture from behind the audience (or facing the screen) so that they appreciate what the audience is looking at and that corresponds with the internet audience. makes things a bit more gender, disability, racist and age neutral as well.