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• 1 2014-10-01T16:38:31-07:00 Importing Media from Critical Commons 5 Bringing media from Critical Commons into your Scalar book. plain 2015-05-28T19:45:57-07:00

  Critical Commons is a kind of "YouTube for scholars," a public media archive and fair use advocacy network that supports "the transformative reuse of media in scholarly and creative contexts." Critical Commons supports video, images, and audio files, and you can add your own media to it--for more information, visit the Critical Commons site.

  To import media from Critical Commons, click the import icon on your Scalar header bar, scroll down to "Affiliated Archives" and select "Critical Commons". The Critical Commons Importer will appear, with an option to perform a search of the archive. Note that it's best to wait at least a half an hour before trying to import media that was recently added to Critical Commons, to allow the media to be processed properly.

  Once search results are returned, you can preview individual files by clicking their "Preview" links on the right, or select one or more media files to import by clicking their associated checkboxes. Then, clicking the "Import selected media" button at the bottom will bring the media's metadata into Scalar.

• 1 2014-10-01T16:38:31-07:00 Importing Media from the Internet Archive 4 Bringing Internet Archive media into your Scalar book. plain 2015-05-28T21:44:02-07:00

  The Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library with the stated mission: "universal access to all knowledge." It offers permanent storage and access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, music, moving images, and books. The Internet Archive was founded by Brewster Kahle in 1996.

  To import media from the Internet Archive, click the import icon on your Scalar header bar, scroll down to "Affiliated Archives" and select "Internet Archive". The Internet Archive Importer will appear, with an option to perform a search of the archive. Note that it's best to wait at least a half an hour before trying to import media that was recently added to Internet Archive, to allow the media to be processed properly.

  Once search results are returned, you can preview individual files by clicking their "Preview" links on the right, or select one or more media files to import by clicking their associated checkboxes. Then, clicking the "Import selected media" button at the bottom will bring the media's metadata into Scalar.

• 1 2014-10-01T16:38:31-07:00 Importing Media from Shoah Foundation VHA Online 4 Bringing open access Shoah Foundation VHA Online media into your Scalar book. plain 2015-05-28T21:45:12-07:00

  The USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive is a collection of nearly 52,000 testimonies of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses maintained by the University of Southern California's Shoah Foundation, established in 1994 by Steven Spielberg. The VHA Online is a collection of 1000+ video testimonies which the archive has made available to the general public, and this importer allows access to those clips. To import materials from the larger archive, you must be located at at partner site and use Scalar's Shoah Foundation VHA (partner site) feature.

  To import media from the Shoah Foundation VHA Online, click the import icon on your Scalar header bar, scroll down to "Affiliated Archives" and select "Shoah Foundation VHA Online". The Shoah Foundation VHA Online Importer will appear, with an option to perform a search of the archive. Note that you must already have the XML feed URL for a collection you've previously assembled at VHA Online in order to import those videos into Scalar. You can get this URL by clicking the "XML for Scalar" option in VHA Online.

  Once search results are returned, you can preview individual files by clicking their "Preview" links on the right, or select one or more videos to import by clicking their associated checkboxes. Then, clicking the "Import selected media" button at the bottom will bring the media's metadata into Scalar.