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The university I work at wanted to make a video archive of performance art openly available on the web. Some of this can be 'challenging' (their preferred term)
by shellac 3y ago
The university I work at wanted to make a video archive of performance art openly available on the web. Some of this can be 'challenging' (their preferred term) so we wanted to ensure people didn't just stumble into it. On the other hand we didn't want any form of mediated access which is a barrier for potential users, and also a maintenance burden.
I remembered PICS and hoped something similar had stepped in since it seemed an ideal solution: we describe our content, users make a choice based on that metadata. However we found nothing.
(We ended up adding a ~7 second explanation / warning at the start of every access copy, which is ... ok)
- netsharc 3y agoI suppose this is brainstorming for a problem that's been solved, I wonder if the flags of how much a viewer can see can be user-modified and stored in a cookie, and a few seconds before the video starts the viewer will get a reminder of what their preferences are, and what the video's rating is. If the video is "more challenging" than the user's settings, then of course the video won't play. And if the user hadn't set anything, they can just click "Skip the configuration, show me the video".