Streaming audio or video

videodesk
Hi, Zoteroites:

RE: Streaming media. I'm doing research where streaming audio and video are important to cite. What does Zotero like to call this media types? I see you have "podcast", TV broadcast" and "video recording" and "audio recording" available as categories, but streams are usually different from these file types, aren't they?

Just wondering, since I'd rather not reclassify everything later on.

Best,

Gary Greenberg
Dayton, OH
  • erazlogo
    edited December 5, 2007
    When you are choosing an item type, the provenance of the video/audio matters more than format (streaming or file)--you would cite PBS streaming audio as a radio broadcast for example, or a YouTube video as a video recording.
  • videodesk
    RE: Streaming files. So to follow that line of reasoning out a bit....does the provenance of the video or audio date back to its original (i.e, first) use?

    For example, practically any kind of file can be streamed on the Web, even a still picture. On the other hand, some streams are done live and only exist for the duration of the stream, such as a conference session.

    Best,

    Gary
  • bdarcus
    edited December 5, 2007
    I think personally that the focus should be more on the nature of the content rather than on the medium through which it is delivered. So the conference session or paper presentation within that ought to be primary, and the fact that it's available as an mp3 podcast or streaming video incidental.

    I'd like to see Zotero clean up its type logic along with a move to a more relational data model. But this stuff is difficult; in the real world we constantly conflate different kinds of objects.

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