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Legacy Media, Migration, Mechanical Captioning, & Migraines

[Text below drafted, but not published, early summer 2016, as I was trying, solo, to make a decision about whether or not to migrate Blackbird’s legacy media files to Kaltura, a video system adopted by VCU.  Ultimately, I decide not to use that platform for the legacy files and in the first pass at mending […]

Adding/Amending Facebook Metadata in a 25 Issue Archive

DOCUMENTATION OF PRACTICE Blackbird: on online journal of literature and the arts, did not, until volume eleven in 2012, routinely add the necessary meta data to direct the image and content of a shared link in Facebook. (This corresponding with the rise of Facebook and the journal’s own use of it to promote readership and educational outreach.) […]