Publications
Presentations
Patents

 

Publications

Presentations (selected)

  • Archives as Infrastructure. Intelligent Television’s Symposium at the Hewlett Foundation, November, 2007. 
  • Collaborative Approaches to Television Archiving. Video, Education, and Open Content, Columbia University, May, 2007.
  • Voluntary Associations: Community, Contribution and Rights. Cornell Microsoft International Symposium on Self-Organizing Online Communities, March, 2007
  • Consumer Generated Content in Community Management. Community 2.0 conference, March, 2007.
  • Web Logs, Privacy, and Data Surveillance. Data Surveillance and Privacy Protection Workshop, Center for Research on Computation and Society, Harvard University, June, 2006.
  • Google Print. Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference, Washington, DC, May 2006.
  • Net TV is not TV. Microsoft Research, March, 2006.

Patents

  • 6625734 Controlling and tracking access to disseminated information
  • 7096355 Dynamic encoding algorithms and inline message decryption

Projects
Boards
Conferences

Projects, Topics, and Activities

Most of my projects revolve around one of a number of themes:

  • Television Archiving and Internet Video. I’ve been blogging about developments in television archiving and Internet video since 2004, when the Kahle/Austin Foundation funded a position for me at UC Berkeley’s iSchool. For the last year, I’ve been working on a project at Thirteen, funded by the Library of Congress, called Preserving Digital Public Television.
  • Open Content. In 2005, I began an association with Intelligent Television, and have co-produced a series of conferences on open content, public media, educational video, and new models of cultural production held in Berkeley at the Hillside Club, MIT, WNET, and Columbia University.
  • Personal Archiving. Alfred de Grazia’s system for managing intellectual estates is a long term interest, and a focus for my current work at Fujitsu. ACM Interactions will be publishing a short piece on this co-authored with Elizabeth Churchill in early 2008.
  • Innovation. What is “responsibility in innovation?” Organized innovation is a power changing the world, and identifying and promoting responsible (and irresponsible) exercises of that power is the focus of the Bassetti Foundation.
  • Voluntary Associations, Gift Economies. For the last five years I have been working to make the Berkeley Hillside Club a local center for culture and the arts. You can check out my presentations on community based archiving and on collective action at the Microsoft International Symposium on Self-Organizing Online Communities at Cornell University in March, 2007, and the Community 2.0 conference.
  • Regions: Berkeley & Amsterdam. Berkeley is home; Amsterdam is a world center for STM publishing, and a good place to gain some perspective on events here in the U.S.

Board of directors / advisors memberships

I’m currently serving on a number of boards of advisors and boards of directors:

  • Question Copyright Promoting public understanding of the history and effects of copyright, and encouraging the development of alternatives to information monopolies.
  • Hillside Club Founded in the late 19th century to promote good design practices in the Berkeley hills, the Hillside Club today is a community-based membership organization.
  • Raqim Foundation Raqim Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, works to alleviate poverty in Afghanistan. Our aim is to help empower the most vulnerable people in Afghanistan by partnering with local and international NGO’s in creating impact projects; and by providing financial assistance, technical assistance and support to grass roots groups, as well as dedicated individuals that are directly involved in implementing community-based development and relief projects.
  • Support Intelligence Support Intelligence is a network security company located in San Francisco, California.

Conference organizing and workshops

The themes and organizations both involve organizing conferences and workshops.

Past Projects and Affiliations

Some of the other organizations I’ve been involved with include:

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Jeff Ubois is currently exploring new approaches to personal archiving for Fujitsu Labs of America in Sunnyvale, California, and to video archiving for Intelligent Television and Thirteen/WNET in New York. Prior to these associations, Jeff was a staff research associate at the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California, Berkeley, where he investigated barriers to accessing television archives. For the Internet Archive, Jeff has worked on managing orphan works, maintaining archival integrity, and managing the collection and retention of digital library usage data. Jeff has worked as a consultant to the Internet Archive, the Sunlight Foundation, OCLC, Cisco Systems, and the Economist Intelligence Unit. He has been published in First Monday, D-Lib, Release 1.0, Computerworld, Information Week, Messaging News, CFO, and the publications of Ferris Research, a San Francisco-based consultancy specializing in collaboration software.

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Practice Areas: Archives, Media, and Innovation

My primary interests are in archives, media, and innovation, and I’m consulting on these topics for a diverse group of persons and organizations, including: