Nearly 100 hours of lectures, interviews, and courses from Columbia University will go up on Google Video, the Columbia University library system announced today.
Google gave Columbia a grant of $50,450 to create 54 hours of new content and to convert 38 hours of MPEG2 content for the Google Video site. The university's new media shop, Digital Knowledge Ventures, will do the work.
Much of the newly available video will be science-related, such as the Seminars on Sustainable Development, at Columbia's Earth Institute, and the university's Frontiers of Science courses.
It's not all science, however. Among other offerings will be lectures and interviews on the architecture of New York City from Andrew S. Dolkart, a Columbia professor of architecture who is a nationally known expert on the city's history and design. –Josh Fischman
