[FOSS4G2016] Preserving FOSS4G2016 Conference Videos

[PETER LOEWE]

Dear all,

sorry for picking up this topic with some delay:

Apart from the currently discussed Vimeo-based option, video-recordings 
from  OSGeo-releated conferences hosted  are already being collected by 
the German National Library for Science and Technology (TIB Hannover).

 From the perspective of Research Libraries like TIB, YouTube and Vimeo 
are no reliable repositories to ensure long term access to audiovisual 
information (over decades, including technology changes) . Because of 
this, TIB has launched an alternative video portal ("AV-Portal"), which 
meets the requirements for long term preservation & availability,  and 
scientific citation of the video content.

Conference videos from both FOSS4G and FOSSGIS-events are already being 
provided through the TIB AV-Portal. This service is free of charge as 
OSGeo-content is considered part of the global scientific-technological 
heritage.

Until now, the TIB librarians are busy harvesting OSGeo-related videos 
from YouTube/Vimeo, which involves a lot of  time consuming effort 
regarding contacting the video producers in retrospect and to deal with 
lincence details.

For FOSS4G2016, it would be perfectly fine to store the conference 
videos both on Vimeo (or Youtube) and also in parallel on the the TIB 
AV-Portal. Right now we have the opportunity to start a dialog about the 
video preservation with the TIB library during the conference 
preparation phase. This would allow to make the content available 
afterwards ASAP in the AV-Portal and to avoid loss of content as it 
happened for FOSS4G2014.

If necessary I'd gladly serve as the interface to the library community 
to suss out the details.

Best,
Peter

PS: Details about the AV-Portal as a service to OSGeo were described 
during FOSS4G-Europe:
http://de.slideshare.net/loewe/acquisition-of-audiovisual-scientific-technical-information-from-osgeo-a-work-in-progress-report-2015




>> On 2015-09-25 9:32 AM, Gert-Jan van der Weijden wrote:
>>> 2. And i saw some discussion (on discuss?) about a 200 dollar budget
>>> for
>>> a generic OSGeo-Vimeo (not YouTube) account, so I hope that will be
>>> arranged as well
>> Yes the OSGeo Conference Committee is looking at options for hosting
>> FOSS4G videos (there is a VimeoPro account that we will use in the
>> short term, maintained by the FOSS4G-Portland team / DarrellF). We
>> will hopefully renew that Pro account for one more year until the
>> conference committee decides on the best method for all FOSS4G videos.
> you might be not listing to that lists about FOSS4G in Bonn next year.
>
> In the german FOSSGIS community you gave sometime a hint / offered
> capabilities for FOSSGIS learning material. Could be your organisation a
> neutral place to keep the video?
>
> Thanks for a hint,
> Hans