[Board] separate discussion on the value of video archiving

[Astrid Emde (OSGeo)]

Hello,

we talked about the big value of video streaming and archiving at the 
video meeting in December

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2017-12-23

See

FOSS4G ($30k): Discussion of video requests from Michael Turner
     is this reasonable?
     can we take this responsibility from LOC? Like with travel grants we 
could maintain knowlege/procedure across events...
     is this something the conference committee would be willing to do?
     please add to "foss4g cookbook"
     astird: would like to see videos, livestream included - how can we 
support?
     action: Astrid may look at setting up a technical team to be 
available to LOC
     support a technical committee to support video recording for 
Conference LOCs - Astrid POC
     discussion on supporting a long term active, michael is in favour of 
OSGeo supporting this.

One of my todos was to work on a OSGeo video team.

The Wiki page is already there
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Video_Committee

I am in contact with Vasile and would like to work on this for FOSS4G 
2019. I started discussing with Michael Terner and Guido Stein.

I also talked to TIB Bastian Drees, people from c3voc and Johan (about 
the FOSDEM solution)

But due to other issues I did not promote all this in public yet.

I just created a todo-ticket: 
https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/18

So everyone who would like to get involved is welcome. maybe we can talk 
about it at the next conferences.

Astrid


Am 20.06.2018 10:59 schrieb Peter Löwe:
> Jody, all,
> 
> just a few thoughts about the potential of video archiving in general
> and what TIB Hannover (german national library for science & tech,
> strategic OSGeo partner for video archiving) can enable the community
> to achieve.
> 
> Over the last years, OSGeo hast established workflows to record and
> archive conference presentations. A few minor glitches (-> loss of
> some vids following FOSS4G Portland ) made clear that it makes sense
> to work with a partner who's professional about video archiving.
> That's where TIB comes in. As a national infrastructure they have a
> clear mandate (and budget!) to collect geoinformatics-related content,
> currently in English and German.
> 
> I want to emphasize that TIB does much more in the background than
> just providing a long term dumping place for OSGeo-related videos. For
> starters, each video receives a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), which
> serves as an *unbreakbale* web link, which allows to link to and cite
> the video for many years to come (e.g.:
> https://doi.org/10.5446/20420). This is very useful as it allows 1.)
> scientific citation: OSGeo videos can be cited by scientists just like
> they cite an article in a scientific journal (which is also done by a
> DOI) (just throw the DOI of a particular OSgeo video into the Datacite
> search engine and it will generate proper citations in a variety of
> established standards like Harvard, IEEE, BibTex, etc. eg:
> https://search.datacite.org/works?query=10.5446%2F20420 ), 2.) the
> capability to reference just sections from a lengthy video (like, when
> the presenting person says something important. eg:
> https://doi.org/10.5446/20420#t=21:59,22:03). 3.) For the OSGeo
> members who work in science (or are still stundents), this allows them
> to receive scientific merit for presentations, since all
> DOI-referenced material becomes part of the scientific track record
> (-> and can be linked to a particular person by an ORCID ID:
> https://orcid.org/ or DataCite (e.g.:
> https://search.datacite.org/works?query=Jody+garnett)).
> 
> So all this infrastructure is already in place and can be used to
> access, cite and reuse OSGeo-related video content.
> 
> FWIW, a next step for OSGeo could be to adopt DOI-links also to
> reference software, both on the scale of OSGeo projects, but also for
> individual functionalities, like a particular module within GRASS,
> GIS, etc. This would allow to give scientific merit (by citation) to
> the code devlopers and maintainers. This will require a different
> discussion.
> 
> When a conference video is uploaded to TIB, it is not published right
> away: TIB applies voice-to-text conversion and OCR to automatically
> create a lot of additonal metadata (in additon to
> publisher/conference, recording date, speaker, conference title,
> presentation title, etc.). The potential value of this feature remains
> to be explored by OSGeo together with TIB.
> 
> What I noticed at FOSS4G conferences is, that speakers really make an
> effort to cram as much interesting, funny and visionary content into
> their presentations, which usually does not reflect the abstract
> texts. Also, presentations touch on different levels of technology or
> different topics. It is not unusual to have a presentation which talks
> about advanced server sided OGC services, geological data volumes and
> an particular region of interest. With standard meta data it would be
> next to impossible search the trove of OSGeo videos for vague queries
> like "give me all videos which mention the geology of Berlin", "give
> me all videos which make references to the movie Wargames, Star Trek
> or Amy Winehouse songs" (all this can be found in the video archives
> !), etc. The advanced search capabilities by TIB will enable just
> that, but OSGeo needs to become an active sparring partner for TIB to
> push forward with these developing technologies and services. It would
> be interesting to consider a joint research programme / research
> project with them, but I am not sure how to wing this. Ideas, anyone ?
> 
> best,
> Peter
> 
> 
> 
> <peter.loewe at gmx.de>
> 
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