[Board] Motion to create a youtube account FOSS4G

["Peter Löwe"]

Hello Board,

I would advise to use _both_ Youtube and the TIB portal to store OSGeo/FOSS4G-related videos as part of a larger OSGeo-strategy for audiovisual recordings .

Youtube(YT) allows for immediate availability upon upload. For people wanting to follow an ongoing FOSS4G conference on the web, this is the next best thing other than online streaming. YT is a commercial entity and we can not predict how their business model will change in the future. Also, AFAIK YT doesn't make any promises about long term archiving of hosted content (i.e: Availability over decades or even longer timespans).

This makes YT our "fast" video channel for quick dissemination, with a risk of being fickle in the long run.


The AV-Portal by TIB (German National Library for Science and Technology) has a much slower ingestion process for incoming videos, which can take weeks or longer.  They do a lot of behind-the-scenes preprocessing and analysis of the video content (voice-to-text recognition, OCR-to-text, etc.) which is used to make the content better discoverable in the long run by adding lots of metadata. Their infrastructure is funded by a public mandate (no commercial interest) and is designed to provide long term storage by library standards (including migration of "iron", video formats, etc.). Every video in the AV-Portal also gets a DOI (digital object identifier) assigned, which allows to cite it in scientific publication (this is much more reliable than URLs from YT -> hint: it would be good to use DOI-links in OSGeo-interal documentation than YT-URLs).

This makes the AV-Portal our "slow but steady" scientifc video archive.

Best,
Peter

<peter.loewe at gmx.de>