[FOSS4G2016] Preserving FOSS4G2016 Conference Videos

till.adams at fossgis.de till.adams at fossgis.de
Thu Oct 8 04:38:15 PDT 2015


Peter,

I remember that we already talked about that. Thanks for bringing you 
in again.
In the moment we are in talk to WCCB about the video recording itself.

As soon as we know, what exactly we are going to do, I come back to you 
to keep that discussion alive.

so far, Till




Am 2015-10-08 13:31, schrieb 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
>
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