Collaborative Video for Wikipedia
Channel: Linux.conf.au 2009 -- Hobart, Australia
Date: 08/12/2014

Presenter(s): Michael Dale
URL: http://www.linux.org.au/conf/2009/programme/schedule/view_talk/91%3Fday=friday.html

This talk will discuss the technical underpinnings and challenges of large-scale community engagement with audio/visual media assets, temporal metadata and collaborative video editing in wikis. This discussion will focus on a few wiki-video enabled sites and technologies which the presenter has developed and or is collaborating in developing. The metavid archive project started in early 2006 at University of California at Santa Cruz, hosts thousands of hours of public domain house and senate footage in free ogg theora format. The archive is powered by MetaVidWiki a free extension to MediaWiki (the software which powers Wikipedia). Metavid builds on xiph foundations open codecs and containers, Annodex's (open tools and standards for annotating and indexing networked media), SemanticMediaWiki an extension for storing and querying structured metadata in wikis and adds interfaces to mediawiki for collaborative transcription authoring annotation, semantic tagging and rich media querying. Kaltura provides an open source platform for collaborative video sequencing. Recently the presenter has started working with wikipedia and kaltura to enable more rich media engagement on wikipedia and "scale up" some of metavids features. The present state of that collaboration will be presented.

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