Research

iCommons and the Open Video Alliance asked Intelligent Television to prepare a white paper describing the legal, policy, business, and technical procedures we expect to be involved in bringing educational video from universities, libraries, museums, and archives into Wikipedia.

Wikipedia’s experience processing institutional uploads of image files—for example the 100,000-photograph collection from the German Federal Archives (http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,3851534,00.html)—have proven useful for education. How scalable are lessons from these experiences to moving image uploads? Instructions for providing educational video for other websites and harvesting efforts abound (see YouTube’s: http://docs.google.com/View?id=dc4j7df7_226g3sfp7cg or Home Movie Day’s: http://www.homemovieday.com/transfer.html).

This white paper focuses on policy and legal issues as well as on the technical issues involved in providing video for Wikipedia. Version 1.0 is now posted here: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bookshelf

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