From Inside the Audio-Visual ArchiveJesse de Vos & Maarten Brinkerink

Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision

London, August 9, Wikimania 2014

Four Years of Contributing and Connecting to Wikipedia

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Video and Wikimedia?We are just scratching the surface!

SOUND AND VISION & OPEN CONTENT

- From digitisation to making available- From providing end-user services to facilitation- ‘Open, unless’ policy for our own collections- Actively marking the public domain material- First attempts at negotiating allowing for reuse

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OPEN IMAGES

“Open Images is an open media platform that offers online access to audiovisual archive material to stimulate creative reuse.”

- Research started in 2009 (WMNL provided advise)

- Open on every level- Functions as an infrastructure for reuse

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IMPACT OF VIDEO ON WIKIPEDIA

2013- Number of items on Wikimedia Commons

- 1,600

- Number of articles on Wikipedia- 2,000

- Number of language versions- 70

- Number of views

-50,000,000!!!13-04-2023

NUMBERS IN PERSPECTIVE

- Length of entire S&V archive: 800,000h∼- Length of ‘our’ newsreel collection: 500h∼- Length of material in Open Images: 110h∼

- i.e.:- 22% of ‘our’ newsreel collection available

through Open Images,- which is 0.014% of our entire archive.

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AUDIOVISUAL CONTENT & WIKIMEDIA

- Video on Wikimedia/Wikipedia is not established (Andrew Lih, Peter B. Kaufman)

- Currently less than 50,000 videos on Commons- Sound and Vision has contributed ~2,200 videos

through Open Images (almost 5%)

- So video currently remains an area for Sound and Vision to make a significant contribution

- With our Wikimedia Coordinator we are experimenting with different strategies

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OVERVIEW OF ACTIVITIES

• Workshops• Editathon• Content donations• Improve visibility on Wikimedia platforms• Improve measurability of impact

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INDICATORS OF SUCCESS

• New articles• More views• Increase in re-use• Improved visibility• More traffic• Edits to metadata• Participants at events

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OVERVIEW OF RESULTS - quantitative

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Activity Result

Editathon 30 participants, 20 new articles

4 Workshops (Wikidata/Wikipedia) 40 participants

Contentdonations 500+ videos donated (2000+ will follow soon)

OVERVIEW OF RESULTS - qualitative

• Improved metadata• Better relationships with other GLAM

institutions and stakeholders• Improved technological infrastructure• Awareness within the institute• Etc.

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CONTENT STRATEGIES

• large-scale vs. small scale • related to existing Wikimedia project vs.

unrelated • Incidental batch vs. incremental • Specific theme vs. broad scope • categorized vs. uncategorized

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1. STRATEGIES

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Project Uploaded How? Stimulate re-use

Reused items

Total used

Views per item/per month

Sounds from the Netherlands

1.838 Soundfiles

batch (manually)

Yes (at 1 editathon)

346 (18%) 346 88

Sound and Vision Wiki

2.658 photo’s

incrementally (manually by community)

No 1048 (39%) 3.784 2.748

• By-product• Community-driven

• Unrelated to WM• ‘Large scale’

2. STRATEGIES – Open Images

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Project Uploaded How? Stimulate re-use

Reused items

Total used Views per item/per month

Open Images

1.585 videos

>2000 videos

incrementally (bot)

batch (GWToolset)

Hardly

?

920 (58%) 2.262 2.049

• Broad topic• Incrementally• No activities

• Unrelated to WM• ‘Large’ scale

2. STRATEGIES – Open Images

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3. STRATEGIES – Nature Footage

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Project Items How? Stimulate re-use

Reused items

Total used

Views per item/per month

Nature Footage

57 videos

530 videos

batch (manually)batch (GWToolset)

Yes (video selection)Yes (prizes)

285 (49%) 361 290

• Specific topic• Batch upload• No activities

• WikiLovesEarth• ‘Small’ scale

3. STRATEGIES – Nature Footage

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Within one week (!):• Latin bird names

added as categories• English bird names in

metadata• Almost half of the

items used in articles• 1 item used in 54

languages

3. STRATEGIES – Conclusions

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• Uploaduploadupload!• Notify the community• Stimulating re-use not always feasible• Something is better than nothing• Short-term success is more likely with

stimulating re-use.

(The future of) VIDEO ON WIKIPEDIA

“[Open video on Wikipedia] augurs a vision of teaching, learning, and creative and political discourse —one that reflects the full cycle of

human communication as it is transmitted today.” – Peter Kaufmann

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Questions?

Thank you!

jdvos@beeldengeluid.nl

mbrinkerink@beeldengeluid.nl

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