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!
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