FOSS for GIS video tutorials and screencasts

This is page is a try to create a central index of all available Video Tutorials and Screencasts about FOSS for GIS. It also describes how to publish videos at TIB-AV Portal.

OSGeo-related videos preserved at the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB)

The German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) ‒ Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology is a central specialised library, it is a national infrastructure facility for the provision of scientific information. TIB is actively collecting videos from past, current and upcoming OSGeo conferences and similar events.

FOSS4G

FOSSGIS

Others

All videos preserved by TIB receive a digital object identifier (DOI) to make them directly citable in scientific publications and wikis and blogs. Details on such video quotes

Where to publish your screencast

German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB)

FOSS4G cooperates with the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB). TIB is one of the world’s largest specialised libraries for science and technology. It is publicly funded and has no commercial interest. TIB provides a scientific open access video portal (AV-Portal), where recordings from OSGeo conferences (in English and German) can be stored, long term preserved and made citable using persistent digital object identifers (DOI). TIB provides this services free of charge for OSGeo. If you wish to publish your video in the AV Portal, you have different options to do so:

How does TIB get the videofiles?

1. Contcat TIB (KNM@tib.eu) and inform them that you would like to publish the videos from your conference

2. Make sure you have the permission form the speakers to publish the videos before

3. Sign a license document with TIB

4.1. Large data transmissions via an FTP server (prefered way): (to obtain the FTP access data, please contact KNM@tib.eu)

we have a user account FOSS4G (ask User:Astrid Emde for the access) to transfer the files easily to TIB

4.2. Single videos via the TIB AV-Portal upload form:

If you wish to upload a video, please register in the AV Portal and follow the instructions. The upload form helps * you to insert the metadata to describe the video.
Registration and upload steps:
- Register via the respective tab on the AV Portal.
- Log in by using your customer name and password.
- Use the tab "Upload" and fill out the upload form.
- Specify the publisher as „FOSS4G“ and title of series as „FOSS4G +year”

Requirements by TIB (if you do not use the upload form)

Create a directory for every video and metadata file. Save the video file in mp4 and the metadatafile in xml in the directory.
The name of the directory and the video file and the metadata file must be identical, so that they can be matched automatically.

For example:

folder with the name of the video file foss4g-2016-1215-mapproxy_in_practice-helle
- name of the video file: foss4g-2016-1215-mapproxy_in_practice-helle.mp4
- name of the XML-file: foss4g-2016-1215-mapproxy_in_practice-helle.xml
- name of additional documents like slides: foss4g-2016-1215-mapproxy_in_practice-helle.pdf

How to generate the metadata files

for every mp4 file we have to upload (on an ftp server) a metadata file
the metadata file has the same name as the mp4 file with ending xml
the xml-files can be generated by the schedule.jspn file from frab (http://frab.fossgis-konferenz.de/en/foss4g-2016/public/schedule.json)
Astrid (astrid_emde(at) osgeo.org) can give you a script to generate the file for each mp4 file
for example see: https://git.osgeo.org/gogs/astrid_emde/video.foss4g.org/src/master/foss4g2016/example

What licence to use

Example 1: For the international community we recommend:

Creative Commons BY 4.0 International

Example 2: If the video is published in Germany and/or addresses the German community we recommend:

Creative Commons BY 3.0 Germany

Contact persons

at TIB:

If you have any questions regarding the publication process, please contact:

Lars Gottschalk (Tel.: +49 511 762-14224 ; E-Mail: lars.gottschalk (at) tib.eu)
Tolga Karaarslan (Tel.: +49 511 762-14227 ; E-Mail: tolga.karaarslan (at) tib.eu)

If you have any general questions about cooperation with TIB, please contact: Bastian Drees

at OSGeo:

Some OSGeo members worked together with TIB already (Astrid Emde, Till Adams). You are welcome to ask for information.

For more information see AV-Portal Info.

Hosting Portals

There are specialized hosting services for tutorials:

Learn2Use (German)

Suggestions

What about distribution the videos with a bittorrent-style distribution? Maybe OSGeo could provide the infrastructure for this?

Screencasts and Video List

this part is dedicated to short movies showing technical usage of FOSS GIS applications. Less than 10 mins each, please.

please add you contribute at the bottom of the list respecting the table layout

title and link	author	license	duration	format	description
Mapping your Data	Chris Schmidt	not specified	4 min	flash movie	Using QGIS, Mapserver and Openlayers to easily set up a web mapping application. Large description
GeoServer Tutorials	Chris Holmes	not specified	many videos	flash movie	List of all official GeoServer tutorials
GRASS 6 Voxel tutorials	Soeren Gebbert	not specified	many videos	flash movie	Using GRASS 6 to create 3D flow simulations etc.
FOSS GIS tutorials	Aaron Racicot	CC	many videos	flash movie	Tutorials from www.reprojected.com. Examples include building a new Linux GIS box and building QGIS using Python bindings...
FOSS4G2006 conference video memories	Various	not specified	several videos	quicktime movie	Lightning Talks, Keynotes, Sponsor talks, ...
Riflessioni sul tema(tismo)	Pibinko	not specified	3min	flash movie	GFOSS.it video
Sextante examples ( gvSIG)	Victor Ayala	CC	several videos	flash and avi	Using Sextante with gvSIG

Presentations and long Speaches

Long public presentations of FOSS GIS softwares

title and link	author	license	duration	format	description
TikiWiki Map	Franck Martin	not specified	many videos	flash movie	Tutorials on setting up the TikiWiki map environment
Chris Holmes, GeoServer presentation at Google TechTalks	Martin Weis	not specified	54 min	flash movie	Introduction to GeoServer, GeoSpatial Open Standards, GeoServer and Google Earth, Future, towards collaborative data
Mapserver WMS on Google Earth	Franck Martin	not specified	11 min	flash movie	Another video on using WMS from mapserver with Google Earth.
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GIS- and Geo-related Podcasts

Some suggestions from the hivemind (note these are not necessarily open source specific):

Directions Magazine http://www.directionsmag.com/ offers regular podcasts. They occasionally have open source related content by Adena Schutzberg (Directions staff) and others.

http://www.opengeodata.org/?cat=13

http://hobu.biz/category/podcast/ (note: links seem to be dead as of 15 Jan '08)

IT Conversations has a lot of good content, http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/index.html

How to do your screencast

please add your suggestions on how you did your screencast. Please try to use and suggest Free Software.