Peter Loewe Videoquotes
OSGeo Spoken Word Demonstrator
Scope
This is a demonstration page showcasing the benefits of quoatable video excerpts ("video quotes") from OSGeo-related presentations
Why bother
A lot of communication within OSGeo happens during the annual conferences on national, regional or global level. Many of the conference presentations are recorded as professional video streams. Currently the majority of these videos is distributed via Youtube or similar Web 2.0 channels. Quoting videos on Youtube et al. can only be done using URLs which will eventually break when the content is moved or renamed. Besides, for how long will be Youtube available as a storage platform for OSGeo content ? Worse, it is not possible to quote a specific snippet from within a particular video in Youtube. So there is a lot of OSGeo content on Youtube, but bing watching is a prohibitive approach for most of us. There should be a better way.
Video quotes based on persistent identifiers
The video quotes shown below is based on Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) instead of URLs. DOI can be looked up by any webbrowser, as demonstrated here. While a DOI points to a specific video (as a scientific data set), Media Fragment Identifier tags (MFI) can be added to jump to a specific snippet of the overall video.
Background Info
Favorite Video-Quotes
Historic GIS (1987)
- William Shatner tells you where to stick your maps
- GRASS hardware costs in 1987
- GRASS installations in 1987
- Minicomputer hardware for GRASS GIS
- GRASS text interface - almost unchanged from 1987 till GRASS GIS 6
- 1980s equivalent of a thumbdrive?
Insights from FOSSGIS 2014 (Berlin)
- Open Source destroys business models ? (Arnulf Christl) german
- What is good Open Source ? (Arnulf Christl) german
- When does Open Source NOT make sense ? (Arnulf Christl) german
- Electronic Frontier Foundation Video
- Brandenburg 3D (german)
- Introduction to temporal modules in GRASS 7 by Markus Neteler (2014), in german