Thank you Wayne for clarifying this, Wayne. Appreciate Patricia From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Wayne Mackintosh Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2014 9:40 PM To: WikiEducator Subject: Re: [WikiEducator] WikiEducator - Connected media
Hi Michael, Embedding video within an OER international website is complex. Historically this has been a topical issue in the WikiEducator community. I've been quietly hoping that HTML5 will solve our challenges, particularly native support for playback of open file formats -- but I think I may need a little more patience. Our commitment to free cultural works approved licensing means that apart from open licensing, we have a commitment to provide access to editable and open formats of the source video files. Revise and Remix are core components of the OER definition. A general practice has emerged over the past few years with regards to embedding video, but ideally we need to provide clear guidelines. Perhaps now is a good time to commence a work group to progress these policy issues. So here are the issues: * The Kaltura extension is no longer supported - in the early day's Kaltura were responsive in keeping things operational in Mediawiki, but this no longer seems to be a priority. So we can no longer use Kaltura. * It is possible to upload videos to the Wikimedia Commons in free file formats and embed within WikiEducator which meets all our requirements for free cultural works approved licensing. This works well for videos of general interest, but not ideal for video material which is too specific, for example an video introduction for a WikiEducator course which is not hosted within the Wikimedia projects. I don't think it's ethical to use the free hosting services of the Wikimedia Foundation for initiatives which are out of scope with the Wikimedia family of projects. * While free file formats are our preferred solution, there is a difficult challenge - namely users whose freedoms have been compromised through no fault of their own. The practice where some employers lock down desktop machines restricting the users freedom to download the codecs to play free file format videos is sadly widespread. While respecting freedom of choice - we do not wish to deny any educator or learner from viewing video material. * Previously, the no-cost BlipTV service offered a valuable prototype solution. Users could upload free-file formats, tag videos with CC licenses, and BlipTV would automatically mirror a copy of the file on the Internet Archive. However, the support for providing copies on the Internet Archive discontinued, followed by BlipTV stopping their free hosting service. This highlights the risks for an OER community using "no-cost" corporate services. (In fact today I've been uploading replacements to legacy BlipTV hosted videos from the first meeting of the OERu. Unnecessary waste of productive time :-() * Now that YouTube provides for CC-BY licensing - that solves one historical challenge of why we have not supported the embedding of Youtube video. However, YouTube does not support the CC-BY-SA license which may be the preferred choice for pro-freedom WikiEducators. Furthermore, to the best of my knowledge, there is no reliable mechanism to restrict embedded advertisements. The WikiEducator community is committed to providing an advertising free website, and this has been a core value since our inception. * Vimeo has provided a useful prototype solution, particularly for OERu partners. Vimeo supports creative commons licenses, open file format video for download and an easy pathway for WikiEducators to embed video in the wiki. The challenge for OERu partners is that the terms of service of the no-cost version of Vimeo restricts commercial use. So for OERu partners who will be offering assessment for credit on a fee for service basis cannot use the no-cost Vimeo service. In the case of OERu courses, our partners have funded their own Pro-accounts on Vimeo to ensure that we do not breach the terms of service. * At a technical level, the OER Foundation could host video material on our servers (including server side conversion service for those who are unable to upload video in free file formats.) However, as a small non-profit Foundation -- we do not have the funding to cover these costs at this time. With this brief summary of some of the issues - -I would welcome a committed group of volunteers to progress policy guidelines and corresponding help resources regarding the embedding of rich media. Wayne On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Michael Verhaart <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi everyone (In particular Jim) Am looking for a definitive list of things I can embed into WikiEducator (with Instructions as to how this is achieved) e.g. vimeo, rss feeds, etc. It would be nice to have this on the WikiEducator Help page (http://wikieducator.org/Help:Contents ) I know the issue of embedding YouTube videos was addressed some years ago, but with YouTube offering creative commons content wondering if this should be re-discussed? Cheers Michael -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. 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