Hi everyone,
I lead platform work
<https://github.com/creativecommons/platform-initiative> at Creative
Commons. As part of that work, we are exploring the potential of a standard
field in EXIF that could make attribution and license info more sticky
across the web. We are currently in the research phase -- talking to major
image hosting platforms (and platforms that read and ingest images) about
what kinds of image metadata they read and retain. Zhou and his engineering
team at Wikimedia directed me to this list as I am seeking feedback from
the Wikimedia community.
Ultimately, we want to make it easier for platforms to display provenance
and license info -- increase the likelihood that when a user lands on an
image, they know who created it and what license to use it under. For
example, images from Wikimedia Commons may get tweeted, but the image
metadata is not retained in tweets. How can we work with platforms to use
the same metadata standard so that info can be retained across them?
Since we are just in the research phase now, I welcome your thoughts on
Wikimedia Commons' and Wikipedia's own uses of image metadata. Specifically:
1. The most common image metadata standards we know about are EXIF and
XMP. Which does Wikimedia primarily read and retain? Are there others that
are more widely used?
2. Which standard does Wikimedia prefer? What would be easiest to
implement? for Wikimedia, but also for the platforms that Wikimedia
interfaces with. Aka, what are the pros and cons of each?
Lastly, welcome any general thoughts about the feasibility and need for
such a project.
Best,
Jane
Jane Park
@janedaily
Creative Commons | Los Angeles
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This may be of interest:
http://aomedia.org/press-release/alliance-to-deliver-next-generation-open-m…
Amazon, Cisco, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla, and Netflix are pooling
resources to work on hammering out a standard, royalty-free, next-gen open
video codec.
Cisco and Mozilla had already started working together, combining ideas
from Cisco's Thor codec and the Mozilla-sponsored Xiph's Daala codec, but
getting them together with Google's VPx team is a big happy occasion...
getting Intel and Microsoft on board means probably hardware support on
x86_64 chips and support in Windows and MS Edge, while Amazon and Netflix
pump a lot of video volume out both to browsers and devices, so should help
push adoption by ARM SoC makers.
In other words, AWESOME SAUCE!
The only missing major player looks to be Apple... so we'll see if they
eventually join on or if they double down on HEVC and we keep having to
play JavaScript tricks. :P
I'm subscribing to their mailing list for updates; it may be worth looking
into if we can partner in or at least follow along and support stuff on our
end.
-- brion
Thanks to Giuseppe in ops & a bunch of other folks who have helped out,
we've got an updated server configuration for the 'video scalers' that
generate media transcodes, supporting VP9 video and Opus audio.
Initially we have one server updated and in production, and the rest should
follow by tomorrow. (Updated servers are also in place on the beta cluster.)
This should make it possible for WebM files using VP9 video and/or Opus
audio to work as fully first-class citizens in TimedMediaHandler,
generating medium- and low-resolution transcodes in Ogg and WebM VP8.
It should also fix Ogg audio files using the Opus codec to work
consistently.
Support for generating VP9 transcodes as well is in the code and just needs
to be switched on -- I'll tweak that configuration once we've got the rest
of the servers upgraded and have more capacity for batch runs.
(I've got a client-side bot which I'll start once that's ready, to force
all the files to generate over time.)
-- brion
Hello,
Wikimédia France is working on the next Wiki Loves Africa contest, and in
this context, we published this graphic :
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2014_-_cameras_us…
These are the cameras used to take the pictures uploaded for the event last
year.
A person from the Africa Centre asked us if we have the same kind of
information about the devices that are used to import the pictures.
Is it possible for the WMF to have the same kind of data for all African
countries (or the whole continent)?
Best regards,
Sylvain.
--
*Sylvain Boissel*
ADMINISTRATEUR SYSTÈME ET RÉSEAUX
*WIKIMÉDIA FRANCE*
*Tél +33 1 42 36 97 72*
*www.wikimedia.fr <http://www.wikimedia.fr/>*
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<http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/691082430#map=19/48.86814/2.34683>
*Imaginez un monde où chaque personne sur la planète aurait librement accès
à la totalité du savoir humain. C'est notre engagement. Aidez Wikimedia
France à en faire une réalité <https://dons.wikimedia.fr>.*
The Seventh International Conference on the Applications of Digital
Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2016)
National Taipei University, Taipei
Taiwan
(March 29-31, 2016)
Proceedings will be published in IOS Press series (Frontiers in
Artificial Intelligence and Applications (FAIA)
The Seventh International Conference on the Applications of Digital
Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2016) is a forum for
scientists, engineers, and practitioners to present their latest
research results, ideas, developments and applications in the areas of
Computer Communications, Communication networks, Communication
Software Communication Technologies and Applications, and other
related themes.
This conference (ICADIWT Edition VI) will include presentations of
contributed papers and state-of-the-art lectures by invited keynote
speakers.
This conference welcomes papers address on, but not limited to, the
following research topics:
Internet Communication
Internet Technologies
Web Applications
Internet Software
Data Access and Transmission
Digital Communication Software
Digital Networks
Web Communication Interfaces
Internet Content Processing
Internet of Things
Internet of Everything
Data Communication
Databases and applications
Web Systems Engineering Design
Intelligent Agent systems
Semantic Web Studies
Adaptive Web applications and personalization
Navigation and hypermedia
Digital signal processing
Communication and control systems and networks
Hardware and software solutions
Innovative eHealth, Applications and Products
Medical Image Analysis and Biomedical Visualization
Computer-Aided Diagnosis
Telemedicine, Telehealth and Remote Monitoring
Human factor
Software reliability
Computational Intelligence
Data mining and Knowledge discovery
Education, e-learning
Proceedings:
The accepted full papers will be published in the IOS series
(Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (FAIA))and
submitted for inclusion in many indexes. Accepted full papers will be
submitted for indexing to multiple abstract and indexing partners. The
papers will be indexed in many databases as given at
http://www.frontiersinai.com/?q=indexing (papers in EI will be indexed
as Journal Article)
All the accepted papers will be published in Scopus and or SCI indexed
journals
Journal of Computer and System Sciences/ (ISI/Scopus)
Journal of Digital Information Management (Scopus/EI)
International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (Scopus
and EI Indexed)
Decision Analytics
International Journal of Big Data Intelligence
International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences (Scopus/EI)
International Journal of Management and Decision Making (Scopus/EI)
International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences
International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems (Scopus/EI)
Important Dates
Submission of papers January 01, 2016
Camera ready February 28, 2016
Registration February 28, 2016
Conference Dates March 29-31, 2016
Honorary Chair
Dalton Lin, National Taipei University, Taiwan
Jang-Ping Sheu, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Vincenzo Piuri, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
General Chairs
Yao-Liang Chung, National Taipei University, Taiwan
Jolanta Mizera-Pietraszko, Opole University, Poland
General Co-Chair
Tong-Ying Juang, National Taipei University, Taiwan
Advisory Chair
Rong-Lin Shen, National Taipei University, Taiwan
Nen-Fu Huang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Tsern-Huei Lee, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Program Chairs
Simon Fong, University of Macau, Macau
Jung-Shyr Wu, National Central University, Taiwan
Tsung-Nan Lin, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Program Co-Chairs
Adrian Florea, University "Lucian Blaga" of Sibiu, Romania
Chih-Lin Hu, National Central University, Taiwan
submissions at http://www.socio.org.uk/icadiwt/paper-submission/
Email: icadiwt(a)socio.org.uk
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The Seventh International Conference on the Applications of Digital
Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2016)
Macau Satellite Session
April 2-3, 2016
University of Macau, Macau
Proceedings will be published in IOS Press series (Frontiers in
Artificial Intelligence and Applications) (FAIA)
The Seventh International Conference on the Applications of Digital
Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2016) is a forum for
scientists, engineers, and practitioners to present their latest
research results, ideas, developments and applications in the areas of
Computer Communications, Communication networks, Communication
Software Communication Technologies and Applications, and other
related themes.
This conference (ICADIWT Edition VI) will include presentations of
contributed papers and state-of-the-art lectures by invited keynote
speakers.
This conference welcomes papers address on, but not limited to, the
following research topics:
Internet Communication
Internet Technologies
Web Applications
Internet Software
Data Access and Transmission
Digital Communication Software
Digital Networks
Web Communication Interfaces
Internet Content Processing
Internet of Things
Internet of Everything
Data Communication
Databases and applications
Web Systems Engineering Design
Intelligent Agent systems
Semantic Web Studies
Adaptive Web applications and personalization
Navigation and hypermedia
Digital signal processing
Communication and control systems and networks
Hardware and software solutions
Innovative eHealth, Applications and Products
Medical Image Analysis and Biomedical Visualization
Computer-Aided Diagnosis
Telemedicine, Telehealth and Remote Monitoring
Human factor
Software reliability
Computational Intelligence
Data mining and Knowledge discovery
Education, e-learning
Proceedings:
The accepted full papers will be published in the IOS series
(Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
(FAIA))and submitted for inclusion in many indexes. Accepted full
papers will be submitted for indexing to multiple
abstract and indexing partners. The papers will be indexed in many
databases as given at http://www.frontiersinai.com/?
q=indexing (papers in EI will be indexed as Journal Article)
All the accepted papers will be published in Scopus and or SCI indexed
journals
Journal of Computer and System Sciences/ (ISI/Scopus)
Journal of Digital Information Management (Scopus/EI)
International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (Scopus
and EI Indexed)
Decision Analytics
International Journal of Big Data Intelligence
International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences (Scopus/EI)
International Journal of Management and Decision Making (Scopus/EI)
International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences
International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems (Scopus/EI)
Important Dates
Submission of papers January 01, 2016
Camera ready February 28, 2016
Registration February 28, 2016
Conference Dates March 29-31, 2016
Honorary Chair
Dalton Lin, National Taipei University, Taiwan
Jang-Ping Sheu, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Vincenzo Piuri, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
General Chairs
Yao-Liang Chung, National Taipei University, Taiwan
Jolanta Mizera-Pietraszko, Opole University, Poland
General Co-Chair
Tong-Ying Juang, National Taipei University, Taiwan
Advisory Chair
Rong-Lin Shen, National Taipei University, Taiwan
Nen-Fu Huang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Tsern-Huei Lee, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Program Chairs
Simon Fong, University of Macau, Macau
Jung-Shyr Wu, National Central University, Taiwan
Tsung-Nan Lin, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Program Co-Chairs
Adrian Florea, University "Lucian Blaga" of Sibiu, Romania
Chih-Lin Hu, National Central University, Taiwan
submissions at http://www.socio.org.uk/icadiwt/paper-submission/
Email: icadiwt(a)socio.org.uk
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