I've been surprised by the success of this 7 min animation on Dewey
codes, from the Finnish libraries (kirjastokaista.fi):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF342znnAsM
It's been on the front page of YouTube in Finland for several days now,
even as top 1 trending video. It reached 200k views and counting.
As far as I know, no "serious" video on Wikipedia or other Wikimedia
projects has reached such a virality. (Although I see a Stephen Colbert
and an alltime10s video with 1M views each.) Maybe we can learn
something from it?
The video is part of a series by this Tuomas Toivainen:
http://www.kirjastokaista.fi/kallen-ja-keijon-kirjastoluokat-animaatiot/https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuomas_Toivainen
Federico
Hi all,
We have worked together with Dutch public broadcaster VPRO in the open
publication of materials from the documentary series The Mind of the
Universe. It was a comprehensive project that covered the publication on
http://themindoftheuniverse.org/, where the material was transcribed (in
most casing using speech to text tools), was annotated (using annotation
software developed by Sound and Vision) and where the material can be
searched full text and downloaded. It was then uploaded to Wikimedia
Commons for use on the Wikimedia projects.
With support from the Wikimedia Foundation (a PEG grant) we were able to
write and publish a Practitioners' Statement in which we reflect on our
experiences. It can be found here
<http://publications.beeldengeluid.nl/pub/600/> and on-wiki here
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MotU-Public-Broadcasting-Comment-in…>
.
Engagement with the Wikimedia community in this particular case proved
challenging, the reasons for this are described in the paper. However,
seeing a public broadcaster embrace open publication so fully has been a
great learning experience and hopefully will be inspiring and informative
for many.
Feel free to forward and comment!
Best,
Jesse
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