I found this very interesting film from 1937, that I strongly believe is free from copyright. It is 15 minutes and presents a Swedish newspaper, including several of its journalists, and a tour around the editorial and printing offices.
From this film, I made 5-10 second long clips that present each journalist, to illustrate many Wikipedia articles, and some 1-2 minute clips to present printing technology. I uploaded each clip separately, adding categories and descriptions in English and Swedish.
This takes a lot of time!
In addition, I created Timed Text subtitles for some of my clips, but these are of course not shown for the full film, since they are two different items. To get subtitles for the full film, I would have to copy the text and recompute all the time offsets.
Whole film, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Varje_dag_en_v%C3%A4rldsrevy.ogv
A clip with English text, explaining page layout, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ombrytning_Stockholms-Tidningen_1937....
The HTML 5 <video> tag has attributes for start and stop time, so shouldn't it be possible to just upload the whole film once and then specify these attributes in each article, e.g. [[File:myfilm.ogv|thumb|start=4:38|end=4:47|John Doe]]? Is this possible today? Is it used anywhere, so I can see an example?
This film comes from a new website, filmarkivet.se, which was launched just this month. It's a cooperation between the archives of the Swedish Film Institute and the multimedia department of the Swedish National Library. I happen to know the people in both places, so we should establish some formal cooperation as soon as the head of archives is back from the Berlin film festival.
On 02/14/2011 10:26 PM, Lars Aronsson wrote:
In addition, I created Timed Text subtitles for some of
While I was at it, I took a look at the 200+ something files in the TimedText: namespace and modified the {{closed cap}} template, so it adds categories for the most frequently used languages. This works so-so. If you add a new translation of subtitles, the film won't turn up in the new category, until you do a zero-edit of the film, where the template is used. Still, it was interesting to see a category of which films have Swedish subtitles.
I also created some categories for videos by language, and started to put silent videos in the "Category:Language-neutral videos".
Thank you for your interest and effort on wikimedia video :) Its a really nice set of historic clips you have added. We should think about how to better mobalize foulks to add these clips to varius languages. Maybe a "video ambassador" per language wiki to help point out added video collections to the various per wiki-content folks.
The HTML 5 <video> tag has attributes for start and stop time, so shouldn't it be possible to just upload the whole film once and then specify these attributes in each article, e.g. [[File:myfilm.ogv|thumb|start=4:38|end=4:47|John Doe]]? Is this possible today? Is it used anywhere, so I can see an example?
See bug: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26663 the last comment in that bug highlights some examples: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Mdale/TestTemporalUrls
+ theornamentalist who filed the original bug.
The feature was already deployed to the gadget. And I am also adding it to the TimedMediaHandler extension which support 'being on by default' and a bunch of other stuff too.. watch the wikivideo list for a preview in the near future.
Using one file instead of lots of chunks, makes life easier in that you have one transcript and one source video that can be segmented per embed context rather then lots of bits and pieces floating around.
If we use the feature as it exist right now through a template we can update to the new embed syntax once the extension is deployed and if a small wiki, some have turned on the video gadget by default, but of course its more ideal to get the extension reviewed and deployed.
This film comes from a new website, filmarkivet.se, which was launched just this month. It's a cooperation between the archives of the Swedish Film Institute and the multimedia department of the Swedish National Library. I happen to know the people in both places, so we should establish some formal cooperation as soon as the head of archives is back from the Berlin film festival.
Sounds great, keep us updated on how that goes and feel free to ping this list, our GLAM fellow, Liam Wyattr, and or me for support in realising productive cooperation :)
peace, --michael
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