Since January 2008, the Wikimedia Foundation has worked together with Kaltura to bring the ability to collaboratively edit video sequences to Wikipedia, based on open standards.

We will show how these technological approaches enable us to go beyond what is possible in contemporary proprietary web video frameworks. Building on the technological foundations laid by the Annodex and Xiph Foundation as well as open web standards implemented through browsers like Mozilla Firefox, we can treat video on the web in much the same way we treat and transform text. We will present the current state of these technological developments and contextualize them in Wikimedia's long term approach to open collaboration around rich media.

speaker: Michael Dale — Lead Developer of Video Efforts, Wikimedia Foundation (in collaboration with Kaltura)
speaker: Shay David — Co-founder and VP of Business and Community Development, Kaltura and fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project
speaker: Erik Moeller — Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation

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