The document discusses using the TIB|AV Portal to provide long-term preservation and access to open source geospatial (OSGeo) conference videos through assigning digital object identifiers (DOIs). It notes the portal currently hosts over 100 hours of OSGeo video content and is actively collecting more. Assigning DOIs to videos in the portal allows for citation, quotation of video segments, and integration into the linked open data framework to enable new ways of mining and analyzing video content. The goal is to better credit video producers, provide improved search capabilities for consumers, and ensure the scientific value of these resources is preserved over time.

1. Peter Löwe, Angelina Kraft, Margret Plank, Britta Dreyer
Bonn, August 25 2016
FOSS4G
The TIB|AV Portal :
OSGeo conference videos
as a resource for scientific
research

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German National Library of Science and Technology
Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB)
• National library of Germany for
− engineering, technology, and the physical sciences
• Largest science and technology library globally
− over 9 Mio. items
− 180 Mio. Documents (TIB Portal)
− 125 km of shelving
− Infrastructure provider for the scientific work process
• Global customer base

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TIB-Strategy:
Move beyond text
Simulation
Scientific Films
3D Objects
Text
Research Data
Software

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Video is part of the Research Cycle
Example: gvSIG
video by Alvaro
Anguix,„published“
via
LinkedIn/Youtube
?

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Video in Geoinformatics:
Research and Industry
• Scientific-technical videos allow for Geoinformatics:
• monitoring of the state of the art,
• analysis of trend patterns and
• innovation, and also
• technology transfer to new fields.
• Part of data-driven science/ Open Access 3.0
• Effective and efficient access to and mining of such distributed
heterogenous content is required

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Motto of FOSS4G 2016: „Building bridges“
Memory
Organisations
Research,
Education,

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• Provision & retrieval of scientific content
• Full texts, document delivery, interlibrary loan
• Research and development, bibliometrics
• DOI service for referencing digital objects
• Long-term preservation of scientific media (including film)
Preservation of knowledge,
advocating reproducible science.

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Recap: Digital Object Identifiers (DOI)
„Dog tags for scientific information“
DOI, a “digital identifier of an object” : it identifies the
object itself and not the place where it is located.
Citation
by DOI
DOI 4
data

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www.datacite.org

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DataCite DOIs have been assigned to millions of research datasets
- making them public, citable, traceable.
Steps towards open science – some small, some bigger;
and some deserve a little bit more attention:
Like this! 
Gravitational waves, DOI, Open Science …
Source:
Benger, W: When black holes collide
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:When_Black_Holes_Collide.jpg
CC-BY 2.0
Dog tags for
- Articles / books
- Data
- Software
- Video

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DOI for scientific video
The amount of DOI-referenced video content is expected to rise significantly in the near future,
especially in the fields of geospatial data sets and scientific software.
Yearly growth of minted DataCite DOI for audiovisual content (shown in
dark blue column) and share of newly minted AV-DOI per year (light blue).
Source: Markus Neteler
http://de.slideshare.net/markusN/from-a-niche-to-a-global-user-community-open-source-
gis-and-osgeo

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ORCID is a nonproprietary alphanumeric code to uniquely
identify scientific and other academic authors and contributors.
ORCID organization: An open and independent registry as the de
facto standard for contributor identification in research and academic
publishing since 2012.
It provides a persistent identity for humans, similar to that created for
content-related entities on digital networks by digital object identifiers (DOIs).
ORCID: Open Researcher and Contributor ID
“Dog tags for people / reseachers”

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Critical Mass of Technology reached:
Let‘s build bridges
Code
Data
Video
DOI
http://datacite.labs.orcid-eu.org/
Benefits for OSGeo
communities:
• Video
• Software
• Data
• Documentation

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• A bilingual (English/German)
web-based portal for
audiovisual media
• Meets requirements of a data-
driven research library.
• Long term preservation
• Citation by video, subsection
still frames
• state-of-the-art multimedia
retrieval techniques
• semantic analysis
https://av.tib.eu

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Benefits for Producers and Consumers
Video Producers:
• No upload charge
• Quality check of content by TIB
• Legally watertight publishing (CC-BY)
• Indexing international standards;
• Metadata: Authorative + from content
analysis
• DOI
• Digital preservation
Video Consumers:
• Term search within
• authoritative metadata
• metadata from video
analysis
• Download / DVD ordering
• Embed Code for reuse
All conference videos will be
online soon in the AV|Portal

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DOI Resolving Mechanism for
“unbreakable Weblinks”
• Each film which is published in the TIB|AV Portal is assigned a DOI as a unique
persistent identifier:
• Web browsers can resolve DOI, being a Universal Resource Locator, similar to HTTP.
http://dx.doi.org/10.5446/12963
For long term availability, DOI are superior to HTTP-links as they can by design never
expire. A DOI identifies the object itself, not the place where it is located.
Will never expire

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Check out the 1987 GRASS Video:
http://dx.doi.org/10.5446/12963
„James T
Kirk“

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Testimonial from Marji Larson, USA-CERL on
a still existing movie prop
Image: Marji Larson, 2014
„For the
Grass team
Will Shatner“
• „Shatner autographed the
cover of the GRASS
Manual. It was hanging the
the GRASS studio for years.“
Shown in
the movie

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How to reference Marji – and give her credit ?
Marji
DOI Citation link

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Useful:
DOI enables quotation of video subsections
http://dx.doi.org/10.5446/12963#t=12:30,12:35
Marji
Shatner
Autograph
video quote of
5 seconds

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OSGeo Video Content - Status
Since 2015, OSGeo conference recordings have included
to the collection sphere of TIB in information sciences.
Currently, video content from selected national (FOSSGIS),
regional (FOSS4G-NA) and global (FOSS4G) conferences
is being actively collected.
The annual growth exceeds 100 hours of new content
relating to the OSGeo software projects and the OSGeo
scientific-technical communities.
This is seconded by retrospective acquisition of video
material dating from past conferences, going back until
2002 to preserve this content, ensuring both long term
availability and access.

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Access via the OSGeo Wiki
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS_for_GIS_video_tutorials_and_screencasts

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Motivation for video preservation:
First Conference Videos: 2002

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http://2009.foss4g.org/presentations/
Motivation for video preservation
FOSS4G 2009 Video storage expired

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http://2006.foss4g.org/internalPagec6ce.html?pageId=21&confId=1
Motivation for video preservation
FOSS4G 2006: Format rot

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Motivation for video preservation
Klump, et. al, Data Publication in the Open Access Initiative, Data Science
Journal, Vol. 5, 15 June 2006 nach Helly, Staudigel & Koppers, 2003, verändert.
Current approach of usage of
(commercial) Web2.0 for
video content:
•Fragile/volatile
•Ineffective searches
•Hardly citable
Scientific-technical
OSGeo content

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On the bright side:
Benefits by video reuse

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Benefits by video reuse for Science :
New scientific media enable new ways to
connect and receive credit
Positive Feedback
 Application by others (immediate reuse)
 Confirmation by others (QC)
 Sharing/citation by others (indirect reuse)
 Appreciation by the community (indirect reuse)
Alternative metrics

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Mining OSGeo advocates

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Mining OSGeo advocates

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What about Alvaro Anguix gvSIG videos?
-> Youtube channel

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What about Alvaro Anguix gvSIG videos?
-> Youtube channel
No scientific credit
by citation !
(NOT FAIR)

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The road ahead:
Public information mining via Linked Open Data (LOD)
„crowdsourced
mindmapping“:
Content assessment
by humans
Linked-Open-Data
Access
via RDF
DOI-access addressing
communities
Metadata access
for automated
information mining New (Big Meta Data !)
Web-GUI addressing
individual users
https://av.tib.eu/opendata

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Motivation 4 Video Metadata Mining:
„Brandenburg 3D“

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„Brandenburg 3D“
Mindmap Perspective
Innovative
Service/Added value
Geology
Emerging OGC
standards for 3D
Database
Multiple interesting topics !

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LOD: Access via Graph Databases / Triple Stores
https://www.blazegraph.com/
https://av.tib.eu/opendata

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LOD: Access via Protege 2000 (Ontology
Editor)
http://protege.stanford.edu/

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Bridge „hardware“ for scientific video established
Let‘s make the most out of it !
• Scientific-technical video has become part of the research cycle
• Video producers deserve adequate credit for their work
• Video consumers deserve state of the art search tools
• The TIB|AV-Portal has become the backend for DOI-enabled long
term preserved OSGeo video content.
• New: Linked Open Data deep content mining on video content.

39. Contact
Peter Löwe (ORCID: 0000-0003-2257-0517)
T +49 511 762-3428, peter.loewe@tib.eu
• You are awesome
• You do awesome stuff
• Your videos are awesome
– please preserve them !
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