Wikimania 2007 talk notes: “Metavid & MetaVidWiki†by Michael Dale
Basic idea: Video + wiki
Metavid:
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GPLv2 license
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Free database dump.
Currently seems focussed on US congress speeches.
Can drag and drop videos in a list of videos to make a play list.
Current Metavid limits:
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Very focussed on US congress (because funded by a foundation who particularly care about this).
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No way to collectively improve the meta data.
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Not browser neutral (prefers Firefox).
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Not very scalable.
Currently rewriting (got a grant / funding) to make MetaVidWiki, using:
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MediaWiki (so an open wiki architecture)
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Semantic MediaWiki (so proper machine-readable relationships between things).
Have 3 namespaces for wiki video:
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Metadata (e.g. who is speaking).
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time information (e.g. when speaker changes or starts a new chapter, etc.).
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editing sequences.
HTML5 will include a <video> tag based on Ogg Theora. Will have compatibility with this, or can fall back to plug-in methods for browsers that do not support HTML5.
Saw an interactive demo – looks pretty cool – has a video playback window, plus a list of coloured timeflow to show the splices between video segments, plus a bit where people can have and edit wikitext about each segment of the video. Can also drag-and-drop the segments to rearrange video.
Looking to go live with MetaVidWiki (with a reduced feature set) within a month or two.