Through 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. It can be searchable, copyable, editable, annotated, and embedded, not by one user but by many. These technological approaches enable us to go beyond what is possible in contemporary proprietary web video frameworks. When video is locked from interactivity behind a plug-in, it doesn’t receive the same benefits that have spurred massive growth in the web since the early days of text and images.

Since January 2008, the Wikimedia Foundation has worked together with Kaltura to bring collaboratively editable video sequences to Wikipedia, based on open standards. In 2010, Let’s Get Video on Wikipedia officially launched the campaign to bring totally free and open source video to the most popular general reference source on the net. Experimentation with open video has just begun, and implementation on a massive scale such as this makes a strong case for video content that realizes the power of collaboration.

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More info:
Let’s Get Video on Wikipedia
Wikimedia
Kaltura

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