Kaltura – The Israeli Angle in Getting Video on Wikipedia
Kaltura, the Israeli open-source video platform, is part of a big and complex project to enable royalty-free fully-open video on Wikipedia with its HTML5 media library. It’s now part of a campaign to get more videos on the huge encyclopedia site.
There’s a buzz about the campaign to get more videos on Wikipedia. For example, Mashable’s article talks about the new initiative of the Open Video Alliance. It also mentions Miro for supplying the technology for the open video format – Theora.
There’s another factor behind the Let’s Get Video on Wikipedia site: Kaltura. The Israeli company is already working with Wikimedia, the provider of the open-source Wiki platform, supplying the HTML5 Media Library.
Videos seen on Wikipedia are distributed by the Creative Commons BY-SA (or equivalent licence, and can be downloaded. The content is educational.
Another Israeli company, Metacafe, uses Wikimedia’s engine for allowing its users to edit the metadata that accompanies the movies.
Read more about Kaltura and Metacafe in The Wadi index.
Disclosure: I’ve worked for Metacafe in the past.
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Yohay Elam is a problogger, with Forex Crunch being his primary site. Yohay belongs to the founding generation of Israeli political group blog Black Labor, a writer in the The Networking Blog and maintains his personal bi-lingual blog. Before becoming a problogger, Yohay worked as a programmer in various Israeli startups such as Metacafe.
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2010-03-19
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