Archive.org wins

Finally getting some idea of how to locate the content from Landscape-Portrait
in the public realm, and hopefully rendering it accessible via the use of RDF
Linked data markup.

Just has an email from Jeff at Archive.org. There is a way to batch  upload
data and metadata to the archive, what is better still is that there is a
static URi, so this content can be included within a structured publication
of Open linked data.

With this in mind I have stopped uploading content to WIkipedia, as I no
longer think it is the right place. My plan had been to upload new pages
for each of the postcodes featured in Landscape-Portrait but this has proved
an unsuccessful approach and extremely time consuming. Far better to
create my own linked data page for each postcode and feature the video
content their.

Entry deleted

I've submitted four articles to Wikipedia now - three have been either deleted or marked for deletion. Not sure I agree with Laurent Lanier when he calls Wikipedia 'faux authorative'. Seems very authoritarian even didactic to me.

Postcode as data object

Working through the tutorials for DBpedia its interesting that DBpedia page/resource for specific postcodes do not exist yet, for example N194EH. What needs to be done then is to link a new postcode page to a number of pages within Wikipedia, for example the page about Upper Holloway and the page about postcodes and north London postcode pages. I would then add the video portraits from Landscape-Portrait that relate specifically to postcode, say N194eh, and these would then be incorporated into the next DBpedia dump.

In the process of researching this I found some nice toys/tools:

http://www.visualdataweb.org/relfinder/relfinder.php

Browsers: http://dbpedia.org/snorql/?describe=http%3A//dbpedia.org/resource/Alexander_Marcus

Query Builder: http://factforge.net/sparql

Wikipedia Video Upload

Just finished uploading video from Landscape-Portrait to Wikipedia. It's a very time consuming process and prone to errors which force you to restart the process from scratch. It's taken my 2 hours to upload 18 video clips, including mark up etc. Kept getting errors for long file names, duplicate files names etc. There isn't (for newbie users like me) any batch upload facility which is annoying, anyways its done. The content I uploaded was my interview on the site so I made available within the public domain, where it does not have to be attributed and can be used in whatever manner. For other participants I'll probably use a sharealike attributable licence.

The next part of the project is to access this media through DBpedia using RDF Linked Data, now that might take a time.

Open Data

Just spent the whole day creating and submitting an entry for Wikipedia for Landscape-Portrait. For the lay user there is a fairly steep learning curve, I had all my images rejected because I attached the wrong licence to them ! - however I did find a open source
OGG video convertor which is good. We wait and see if it is accepted. My plan is to release soem of the video content in the public realm via Wikipedia Commons, which is then accessed by DBpedia and made availible.