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Grass Gis, Star Trek And Old Video Tape, Peter Heinz Löwe, Janna Neumann, Margret Plank, Frauke Ziedorn, Robert Lozar, James Westervelt, Roger Inman
Grass Gis, Star Trek And Old Video Tape, Peter Heinz Löwe, Janna Neumann, Margret Plank, Frauke Ziedorn, Robert Lozar, James Westervelt, Roger Inman
Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) Conference Proceedings
This paper discusses the need for the preservation of audiovisual content in the OSGeo communities beyond the established software repositories. Audiovisual content related to OSGeo projects such as training videos can be preserved by multimedia archiving and retrieval services which are currently developed by the library community. This is demonstrated by the reference case of a newly discovered version of the GRASS GIS 1987 promotional video which is being included into the AV-portal of the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB). Access to the video will be provided upon the release of the web-based portal, allowing for extended …