User:Daniel Mietchen/Talks/Archiving 2014/Reuse of multimedia files from PubMed Central on Wikimedia Commons

Abstract

Uploads by the Open Access Media Importer to Wikimedia Commons between July 2012 and March 2014

The Open Access Media Importer Bot is a script that crawls the Open Access subset of PubMed Central - a database for biomedical literature - in order to find video and audio files that are licensed compatibly with reuse on Wikimedia platforms. If it finds such materials, it uploads them to Wikimedia Commons, the media repository shared between all Wikipedias and their sister projects. The digital media collection created by the bot now has about 15,000 files and is curated by the volunteer community at Wikimedia Commons. In this talk, I will use the bot as an example to highlight the reusability of digital archives and collections, the importance of open licensing, metadata standards and opportunities for community involvement.

Links

• The bot's user page on Wikimedia Commons
• Signalling OA-ness through full-text import to Wikisource
• Inconsistent XML as a Barrier to Reuse of Open Access Content

Outlook

This image of Xanthichthys ringens is sourced from an open-access scholarly article licensed for re-use.
How can we make that reusability explicit when citing this source in Wikipedia articles?
For further details, see this Signpost op-ed.

Reference

Note the icons and links complementing the bibliographic information.