Archive:Media Assets Workgroup

This is a proposal for a workgroup and should not be relied upon in any way. It is conjunctive to the proposal for Fair Use Policy, Media.

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Overview

The Media Assets Workgroup is Citizendium's "Media and Permissions Department". Its mission is

To improve and safeguard Citizendium by serving its editors, authors, readers, media content-providers, and re-users. To be a resource for authors and editors in the development of Citizendium's corpus. To be a point of contact for content providers.

For the purposes of The Media Assets Workgroup, "media" is defined as all visual, audio, video, and template materials on all Citizendium pages.

Activities

Content and permissions assistance

While not in any way replacing the function of other contributors in obtaining their own media content, The Media Assets Workgroup shall function as Citizendium's "go to" place for contributors who seek assistance.

The Media Assets Workgroup can be enlisted to obtain:

• Media for articles
• Media released anew under open content licenses
• Media for use by permission

As well, the workgroup will:

• Seek to negotiate block permission on behalf of Citizendium with media content providers.
• Maintain an "image request system"
• Maintain a "permission request system"

An IMAP account or tagging account, media-assets@citizendium.org will facilitate these functions.

Media policy and help pages

Members of the workgroup will, in a non-exclusionary manner (any CZ contributor can still contribute), work together to author media policy and help pages.

• Resource pages of image sources
• Image request page
• Media help pages
• Template help pages

Templates

The workgroup will coordinate the creation and use of media licensing tags within Citizendium. This is to ensure all media is tagged in a standardized fashion.

Group communication

The workgroup shall maintain a mailing list for general announcements.

Organization

Workgroup Lead (exact title yet-to-be-determined)

Workgroup activities and initiatives will be overseen by the Media Assets Workgroup Lead.

Responsibilities include:

• Maintenance of pages and templates that fall within the purview of the Media Assets Workgroup.
  • Image request page
  • Media help pages
  • Media templates and related help pages

• Act as a point of contact with large-scale content providers
  • Take a leading role in negotiations for block permissions

• Oversee the workgroup mailing list and media help requests from Citizendium users

The Workgroup Lead will have access to the media-assets@citizendium.org account.

Assistants to the Lead (exact titles of both yet-to-be-determined)

The Workgroup Lead will deputize Citizendium members in good standing as assistants to help coordinate the responsibilities of the Lead.

Assistants will have access to the media-assets@citizendium.org account.

Other workgroup members

Other members of the Media Assets Workgroup will respond to requests from the larger Citizendium community to find appropriate media, to request that media be released anew under open content licenses, to determine authorship of media with questionable provenance, and to seek permissions for copyright restricted media.

Assistants may also be chosen to lead special projects.