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.
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.
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
- Media Assets Editor
Workgroup activities and initiatives will be overseen by the Media Assets Editor. This role is analogous to the position of Chief Area Editors in disciplinary workgroups.
Responsibilities include:
- Maintenance of pages and templates that fall within the purview of the workgroup's functions.
- 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 Media Assets Editor will have access to the media-assets@citizendium.org account.
- Assistant editors
The Media Assets Editor will have the to deputize one or more Citizendium members in good standing as assistant workgroup editors to help coordinate the responsibilities of the chief editor.
Assistant editors 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 copyrighted media.
Non-editors may also be chosen to lead special projects.