A friend of a friend asked this morning:
Hmmm trying to upload a CC0 public domain presentation from #OKFest14 by @punkish and @SlideShare don’t have public domain license option :(
— Jenny Molloy (@jenny_molloy) July 22, 2014
I suggested Wikimedia Commons, but it turns out she wanted something like Slideshare’s embedding. So here’s a test of how that works (timely, since soon Wikimanians will be uploading dozens of slide decks!)
This is what happens when you use the default Commons “Use this file on the web -> HTML/BBCode” option on a slide deck pdf:
Not the worst outcome – clicking gets you to a clickable deck. No controls inline in the embed, though. And importantly nothing to show that it is clickable :/
Compare with the same deck, uploaded to Slideshare:
Some work to be done if we want to encourage people to upload to Commons and share later.
Update: a commenter points me at viewer.js, which conveniently includes a wordpress plugin! The plugin is slightly busted (I had to move some files around to get it to work in my install) but here’s a demo:
Update2: bugs are fixed upstream and in an upcoming 0.5.2 release of the plugin. Hooray!
@jenny_molloy @punkish example of embedding here: http://t.co/k99Ayb6iBI
[moz] Luis Villa: Slide embedding from Commons http://t.co/MGdeD1U5W8
Luis Villa: Slide embedding from Commons http://t.co/dHlgKmE6SQ
Luis Villa: Slide embedding from Commons http://t.co/C8MSMA6DJ6
.@tieguy Thanks – very helpful! I will embed the image for now and maybe someone will look into this at/after #WikiMania !
Hi!
There’s an open source project called ViewerJS[1] that lets you self-host and embed PDFs and OpenDocument files, so you don’t have to use proprietary ‘cloud’ platforms like Slideshare.
There’s no software ‘installation’ required other than putting the viewer HTML behind a server, because the rendering works client-side in the browser.
Do pop into #webodf if you’d like some pointers on how to do that. I work on it, so wouldn’t mind helping out. :)
[1]: http://viewerjs.org/
Aditya- that looks pretty awesome! I’ve added it above, but have some bugs with the plugin – how can I report bugs?
You can report bugs here: https://github.com/kogmbh/ViewerJS/issues
This post encouraged me to open some bugs in wmf bugzilla to get this feature native.
thanks! “@tieguy: @jenny_molloy @punkish example of embedding here: http://t.co/1WzBJrUEZm”
Slide embedding online with #openculture content http://t.co/6H5tmApFSH cc @tieguy
Thanks so much Luis! Presentation is now on Wikimedia Commons and embedded on WP as per the first solution (http://science.okfn.org/okfest14-open-science-round-up/).
I’ll ask our sysadmin to install the viewer.js and try that in due course!
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