Protests Armenia 2015: Video Database – Hike in Electricity Rates

The collection "Protests Armenia 2015: Video Database" is part of a larger and ongoing collection of videos on protest events in the post-Soviet region. It contains a database describing 104 videos (mp4) of protests in Armenia in July 2015 (mainly Yerevan area) triggered by a hike in electricity rates. We compiled the material in March to May 2020. All data is processed in an MS Excel database with metadata. For this kind of collections on protest events we take into account all videos that 1) are event related AND show actions of this event, 2) are fully accessible, 3) we can find with our search words during a particular period. We strictly aim at a systematic and unbiased selection and organized precessing of protest-related videos. We identify particular event-related search words or phrases after intense research on the event. According to the snowball principle, we then start the search of videos and try to describe as much relevant content as possible. However, we cannot guarantee the completeness of protest videos on the particular event. We search the videos and include them into the collection until a particular degree of saturation has been reached. The videos have been posted mainly by the participants of the events. Therefore, the material is only an extract and biased by the perspective of the single creator. Due to data privacy regulations and copyright restrictions, we are only allowed to give access to the database of the collected video files including the hyperlinks with its metadata and not to the videos themselves. YouTube's user guidelines do not allow us to store copies of the video collection described above."2015年亚美尼亚抗议活动视频数据库（Protests Armenia 2015: Video Database）"是后苏联地区抗议活动大型持续性视频馆藏的组成部分。该数据库收录了2015年7月亚美尼亚（主要为埃里温地区）因电价上调引发的抗议活动相关的104个MP4格式视频并进行著录。本馆藏素材的收集工作于2020年3月至5月间完成，所有数据均通过含元数据的Microsoft Excel（MS Excel）数据库进行处理。 针对此类抗议活动馆藏，我们的筛选标准涵盖以下三类视频：1）与事件直接相关且呈现该事件行动的视频；2）完全可访问的视频；3）可在特定时段内通过检索关键词获取的视频。我们严格遵循系统化、无偏倚的原则，对抗议相关视频开展筛选与规范化处理。具体流程为：先针对目标事件开展深入调研，确定专属检索词或短语；随后依据滚雪球原则展开视频检索，并尽可能详尽地描述相关内容。不过，我们无法保证该事件相关抗议视频的收录完整性，检索与收录工作将持续至达到特定饱和程度为止。 本馆藏视频主要由抗议活动参与者上传，因此馆藏素材仅为事件片段，且会因单个创作者的视角产生偏倚。 受数据隐私法规与版权限制，我们仅可向用户开放收录视频的数据库（含带元数据的超链接），而非视频本身。此外，YouTube用户服务条款不允许我们存储上述视频馆藏的副本。