Citing a video hosed online of a presentation at a confrence

What is the common practice for the citation of a video of a presentation at conference? The video is hosted online.

I have seen the video cited as the following:

Silverman, L. (2011). Social Work of Museums. Online video. Bunker Ljubljana. Consulted October 14, 2014. Available http://vimeo.com/19213313

My objection to this citation is that, while it does cite video media, it ignores that the video is of a conference presentation!

Presentations are a distinct entity in Zotero as are Videos, and Websites!

My question both to Zotero devs, and to a broad general audience, is:
If we were to assume that (in this particular case) the collection of videos on a Vimeo channel is akin to a conference proceedings, but in a video format, should — or is it reasonable to — cite this kind of thing as part of a conference proceedings, even though there is no formal proceedings in book format?

The Zotero specific challenge with this is that with a presentation template (data input in Zotero) there does not seem to be a place to put information like the Channel name for video materials.

Examples use the APA 6th edn CSL file.

As video: pulled in with the chrome plugin using website provided data
Ljubljana, B. (2011). Lois H. Silverman - Social Work of Museums. Retrieved from https://vimeo.com/19213313

As a Conference Paper:
Silverman, L. H. (2010). Social Work of Museums. Online Conference Recordings via Vimeo Channel: Bunker Ljubljana. Presented at the Ready to Change? An Experimental Forum on Cultural and Social Innovation in Europe and in the Med Areal, Ljublijana 2-4 December 2010, Ljubljana, Slovina. Retrieved from https://vimeo.com/19213313

As a Presentation:
Silverman, L. H. (2010). Social Work of Museums. Presented at the Ready to Change? An Experimental Forum on Cultural and Social Innovation in Europe and in the Med Areal, Ljublijana 2-4 December 2010, Ljubljana, Slovina. Retrieved from https://vimeo.com/19213313


  • edited June 24, 2019
    The video hosted online is like a photocopy or uploaded PDF of a print article. Cite it as the URL, but otherwise cite the content as the content. Your last example is correct. Arguably the first is also, but not the most meaningful way to cite this (indeed, it is a video, and that video is not part of the conference per se). The type "conference paper" is intended for published articles in proceedings, not for presentations without published papers (the rare exception would be if this is intended somehow as "video proceedings", e.g., instead of papers, but that isn't what you described).
    (Of course this is my personal opinion, and some style guides might suggest something else, but I can't see how citing the actual presentation as a presentation is wrong. Unless the video has additional content, of course.)
  • Enter this as a Presentation and record the Access Date and URL in the respective fields.
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