Monthly Archives: May 2010

Digital Asset Management for Public Broadcasting: Interlude

Just a quick update on my progress developing a shareable prototype. The basic integration work is functional, I’ve ripped out the previously-mentioned Camel workflow components in favor of ruote (which is so much easier to wrap my mind around — … Continue reading

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Digital Asset Management for Public Broadcasting: Blacklight (Part 3 of ??)

In the previous parts, I wrote about two “back-office” open source applications (and tangentially discussed a few others) that are well-established in their communities and can support a wide variety of repository services. While it may be philosophically important that … Continue reading

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Digital Asset Management for Public Broadcasting: Solr (Part 2 of ??)

The Lucene-based Apache Solr is an incredible platform for building decent search experiences with — especially compared to the “more traditional” database-driven approach with many SQL JOINs that it becomes difficult to efficiently add search features like stemming, ASCII-folding, term … Continue reading

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Digital Asset Management for Public Broadcasting: Fedora Commons Repository (Part 1 of ??)

In my previous post, I provided a broad overview of the challenges and opportunities for developing an open source digital asset management system within the public broadcasting community, and described some fundamental technology that is already being developed and deployed … Continue reading

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Digital Asset Management for Public Broadcasting (Part 0 of ?)

Digital asset management is hard. Many people have solved many parts of the problem, but for a reasonably complex use-case, many of the existing solutions just aren’t there yet, especially within a vendor-driven world for a niche market within a … Continue reading

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Linked data and public broadcasting

Lately, I’ve been talking up linked data and the semantic web to some of my colleagues in US-based public broadcasting, which is heavily fragmented (by design) and operates on a number of levels (producers, distributers, and broadcasters at both local … Continue reading

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