Reading- The review in a carImagine the following: A car full of Semantic Web Experts is on it’s way back from Graz. They hand around an iPhone to record some first impressions about the just ended 6th International Conference on Semantic Systems, I-SEMANTICS. So, the car was a Volvo, occupied by Thomas Schandl, Helmut Nagy, Tassilo Pellegrini and Andreas Blumauer. Andreas Blumauer: “I […]Semantic Web Company (Austria)
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Highlights from public television websites
When creating the comprehensive gallery of station website (and wrote about in my last post), I wanted to encourage a conversation about what makes a good public media websites (c.f. this XKCD comic about university websites). In this first analysis … Continue reading
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A gallery of public media organization websites
Last night’s topic for #pubmedia chat on twitter was station websites. Because I happen to have a list of public radio stations metadata (gathered from both NPR’s station finder API and the PTFP Public Radio Coverage 2004 report, supplemented with … Continue reading
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From a shared blog to a personal site..
To ease the transition from the previous incarnation of this blog (a shared blog) to a more focused, personal blog, I used the WordPress Import/Export feature to transfer all of my own posts into the new WordPress instance. In order … Continue reading
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Public Media Camp Boston
I have the great fortune to be involved in planning the Boston spin-off of Public Media Camp with a number of people from the Boston media community. It is an interesting process and has probably taught me more about media … Continue reading
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Digital Asset Management for Public Broadcasting: An Update
In the last month, I had some great help turning the digital asset management prototype into a grant proposal for the NEH Preservation and Access Research and Development program, focusing on the needs of moving image digital asset management using … Continue reading
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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
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
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
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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