Reading- Reflecting online buzz around BBC programmes: updateLast June I wrote a post on this blog about Shownar - a prototype which aimed to track and reflect online buzz around BBC TV and radio programmes. I stated that "If the prototype proves successful, we are hoping to integrate the functionality of Shownar into bbc.co.uk". Well, the prototype did prove successful and whilst it's taken a little lo […]Dan Taylor
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Category Archives: Repository
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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Fedora and Microservices
In this post, I want to discuss repository architecture philosophies, although I will focus primarily on Fedora and California Digital Library microservices, there are some generalizations one can pull out of this. It would also be interesting to pull in … Continue reading
A Fedora in a Pairtree
The California Digital Library (CDL) has released a number of exciting micro-services specifications for digital libraries. The Fedora repository from DuraSpace takes an opposite approach and has a monolithic applications comprised of a number of modules. With the modular approach, … Continue reading
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Fedora, Blacklight, and Ruby on Rails
I’ve been playing with Blacklight, a catalog interface built on solr, this weekend with fairly positive results. After some initial frustration trying to figure out the demo data, I switched gears and connected Blacklight to my own solr data source, … Continue reading
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