Open Media Project

We have a lot of resources and equipment here at channelAustin: a variety of microphones, light kits, cameras, 3 studios, and more. Just the checkout gear alone has added up to about 95 content types for MERCI. This includes both buckets and resources for singular items like the Conference Room, Main Studio, or Glide Cam. It has taken our staff a long time to clean up our data that's been housed in Facil. Before doing an import into MERCI, we wanted it to be in the best shape.

As part of the last phase of the Knight News Challenge grant I've been working to create a module to automate transfers to Archive.org of files available to Drupal. The development release is now ready, and we're continuing to test it here at Denver Open Media. My thanks go out to John Hauser at Access Humboldt, and the team at Archive.org who helped me navigate the S3-like interface and provided invaluable feedback in regards to handling metadata.

As a part of the Curriculum and Training Group, we have a work group exploring possible solutions for mapping Drupal production roles / job functions to competencies and to learning content. The objective may ultimately be to build a new module that will allow for the easy collection of topics and sub-topics across all curriculum and learning content, as well as a mechanism for managing and distributing such records. (Curriculum and Training Group: http://groups.drupal.org/curriculum-and-training)

I'm trying to put my outrage at Andy Carvin's SXSW session proposal to good use. Can you imagine going to Boston to talk about Putting the Public Back in Public Media and not inviting someone from WGBH to participate? Why does Andy think it's okay to go to the city with one of the oldest access stations serving the public NPR and PBS have been ignoring all these year and not ask someone from channelAustin to participate in a discussion like that? In addition to the Open Media session Stefan and I proposed, there are several public access related sessions that you should vote for...

channelAustin Open Media Project: Giving Community Control of Television
VCAM - Shooting Noobs: Teaching Video to the Video Illiterate
BAVC - Sexy Dirty Data: Making Your Metrics Matter
BAVC - Virtually Augmented 3.0 Reality: New Tools for Filmmakers

Craig posted a screencast for configuring the PBCore module. I've added an overview of the new structure and features of om_show.

I posted a list of screencasts I think other users could find helpful here...

http://groups.drupal.org/node/83784#comment-263014

I'm completing an evaluation of the two-year OMP Beta-Test for Knight.
I'd love any help reaching Lane or Kate, as I want to get some opinions from them and PetePO about the disturbing fact that half of the point-people designated to manage the OMP for the beta-test partners were let go (or quit) within a few months of the initial implementation.

I'd also very much like to hear from all the partners about any unanticipated challenges or benefits.

You can post them to comments below, or email me at Tony at Open Media Foundation Org.

Been discussing with Craig from Amherst, Daniel from Sweden, and Kevin from Denver, ways that help requests or questions could be captured for purposes of creating better documentation. Here is one idea that is pretty simple actually. We would have to set up and agree to some rules.

The first rule. If anyone has a help request or question about some aspect of Open Media Project implementation, whether on IRC, GDO, ichat, etc., that question or request needs to be routed to one central location.

Now that the Open Media Foundation has completed, or is about to complete, its obligations for the Knight Foundation grant to develop the Open Media Project, and now that we are at the same level on the playing field, with no one entity carrying any more weight, or responsibility, than any other, perhaps it is time that we, as co-equals, embrace a federation model, or some other egalitarian approach, for the creation of an association of developers, implementers, and end-users of the Open Media tools, with a guiding principal of openness and transparency in all communication and deliberations.

Hi,

We are finally in the process of moving our entire site to Drupal and gradually start using the OM tools. I was thinking of starting with just managing our metadata in Drupal, that is shows and what you call projects (we organize only be member, but I suppose we'd have to use one project for each member).

However, trying to install om_show lots of other modules are also required, most of which we wouldn't use at this stage. Are all those really required to manage show metadata? Particularly I'm wondering about these: