Pandora Knowledge base (Project J)

Questions

• Pandora/What are the data structures used in pandora?
• How to force re-upload of video files?
• What is the file structure?
• Where are the thumbnails generated?
• Is textual data associated with files or video items?
• What are the various things that can be applied to an Item (example; render timeline)
• Really, how to debug?
• How to use the API; dummy examples please !
• What is done on the client side (js)?
• fixing the issue of more than 6 files know how
• Changing the basic info of Items
• How flexable is the layers of info?
• To what objects are they connected?
• Show subtitles on the video!
• For example, if video file is not served, how to really hunt what is going on?

Wishlist

• Localization infrastructure
• lists of clips
• relationship to the originals if accessable
• Pad.ma Local files
• create a textual representaion of the clip in conjuction with the originals
• include annotations in the torrent
• Integration with Drupal's Media module as well as with Mediawiki
• A mechanism to separate the video curation process to two steps:
  1. remotely uploading a reduced version from a large file
  2. acquiring the original via an out-of-band method then integrating it into the datastore and linking it to the film's records (suggestion: identify the original by its hash)
• A mechanism to perform curation on one installation (like on a laptop, or a workshop) while travelling then integrate that into a master collection back home.
• As an implementation of arbitrary properties of an item: URL to obtain the original of a film, published somewhere on the Internet (like archive.org)
• ability to export metadata of an item in some standard format (suggested RDF)
• Introduce crawling start-points in the system where information about the whole collection (in RDF) can be crawled and viewed semantically
• Introduce some semantic querying service point
• Allow encoding from multiple machines
• Allow sparter parsing of pathes

ironing out installations

• ADEF Archive
• Mareekh
• Mosireen
• Mawred