Welcome to PBCore Resources
PBCore Resources is a place to collaborate and share resources related to PBCore, a metadata standard developed to exchange information about audio/video media objects. PBCore can also be used to exchange the media objects themselves.
This ain't the official PBCore website
For an official description of the PBCore metadata standard visit www.pbcore.org. This unofficial site is intended to move PBCore forward by the people using it.
Please contribute to PBCore evolution and development
Many of us are jumping into PBCore for cataloging and sharing information about A/V objects. We are finding it useful but imperfect, and clearly the PBCore standard needs further development. Change management has been administered by the PBCore Resource Group, members of which started this website. But everyone using PBCore in the wild could usefully drive the discussion. So please consider this a welcome to write something: questions, observations, projects...bring it.
Making PBCore End User Friendly
Two screencast were recently added to Blip.tv that show how the Open Media Project’s Drupal modules make PBCore easier for end users. Craig Sinclair from Amherst Community Media created a screencast that shows how to configure the PBCore module for Drupal to display customized elements in a hierarchy to users. I added another screencast that shows how to add PBCore to any content type with CCK and how to use some simple javascript to limit the number of options show to users.
Sites using the current beta of the module can now export a node as XML as well as dump of their site specific configurations making it easier to compare how organizations are implementing PBCore in practice.
The PBCore module for Drupal is still rough around the edges, but the structure is now there for anyone with even basic PHP skills to contribute.
Deadline for PBCore 2.0 change requests looms
July 25th if the official deadline for input on the next major revision of PBCore. A release of PBCore 2.0 in November, 2010 is expected to represent a major leap forward, based on lots of change requests and research among the user community, plus where projects like the American Archive need to go. This is our chance to make sure it’s going in the most useful direction, and solving the right problems.
You can see the full list of submitted change requests, and add your own, here:
By July 25th please!
Translation Advice
The PBCore Module for Drupal is now being used by several public access stations. Next month I’m helping the Open Channel in Växjö Sweden implement Open Media there. I’ve read karavan’s post about PBCore en Español, but that seemed to focus on translating the names of the schema elements. I’m going to need to translate the genres, ratings, and languages themselves.
PBCore.org Alpha site launched!
Head on over to PBCore.org, check out the face lift, and leave your feedback!
WGBH is in the process of re-designing PBCore.org and we’ve just launched the “alpha” site which includes:
- a new home page
- a change request form for PBCore 2.0
- a community blog
- a simplified site map