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
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PBCore and the Semantic Web
Recently I had a chance to discuss with Dave Rice, Dan Jacobson, and Chris Beer the potential role of PBCore in enabling content to flow in the “semantic web.” The topic has also come up in discussions around the development of PBCore 2.0. It seems like a good idea to open the topic for broader consideration.
The Semantic Web would mostly likely be implemented by Linked Data. Using URIs and RDF, “Linked Data is about using the Web to connect related data that wasn’t previously linked, or using the Web to lower the barriers to linking data currently linked using other methods.” Those other methods would include linking things together by hand, piece by piece, which webmasters of the world can tell you doesn’t exactly scale well.
So how does PBCore fit into linked data using URIs and RDF? I don’t have anything close to a complete answer, just ideas that came from the discussion. I would love some feedback to take this thing further.
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CPB today announces the launch of the PBCore 2.0 Development Project
(Washington, DC) - - The Corporation for Public Broadcasting today announced the launch of the PBCore 2.0 Development Project.
The PBCore 2.0 Development Project will expand the existing PBCore metadata standard to increase the ability, on one hand, of content producers and distributors using digital media to classify and describe public media content (audio and video) and, on the other, of audiences to find public media content on a variety of digital media and mobile platforms.
The PBCore 2.0 Development Project will also work to enhance the PBCore standard to ensure that it will be able to satisfy the demands of multiplatform digital content as well as an evolving World Wide Web. Since PBCore's development in 2005, it has become not only one of the most widely-used metadata standards in the world, but also the basis of other metadata standards. At the same time, in the last five years, the number of digital media applications that would benefit from PBCore has grown significantly. An updated PBCore will benefit not only public broadcasters, but all users of metadata standards based on PBCore.
PBCore 2.0 will be managed by WGBH, AudioVisual Preservation Solutions and Digital Dawn. More information on the PBCore 2.0 Development Project will be available at http://www.pbcore.org starting in mid-April. Please refer inquiries to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) of WGBH.
PBCore in Drupal Supports Customizing Elements End Users See
Don’t look now, but the PBCore module I added to Drupal.org is now #3 in results for pbcore on Google bumping pbcoreresources.org to #4. That module wasn’t intended to be the definitive PBCore module for Drupal, but a conversation started to help locate users and developers with similar needs. This approach of releasing modules that aren’t ready for users and developing in public has worked really well for the MERCI (Manage Equipment Reservations, Checkout and Inventory) and Creative Commons modules. I’m hoping to find additional Drupal users and developers interested in PBCore so I’m not writing code that only serves our needs… which is basically all the module does so far.
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