WNET/Thirteen releases its implementation of a PBCore Cataloging Tool

Written by DaveRice on Friday, February 27, 2009

WNET/Thirteen hereby releases the software of its PBCore Repository Project under the GPLv3 license (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt).

The PBCore Record Repository is an online database tool built on Ruby on Rails, Sphinx search, and MYSQL that was created at WNET/Thirteen to facilitate the import, export, search, creation and modification of PBCore records according to the PBCore 1.2.1 standard (http://www.pbcore.org/PBCore/PBCoreXMLSchema.html).

For testing and evaluation a public installed version of the application can be found at http://pbcore.vermicel.li (for administrative testing log in as username=admin and password=secret).

This work employs PBCore. The PBCore (Public Broadcasting Metadata Dictionary) was created by the public broadcasting community in the United States of America for use by public broadcasters and others. Initial development funding for PBCore was provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The PBCore is built on the foundation of the Dublin Core (ISO 15836), an international standard for resource discovery (http://dublincore.org), and has been reviewed by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Usage Board. Copyright: 2005, Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Further technical documentation can be found here http://git.mlcastle.net/?p=pbcore.git;a=blob;f=doc/README_FOR_APP;hb=HEAD and a current snapshot of the source code here http://git.mlcastle.net/?p=pbcore.git;a=snapshot;h=HEAD;sf=tgz. This tool is under development and feedback is appreciated.

David Rice

Digital Media Archivist

WNET/Thirteen

Comments:

  • Jack Brighton said on 02/28 at 09:21 PM

    This is a really really really good thing!  Really.

    Congratulations on making such a major contribution to the PBCore community.  Some other great projects are in the works, and this tool will be a big help.

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