Hello all, I'm doing some planning would be interested for any input on this issue.
One thing that the Cane River National Heritage Area is very interested in is using Arches as a way to store and catalogue their collection of oral histories and other interviews/recordings from around this area. One way I had envisioned this was uploading videos and audio files as Information Resources, similar to a pdf or photo. I figured that they would at the very least be downloadable by anyone viewing the database, and most browsers seem to play .mp3 files without needing to download them so if someone found an audio file in the database, the report for that entry would just have a link to the file itself. I've been looking at ExtJS and I haven't found there to be a good up-to-date extension that would support an embedded video in the report for a resource. So, I was thinking maybe all of the videos could be uploaded to YouTube instead, and then the Arches resource report for that video would have an embedded YouTube video (html iframe element). I think the workflow could be along these lines 1. upload the video to YouTube and copy the video ID from the YouTube watch link (e.g. vAOVRkSCWmg) 2. Create new Arches resource for the video, and store the video ID somewhere within the resource graph 3. construct the form for video Information Resources pull the video ID and construct the YouTube embed link. 4. Optionally, you could go back to the YouTube video and add description with some way of linking to the Arches resource report (maybe) This could be done with the .mp3 files as well, I suppose, but that would require some conversion and prior editing. There are some good upsides to this, like not having to store and use your own server for people streaming video. Also, people could find more videos on YouTube and then be referred to the Arches database that way. Anyway, any feedback on this strategy would be much appreciated. I haven't gotten my feet wet with ExtJS yet, so there may be some issues that would not make this possible... Thanks, Adam -- -- To post, send email to archesproject@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe, send email to archesproject+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more information, visit https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archesproject?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Arches Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to archesproject+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
