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The Open Meta Archive, OMA, is a multimedial content management system on the basis of specific detailed information to different media like video, audio, image and text within the database system. The Open Meta Archive is combining these seperate medial modules on a meta level.
The main components of OMA are:
- descriptive database entries for the media files according to their specific attributes
- category system, based on a definable tree structure
- defining a location for the meta-gathered medial information in the tree structure
- the meta items can be copied, moved or linked within the tree
- media upload and descriptive database entries through web browser
- access relative to user (editor)
- automatised database entries through XML input
- structured document output with XML/HTML-based templates
- fulltext and keyword retrieval, as well as hierarchic navigation
- distribution of data to joint, but independently administrated OMA systems
Q: When did you start and what was your motivation?
A: OMA is based on the key elements of an audio-on-demand archive called "ORANG" (started 1995) and a video archive, called "OVA" (started 1997) - these systems did not support archiving of images and (con)textfiles - in lack of a system to contextualize and manage these different forms of content, OMA was developed in 1999.
Motivation: ...was to set up a collaborative, distributed system, as open as possible. The true fun actually was to see what will happen in this kind of open structure, and that is the crucial point. It' s an artwork.
Q: How many people are involved and how is the project organised?
A: Right now it is two freelancers as a core team, one in the software developement, one in the project coordination, of cause as there are many floating subjects being discussed and taken serious by the core team. Additional also the downloaders should be mentioned, but feedback here is rare.
Q: What is your target audience or market?
A: Our target audience is content powered institutions, associations and companies worldwide.
Q: Which functions and tools are supported
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Q: Which open source license is applied?
A: GNU
Q: Which development environment or programming languages are used?
A: Perl & vi & un*x
Q: Do you offer paid support?
A: negotiable
Q: What are your long term goals and strategies?
A: Challenging archiving structures. OMA is not the software, that is written in Perl, OMA wants to head for becoming a standart for data exchange between distributed network nodes for contextualizing and publishing the different forms of media. Fundraising for the research how work develops in archving content under the aspect of collective intelligence.
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