Metavid 2.0

May 6th, 2007

While blog activity has been light the past few weeks, rest assured there has been good deal of svn activity I thought I would quickly share what I have been up to lately, and the targeted feature set for what we can call metavid 2.0

Metavid 2.0 is basically a complete code refactoring and extension of metavids feature set into the mediaWiki framework. (the software that runs every ones favorite encyclopedia). For a more details, read the rest of this blog entry and the targeted feature set on Metavid 2.0 wiki page

Beyond improved usability, scalability, accessibility and content/browser neutrality this rewrite aims to integrate metavid components with mediaWiki & the semantic mediWiki extension. The semantic wiki integration in particular will open up metadata queries to a more human readable format and un-bounded them from exiting indexed relations. Adding to Erik’s post about the future of wikipedia articles we can explain these features as extending the concepts of semantic data feeds on articles to video.

Metavid can already take a custom advanced search using our pre-defined indexed values mainly who said what when, and then use that as a video feed for democracy player or your ipod… But with the new system these advanced searches could be based on custom semantic data. ie a user could request a video sequence representing anytime anyone mentions word X that has received contributions more than Y from company Z. Or any variation there of. These realtime feeds will be the basic building blocks for open source news broadcasts that integrate rich video temporal metadata with up to the minute video broadcasts. Watch this space for more updates as its developed.

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