The DIADEMS project has started!

Telemeta is in the center of a new DIADEMS project sponsored by the french research agency ANR. It has started on january 2013 and will be effective during 3 years.

DIADEMS stands for: Description, Indexation, Accès aux Documents Ethnomusicologiques et Sonores (Description, Indexation, Access to Sound and Ethnomusicological Documents)

The academic laboratories envolved:

  • IRIT (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse)
  • LIMSI
  • LAM (IJLRDA)
  • CREM (LESC)
  • LABRI
  • MNHN
  • The corporate development partner:
  • Parisson

The persons envolved (non exhausive list):

  • Julien Pinquier
  • Jérôme Farinas
  • Maxime Le Coz
  • Aude JULIEN-DA-CRUZ-LIMA
  • Aurore MONOD
  • Boris Doval
  • Claude Barras
  • Emeline LECHAUX
  • Guillaume Pellerin
  • Hugues Genevois
  • Hélène Lachambre
  • Jean Lambert
  • Jean-Luc Rouas
  • Joséphine Simonnot
  • Leonidas Ioannidis
  • Marie CHOSSON
  • Marie-France Mifune
  • Martine Adda
  • Marwa Thlithi
  • Matthias Robine
  • Pascal Le Saec
  • Patrice Guyot
  • Pierre Hanna …
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Telemeta 1.4.4 is out !

Changes:

  • no new fancy functions
  • full using of static files which are now in static/ (htdocs/ is now deprecated)
  • IMPORTANT : upgrade TimeSide to 0.4.1, add 'timeside' to INSTALLED_APPS and do: ./manage.py collectstatic
  • add various buttons, various bugfixes
  • after upgrading, always do: ./manage.py migrate

Upgrade:

sudo pip install --upgrade telemeta

Please first read README.rst and INSTALL.rst to get all informations about the news. Apply new rules, dependencies, modules and settings from your old version to the new one.

or download (MD5: 47b8d7a6fa8340388ff72be58aaff59c)

Enjoy ;)

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Telemeta 1.4.3 has been released !

Changes:

  • add solr-thumbnail for automatic thumbnail handling of all related media images (please install)
  • add static media handling for solr and all various telemeta public files
  • fix some wrong user properties
  • SECURITY: you need to move your TELEMETA_EXPORT_CACHE_DIR from TELEMETA_CACHE_DIR cache (see example/sandbox_sqlite/settings.py)
  • EXPERIMENTAL: WebM and MP4 video handling for items, NO transcode but decode, add a nice video.js player
  • RECOMMEND: install django-extensions
  • add user revisions to user profile
  • move all edit buttons to main edit pages
  • new Format object and various enumerations
  • add last revision to item detail
  • various bugfixes
  • Fix a bug for related media title parsing

Upgrade:

sudo pip install --upgrade telemeta

or download (MD5: ceec77f9b5e637cf1e2cb9b9fad21183)

As usual, please first read README.rst and INSTALL.rst to get all informations …

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Telemeta 1.4 is out!

Changes:

  • add a Desk providing links to home and personal data
  • add Fonds, Corpus and their related media to the models and to the search engine
  • add some fancy drop down menus for main tabs
  • add video media handling (WebM formats only and with the last TimeSide master branch)
  • add playlist metadata editor
  • fix some sad bugs for YouTube related URLs and previews
  • cleanup admin page
  • add auto saving now for all searches !
  • add "My Searches" modules to user lists with search direct link
  • add RSS feeds for last changes of all users
  • better icon views
  • many bugfixes !

For developers and maintainers:

  • a new setting parameter: TELEMETA_DOWNLOAD_FORMATS = ('wav', 'mp3', 'webm') or whatever

  • before upgrading, you need to BACKUP and manually delete old wrong MediaCorpus? and MediaCorpusRelated? tables …

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Telemeta 1.3 has been released !

Changes:

  • add related media objects to collections and items (mime type detection, image preview, URL only capable, YouTube? URL detection and preview)
  • add "Sound" filters to collection lists and search results
  • add a scrollbar to marker lists
  • add dependencies to setup.py
  • various bugfixes
  • developers now use Git

Upgrade:

sudo pip install --upgrade telemeta

or download (MD5: 1ff126714ca9f38201b77efa06040671)

You can upgrade from 1.2 safely. Tell me if anything goes wrong.

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Telemeta 1.2 is out!

Changes:

  • fix OAI repository names, coverages and headers in according with TGE Adonis specs
  • replace home (index) playlist by 3 random nice embedded players (public items only)
  • add "Sound" filter to the item list for easier access to sound items
  • fix various bugs
  • fix the whole setup

Upgrade:

sudo pip install --upgrade telemeta

or download (MD5: 43cd98b492d39772a73164986ac0eefd)

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Partners

Sponsors and partners

  • CNRS : Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (French Natianal Research and Scientific Center)
  • MCC : Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (the french Ministry of the Culture and Communication)
  • ANR : Agence Nationale de la Recherche (French Research Agency)
  • UPMC : University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6, Sorbonne Universités, France)
  • CREM : Centre de Recherche en Ethnomusicologie (Ethnomusicology Research Center, Paris, France)
  • LAM : Equipe Lutherie, Acoustique et Musique de l'IJLRDA (Paris, France)
  • IJLRDA : Institut Jean le Rond d'Alembert (Paris, France)
  • Parisson : Open development agency for audio science and arts (Paris, France)
  • MNHN : Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle (National Museum of Biology, Paris, France)
  • U-Paris10 : University Paris 10 Ouest Nanterre (Nanterre, France)
  • MdH : Musée de l'Homme (Paris, France)
  • IRIT : Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse …
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Telemeta project now uses Git for development

Ten months ago, I started to look at other version control systems because I was fed up with the Subversion centralized model. It tested Git, Mercurial, Bazaar, etc.. Bazaar was the good choice because it allowed the dev teams to make branches easily in a decentralized environment, to push commits to the old subversion repository, to keep an easy syntax, etc...

Now there are few reasons to switch back to Git:

we want to checkout and test branches faster without managing dozens of repositories, we do not want to upload 500 ko of data for a 1 line commit, we want to push the generic Telemeta to GitHub. Sorry Bzr folks, I like your stuff, but Git is more appropriate now for this project.

Developers, please ​`update …

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