Making the Content More Searchable
We have a lot of rich media content available at this point - podcasts, videos, daily screencasts. However, it's not easily searchable in the aggregate. I'm putting together an application to make that all easier to find, but there's an initial problem that's slowing it down some: the sorry state of the meta data I need to make it happen :)
Right now that meta data is spread across blog posts, mp3, mp4, and other media files. I have to get all of that into a database before I can actually do the simple part - the application itself. The good news is, I now have the tools to do that. The bad news is, it still involves more manual steps than I'd like. Once I get there, I'll also have to make sure that all the new content gets tagged and archived properly, so that I don't need to do this again :)
So - stay tuned.
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[George] April 15, 2009 10:11:52.656
Why not let us readers/viewers tag stuff? You can always clean up later. Also, the most popular things would be the most likely to get tagged first.
Re: Making the Content More Searchable
[ James Robertson] April 15, 2009 11:03:39.661
Comment by James Robertson
I plan to allow that. The cleanup is basically done, and I'm starting to create the web app now. Any delays will be my fault :)
[] April 15, 2009 12:03:57.413
Great news. This will make the content more valuable for me.
[] April 16, 2009 4:54:34.121
I hope you are using Smalltalk to do all of this, yes?
Re: Making the Content More Searchable
[ James Robertson] April 16, 2009 6:24:42.422
Comment by James Robertson
We eat our own dog food here :)