[alt-media-res] Fw: [transmission-discuss] finalising metadata standard - please

zoe zoe at esemplastic.net
Thu Mar 22 23:11:09 GMT 2007


below, an impatient mail i just sent out to tx network.
here, a link to And's latest blog, which is nice:
http://www.transmission.cc/node/86
and finally a reminder, we really ought to get back on to the schnews people
soon........
have a great trip pen!
zxx


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "zoe" <zoe at esemplastic.net>
To: <metadata at transmission.cc>; <discuss at transmission.cc>
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 11:01 PM
Subject: [transmission-discuss] finalising metadata standard - please


> hi everyone
>
> well
> as you know we have a  lovely draft transmission metadata standard to
enable
> cross-visibility between our projects, it can be viewed on our tip top
> transmission wiki. the highly valuable comments received on the draft
> standard can also be viewed there.
> http://wiki.transmission.cc/index.php/Metadata_Workspace
>
> now
> we have evolved to a situation where engagemedia are nearly ready to
> implement the standard in their plone package; the new drupal module also
> needs to set some standard metadata for example for the new forms for
> ifiwatch.tv. exequo can implement the standar across the projects they
host,
> any more for any more??
> clearly, the time is ripe for working implementation.
>
> but
> we have a small blockage. the feedback received to date has not been
> integrated into the proposal, so that our standard is not yet in as good a
> shape as our collective intelligence can - and should - still make it.
>
> so
> before we adopt it into plone and drupal CMS, we need someone/people with
> the right kind of brain to read through and incorporate the comments
> received so far, to host some discussions and to engage in some arguments
if
> necessary to find a constructive way between conflicting suggestions, and
> then say
>
> OK- HERE IT IS, NOW GO FOR IT!!
> LET US IMPLEMENT AND TEST IN PRACTICE!!!! GO FORTH AND MULTIPLY YOUR MEDIA
> : )
>
> it's clear that this is hard brain work, and it is right that people
should
> be paid for hard work. however, surely it is not right that the potential
of
> this network is sliding away, while we simply sit and wait for various
> funding bids trickle through their processes ... ?
> after all, who is in charge of the time table here?
> us, or the managers of capitalist surplus in the big foundations out
there?
>
> hmm.
> I'll end with a call
> for someone, part of the network or not, desperate to be paid or not,
> working alone or with others, to engage with the draft standard as soon as
> possible and make sure it is workable, implementable now, when it's
needed.
>
> maybe some of the projects that will use and benefit from the standard can
> club together to pay this person/people, maybe some dedicated funding come
> through somewhere soon and the person can be back paid later, maybe they
> will just get a whole lot of love - I'd certainly cook said person a slap
up
> meal and a half - so, who's up for it? anyone got a likely mate?
>
> lots of love and mild impatience
>
> zoe in london
>
> (your so called metadata working group co-ordinator)
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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> "The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit
the
> spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that
> spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That
gives
> people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time
the
> presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on
the
> range of the debate." Noam Chomsky
>
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