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Managing multimedia content and podcasts with Plone

von Nate Aune (Jazkarta Inc.)

Freitag, 01.06.2007, Saal 3: Berlin, 10:00-11:00 Uhr

Plone is a flexible open source content management system that is being used by Motorola, Nokia, NASA, Free Software Foundation and Ubuntu Linux. PloneMultimedia is a suite of add-on Plone components which make it easy to publish audio/video files and generate podcast feeds.

This talk will demonstrate some of the unique features of PloneMultimedia and discuss case studies where Plone is successfully being used in an artist community to share music and video files.

When a user uploads an audio/video file to the Plone-based website, the metadata (album, artist, producer, etc.) is automatically extracted from the file. Not only does this save the user from tedious data entry, but this metadata is also indexed using Plone's powerful search tool, so the content is readily searchable.

Plone has the concept of Smart Folders - saved searches that return a list of content based on criteria the site admin specifies. This makes it very easy for non-technical users to generate lists of multimedia content (i.e. all MP3s with genre 'jazz').

Using Plone's built-in workflow engine, the multimedia content can be submitted for review, and approved by a moderator. This ensures that inappropriate content can be rejected instead of being inadvertently published.

Plone also has many collaborative features which help to foster participation and online community. Users can submit their own multimedia content and comment, rate and tag other users' content.

Über den Autor Nate Aune:

With a formal education in computer science, Nate has always been intrigued with utilizing cutting edge technology to find solutions to everyday problems. He has been helping organizations with their IT needs since 1999 through his company Jazkarta Consulting, based in Boston, MA.

As founder of the Plone4Artists project and member of the Plone Foundation Board, Nate is very active in the Plone community. Nate also regularly gives talks at conferences and organizes developer sprints and bootcamps in Austria, San Francisco and Boston.