Managing Wordpress plugins with svn:externals

advertising-manager http://svn.wp-plugins.org/advertising-manager/trunk/
akismet http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/akismet/trunk/
amazon-showcase-wordpress-widget http://svn.wp-plugins.org/amazon-showcase-wordpress-widget/trunk/
google-analyticator http://svn.wp-plugins.org/google-analyticator/trunk/
google-sitemap-generator http://svn.wp-plugins.org/google-sitemap-generator/trunk/
google-syntax-highlighter http://svn.wp-plugins.org/google-syntax-highlighter/trunk/
latex http://svn.wp-plugins.org/latex/trunk/
smart-archives-reloaded http://svn.wp-plugins.org/smart-archives-reloaded/trunk/
stats http://svn.wp-plugins.org/stats/trunk/
wp-rdfa http://svn.wp-plugins.org/wp-rdfa/trunk/
xrds-simple http://svn.wp-plugins.org/xrds-simple/trunk/

Disseminating Broadcast Archives: Exposing WGBH Materials for Scholarly Use

The WGBH Media Library and Archives is currently prototyping an online archive of moving image content. Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the project seeks to serve scholars in their efforts to incorporate media into their research and communications activities. We are currently prototyping a Fedora-backed online archive incorporating search, browse, data visualization, and web services. We will present the open source infrastructure behind our web project which includes Fedora, Solr and a PHP front end. Our Fedora content model addresses the specific needs of a moving image archive, allowing for the expression of complex relationships between conceptual and instantiated assets. In addition, it allows us to express the myriad permutations and oddities occurring within broadcast asset relationships. We will share lessons learned and new challenges regarding the representation of archival moving image collections online, the unique cataloging and metadata needs of the online researcher, and barriers to the use of online archives by scholarly researchers. Finally, we will cover technical challenges involving storage and delivery of long form video content, rights management, and user authentication and sustainable business models.

Open Repositories ‘09, May 18-21

inbflat mixer

I’ve quickly hacked together a mixer-style interface (using jquery + the youtube chromeless player) for the inbflat youtube mashup media project. If I get really motivated, there are a couple of features that would be nice:

• Solo-mode
• Media scrub bar — I’m not sure what the appropriate interface would be for this
• Add/remove video clips
• Port this to the HTML5 canvas/audio system for fun

Getting mail server statistics into ganglia

There are a number of fine stand-alone mail statistics generating packages out there, most based on RRD. We, however, are happily using ganglia to aggregate and display statistics in a dashboard. Here’s the quick and dirty patch to take the simple mailgraph perl script and transform it into a gmetric data source:

--- mailgraph.pl        2007-08-29 09:06:01.000000000 +0000
+++ mailgraph-ganglia.pl        2009-05-09 17:21:52.000000000 +0000
@@ -871,15 +871,13 @@
        return 0 if $m < $this_minute;

        print "update $this_minute:$sum{sent}:$sum{received}:$sum{bounced}:$sum{rejected}:$sum{virus}:$sum{spam}\n" if $opt{verbose};
-       RRDs::update $rrd, "$this_minute:$sum{sent}:$sum{received}:$sum{bounced}:$sum{rejected}" unless $opt{'only-virus-rrd'};
-       RRDs::update $rrd_virus, "$this_minute:$sum{virus}:$sum{spam}" unless $opt{'only-mail-rrd'};
-       if($m > $this_minute+$rrdstep) {
-               for(my $sm=$this_minute+$rrdstep;$sm< $m;$sm+=$rrdstep) {
-                       print "update $sm:0:0:0:0:0:0 (SKIP)\n" if $opt{verbose};
-                       RRDs::update $rrd, "$sm:0:0:0:0" unless $opt{'only-virus-rrd'};
-                       RRDs::update $rrd_virus, "$sm:0:0" unless $opt{'only-mail-rrd'};
-               }
-       }
+        system("gmetric -c /etc/gmond.conf --name=mail_sent --value=$sum{sent} --type=int8 --units=messages");
+        system("gmetric -c /etc/gmond.conf --name=mail_received --value=$sum{received} --type=int8 --units=messages");
+        system("gmetric -c /etc/gmond.conf --name=mail_bounced --value=$sum{bounced} --type=int8 --units=messages");
+        system("gmetric -c /etc/gmond.conf --name=mail_rejected --value=$sum{rejected} --type=int8 --units=messages");
+        system("gmetric -c /etc/gmond.conf --name=mail_virus --value=$sum{virus} --type=int8 --units=messages");
+        system("gmetric -c /etc/gmond.conf --name=mail_spam --value=$sum{spam} --type=int8 --units=messages");
+
        $this_minute = $m;
        $sum{sent}=0;
        $sum{received}=0;

I’m sure there are plenty of other ways to do this, but this seems like the most straightforward.