On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 03:08:34PM -0500, zachary rosen wrote: > Yes, the role of tracking the metadata for the media on the network > really isnt that big of a task, so having a central DB do the task > rather than a distributed DB won't kill the whole project :) But i > completly disagree with your observation that a centralized system > is much easier or would save us a lot of time. Every node is going to have > to host the media anyways. This means every node will have to have a > utility for uploading and pruning media. Then it makes very little sense > to me to not also assign the metadata to the content on the nodes as well > and just aggregate like the rest of the network content sharing > functionality.
Forgive me if this is a stupid question... but why not use Gnutella-net for this? I'm assuming we're talking about "cleared" media, right? What better way to legitimize P2P networking, while at the same time pushing something out of the core that's been *done* already. With proper use of filename-tagging, you can even search on what you need to search on. You might or might not want to be interconnected with the main G-net, but certainly the technology's worth a look, no? > I think DeanMediaTeam is great. They are fulfilling a very important > task. There is a very large need for a community organized around the > creation of dean media, and it think they will do a hell of a lot for this > campaign. I also think they would be the perfect choice to maintain the > global media repository that tracks all the media on the network. > > I don't think they should be the central authority, spoke-and-wheel, > broadcast-center to ALL network dean campaign media. Concur -- nice to know that someone with chops is working that booth. I'm not 100% sure that your caveat correctly characterizes what they're trying to do, but to the extent that it does, my (admittedly knee-jerk) reaction is to agree. I *do* think that coordination of data-dictionaries is essential, though -- and I think this work has already been done in the professional broadcast arena. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think Tampa Bay, Florida http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 OS X: Because making Unix user-friendly was easier than debugging Windows -- Simon Slavin, on a.f.c
