Archiving Talk

Our needs

  • Storing a diverse corpus of audio, video, pictures, books and text.
  • Digital archive exists since 1985 but contains data from before. It started with the original Macintosh.
  • We have data and software that:
    • Is programmed in strange programming languages.
    • Uses niche databases.
  • Our system needs to handle a variety of Indic languages and scripts.

Jnanam DB

  •   ~16 years ago we started Jnanam DB
  • We sent a monk to university to learn how to organize information. This was designed after he came back.
  • Based on the Dublin Core.
  • Objectives:
    • Minimize the amount of joins.
    • Able to store anything with the current schema.

Main table called item

has 88 fields

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It currently holds 8.000 items. Not much for a database.

Each record has a type

'text/book',

'text/booklet',

'text/review',

'text/quote',

'audio/chant',

'audio/inspiredtalk',

'audio/song',

'audio/podcasts',

'audio/instrumental',

'audio/shum',

 

'app',

'video/pubdesk',

'video/travel',

'video/teaching',

'video/ritual',

'video/building',

'video/talk',

'video/news',

'external/page',

'art/photography',

 

'art/painting',

'art/drawing',

'art/vector',

'slideshow/external',

'slideshow/galleria',

'slideshow/vr',

'audio/book'

We have our own desktop app to manage the database

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