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.

~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.

'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