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pan.do/ra |panˈdôrə| Greek Mythology

The first mortal woman. She was created by Zeus and sent to earth with a box of evils in revenge for Prometheus' having brought the gift of fire back to the world. Pandora let out all the evils from the box to infect the earth; hope alone remained to assuage the lot of humankind.

", "about": "

pan.do/ra is a free, open source media archive. It allows you to manage large, decentralized collections of video, to collaboratively create metadata and time-based annotations, and to serve your archive as a cutting-edge web application.

", "news": [ [ "pan.do/ra has a website", "2012-03-15", "We finally have a website. The URL is pan dot do slash ra. Yes, that's a slash. Not sure yet what to do with pan dot do. If you have any ideas, let us know." ], [ "Pad.ma has made the switch", "2012-02-21", "Four years after its initial launch, the Bombay-based video archive Pad.ma has been re-implemented in pan.do/ra.

" ], [ "The first instance of pan.do/ra goes live", "2011-11-11", "Today, the 0xDB Movie Database has been relaunched. 0xDB is the very first public manifestation of pan.do/ra." ] ], "faq": [ [ "Q1 What is pan.do/ra?", "A1 pan.do/ra |panˈdôrə| is a free, open source media archive. It allows you to manage large, decentralized collections of video, to collaboratively create metadata and time-based annotations, and to serve your archive as a cutting-edge web application." ], [ "Q2 Is pan.do/ra stable?", "A2 pan.do/ra runs on 0xdb and Pad.ma. That said, the software has still some rough edges, if you install it yourself, upgrades might need some work. Feel free to contact us if you have questions." ], [ "Q3 Can I send you a postcard?", "A3 Of cause, send it to 0x2620, Memhardtstrasse 2, 10178 Berlin, Germany" ] ], "tour": [ [ "http://0x2620.org/jpg/jpg/0xDB/Screenshots/IMG_0000.jpg", "pan.do/ra home screen" ], [ "http://0x2620.org/jpg/jpg/0xDB/Screenshots/IMG_0001.jpg", "Videos as a list" ], [ "http://0x2620.org/jpg/jpg/0xDB/Screenshots/IMG_0002.jpg", "Videos in a grid" ], [ "http://0x2620.org/jpg/jpg/0xDB/Screenshots/IMG_0003.jpg", "Videos with clips" ], [ "http://0x2620.org/jpg/jpg/0xDB/Screenshots/IMG_0004.jpg", "Videos with timelines" ], [ "http://0x2620.org/jpg/jpg/0xDB/Screenshots/IMG_0005.jpg", "Videos on a map" ], [ "http://0x2620.org/jpg/jpg/0xDB/Screenshots/IMG_0006.jpg", "Videos on a calendar" ], [ "http://0x2620.org/jpg/jpg/0xDB/Screenshots/IMG_0007.jpg", "A video in clips view" ], [ "http://0x2620.org/jpg/jpg/0xDB/Screenshots/IMG_0008.jpg", "Fullscreen player" ], [ "http://0x2620.org/jpg/jpg/0xDB/Screenshots/IMG_0009.jpg", "Annotation editor" ], [ "http://0x2620.org/jpg/jpg/0xDB/Screenshots/IMG_0010.jpg", "Full text search" ], [ "http://0x2620.org/jpg/jpg/0xDB/Screenshots/IMG_0011.jpg", "As you may have noticed, this tour is mostly a placeholder. For more, please come back soon." ] ], "demo": "

While we're still working on a sandbox to demonstrate pan.do/ra's admin features, you can already try out the sites below to see how pan.do/ra works as a regular user:

0xDB is an experimental online movie database. At its core, it provides full text search for more than a hundred years of cinema.



Pad.ma, short for Public Access Digital Media Archive, is an online repository of densely annotated video materials, primarily documentary footage.

", "download": "pan.do/ra will be officially released later in 2012. Until then, you can download and install the latest version here.

pan.do/ra can be installed on most Linux distributions, preferably Ubuntu. It works fine on many other systems, for example on a MacBook, using a virtual machine.

", "documentation": "

As pan.do/ra has not yet been released, documentation is still a work in progress.

A lot of information can be found on our Wiki. If you need instructions for setting up pan.do/ra, check out the readme file that comes with it.

pan.do/ra's public API includes its own documentation. You can browse it at any live instance of pan.do/ra, for example at 0xDB.org/api.

Detailed documentation of OxJS, the JavaScript library used to build pan.do/ra's frontend, can be found at OxJS.org.

", "development": "

In a nutshell, pan.do/ra is a python backend, based on Django, a JavaScript frontend, using OxJS, and a variety of tools around it.

To browse or check out the source, take a look at our repository. If you want to report bugs or request features, please use our tracker. For everything else, there's IRC, and our development mailing list.

pan.do/ra's interface was made with OxJS, a new JavaScript library for web applications. To learn more about OxJS, check out OxJS.org.



pan.do/ra comes with Firefogg, a browser extension for client-side video encoding and upload. Please visit firefogg.org for more information.


", "support": "

In case you just need help with installing, configuring or running pan.do/ra yourself, don't hesitate to get in touch with us.

Beyond that, we provide support and offer hosting for individual instances of pan.do/ra. For more details, please send us an e-mail.



", "credits": "

pan.do/ra is being developed and maintained by Jan Gerber and Sebastian Lütgert at 0x2620 in Berlin and Sanjay Bhangar at CAMP in Bombay.

From its early stages on, pan.do/ra has received valuable feedback, especially from Zinnia Ambarpardiwala, Shaina Anand and Ashok Sukumaran.

Last but not least, pan.do/ra would not have been possible without the support of the Bohen Foundation.

", "contact": "

E-mail: 0x2620@0x2620.org

IRC: irc.freenode.net#pan.do/ra

Twitter: @0x2620

0x2620
Memhardtstrasse 2
10178 Berlin
Germany

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