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pan.do/ra |panˈdôrə| Greek Mythology

Pandora (Πανδώρα, \"all-gifted\" or \"all-giving\", from πᾶς \"all\" and δῶρον \"gift\") was the first mortal woman. She was created by Zeus and sent to earth with a box of evils in revenge for Prometheus' theft of fire. Out of curiosity, Pandora opened the box and released all the evils — leaving only hope inside.

", "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": [ [ "Q: What can I do with pan.do/ra, and how?", "A: With pan.do/ra you can browse, annotate, search and watch videos - be it your own archive, or someone else's. pan.do/ra is a web site that runs in your browser, so you can either put your collection online, or just use it in your local network. All you have to do is download pan.do/ra and install it on a Linux machine, or just get it pre-installed on a Virtual Machine that will run on most other computers too, quite likely including your laptop. And if you don't have your own video collection, you can use it to explore someone else's." ], [ "Q: What does pan.do/ra cost?", "A: Maybe some time, but zero money (and only if your time is worth a lot, you can invert that relation). pan.do/ra is free, open source software, licensed under the GNU General Public License, so you can download it for free, run, explore and modify it in any way you wish, make as many copies as you like and give them to whoever you want." ], [ "Q: Is pan.do/ra ready for production?", "A: It depends. It's already being used in production, but as of now, there is no \"official\" or \"stable\" first release. There will be one, later this year. The latest version should work fine, so you can already try it out, but if you really need to use it immediately for something important, you should get in touch with us before, just to make sure that whatever you put into it now doesn't just go up in flames once there is a first proper release." ] ], "tour": [ [ "png/tour/01.png", "pan.do/ra home screen" ], [ "png/tour/02.png", "Videos can be browsed in many views: as a list ..." ], [ "png/tour/03.png", "... in a grid ..." ], [ "png/tour/04.png", "... with different icons ..." ], [ "png/tour/05.png", "... with timelines ..." ], [ "png/tour/06.png", "... with clips ..." ], [ "png/tour/07.png", "... or just as a list of clips ..." ], [ "png/tour/08.png", "... or even on a map ..." ], [ "png/tour/09.png", "... or on a calendar." ], [ "png/tour/10.png", "Each video has many views as well: an info page ..." ], [ "png/tour/11.png", "... with custom metadata ..." ], [ "png/tour/12.png", "... a fullscreen player ..." ], [ "png/tour/13.png", "... an annotation editor ..." ], [ "png/tour/14.png", "... that allows for full-text search ..." ], [ "png/tour/15.png", "... in time-based annotations ..." ], [ "png/tour/16.png", "... including places and events." ], [ "png/tour/17.png", "There is also a timeline view ..." ], [ "png/tour/18.png", "... and a clips view" ], [ "png/tour/19.png", "pan.do/ra is a full-fledged application, with proper menus ..." ], [ "png/tour/20.png", "... and dialogs ..." ], [ "png/tour/21.png", "... and forms." ], [ "png/tour/22.png", "As an administator, you can browse various statistcs ..." ], [ "png/tour/23.png", "... and edit places ..." ], [ "png/tour/24.png", "... and events." ], [ "png/tour/25.png", "For a more in-depth walkthrough, check out the first Pad.ma Screencast" ] ], "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, a variety of tools around it, and a JSON API in between. This API is 100% public, and apart from static files, like images or videos, nothing but JSON ever crosses the wire. Anything more web-specific, in fact anything that has to do with resolving URLs and rendering HTML, happens on the client.

This means that there is virtually no limit to what you can do with pan.do/ra: Use it as it comes out of the box, deploy it as an internal tool and put a completely different public website in front of it, run bots or command-line clients to automate specific tasks, just script it from the console, or even build a native application on top of 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. Your feedback is welcome.

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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