{"id":1735,"date":"2014-02-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2014\/02\/18\/1692\/"},"modified":"2014-02-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T23:00:00","slug":"1692","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2014\/02\/18\/1692\/","title":{"rendered":"DC-X in action: Public video archive for the German Federal Archives (Bundesarchiv), Transit Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday, a project I\u2019ve been involved with was officially launched: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmothek.bundesarchiv.de\">filmothek.bundesarchiv.de<\/a>. It\u2019s a Web site showing contemporary history videos from the German Federal Archives (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bundesarchiv.de\/\">Bundesarchiv<\/a>), distributed by their partner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transitfilm.de\/\">Transit Film<\/a>, implemented by our company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digicol.de\">Digital Collections<\/a> (based on our Digital Asset Management system DC-X), with Web design by our partner <a href=\"http:\/\/pier2port.de\">Pier2Port<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Content is king \u2013 the most interesting thing about this is the amazing videos from post-WW2 Germany and beyond (most of them in German): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmothek.bundesarchiv.de\/video\/583434\">The surrender of Nazi Germany<\/a> (1945), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmothek.bundesarchiv.de\/video\/590218\">John F. Kennedy in Germany<\/a> (1963), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmothek.bundesarchiv.de\/video\/589962\">the fall of the Berlin Wall<\/a> (1989). I love that it\u2019s original, unadulterated material. The videos can be viewed freely, no registration required. (Film producers can buy licenses, of course.)<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, there\u2019s about 2,300 videos in the archives. In the back end, there\u2019s a standard DC-X installation that holds the video files (in MP4 and WebM format) and the video metadata. Most of the customization is in the importers and metadata schema. Our customers can edit metadata in the back end, which is then replicated to a front end server.<\/p>\n<p>The front end, the actual Web site you\u2019re seeing, is a fully customized HTML UI built on DC-X APIs and its Solr search integration. I had a lot of fun developing it\u2026 We intentionally kept the architecture simple, doing most of the work on the server side in PHP, with just a little bit of JavaScript where needed. This results in a search engine friendly site that also performs nicely on tablets (it\u2019s not yet designed for smaller screens, though).<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s lots more features to come, and even more videos will be made available \u2013 so make sure to come back to the site again in a few months!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday, a project I\u2019ve been involved with was officially launched: filmothek.bundesarchiv.de. It\u2019s a Web site showing contemporary history videos from the German Federal Archives (Bundesarchiv), distributed by their partner Transit Film, implemented by our company Digital Collections (based on our Digital Asset Management system DC-X), with Web design by our partner Pier2Port. Content is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}