moving along now

anyone seen [http://www.joost.com joost]? what's the initial verdict?

meanwhile, we have new developments afoot with the project that got me into this whole malarkey, that is [http://www.ifiwatch.tv Eyes on IFIs]. we are transferring it into the free and open source Drupal content management system, and creating new data upload forms partially based on the draft transmission metadata standard.

it is getting increasingly urgent to finalise this standard, not least because [http://www.engagemedia.org Engagemedia] are also at a point where they need to implement standard forms for their Plone video package. we're enthusiastic users and ready to test the standard with real world implementation, yet the technical comments on the first proposal have not yet been argued out and integrated....

SO, if anyone is - or knows - a good bright geek with time and energy to finish off the good work done on this to date, I think they will be much beloved by this network - and beyond!

check out the [http://wiki.transmission.cc/index.php/Metadata_Workspace metadata workspace] on the transmission wiki for more info, any (public) questions or comments, please add to this blog, otherwise pls get in touch with me privately.

finally, there is now an [http://www.integrationproclamation.com integration proclamation] on the net for us to sign up to if we like, seems to be intended to raise awareness and provoke funders etc to support this most urgent kind of technical integration work...

tA!