DLW Meeting Notes 2007-01-24
From WEFT Wiki
- These are Steve's notes from the 2007-01-24 meeting of the Digital Library Workgroup that was called on somewhat short notice. In attendance from the MC were Steve and Jay, with Mark Bee also attending (partly as a PC rep) to raise some issues for our consideration. Yannis sent in some issues to discuss, which we also addressed.
Jay will communicate w/ John Coleman about getting a channel on the board and report back.
Legal issues:
- Assume that our plan is legal: good faith
- Contact Mick and Paul to track down the explicit documentation that indicates that what we're doing is legal, assuming we've made the effort to prevent music from unauthorized copying
- WEFT has the right (as an individual) has a right to copy music for its own use (format shifting)
We'll start building the system while the proposal is percolating up. We can find hardware to do it on. PC is planning on getting a new computer. We will contact PC to get the go ahead to repurpose the current Great Hall computer.
Multiple separate trial implementations is not a good strategy. MacOS and Windows are not feasible as server platforms for us.
Considering iTunes, we don't need a Mac to set up a server; look at open source DAAP. This can run alongside a web-based system, to give user the option. Perhaps set up DAAP in Phase 2.
Having additional metadata about albums would be nice; more of a Phase 2 issue. A database would be necessary for this, but not for Phase 1 outside of whatever database our chosen software might need (options: MySQL, Postgres, SQLite).
Neat note: If Ampache (or Gnump3d?) actually do IceCast, it turns out iTunes, WinAmp, etc., can actually play these streams. Do the streams send out metadata, too?
Don't limit Phase 1 such that all genre directors must participate; don't need everyone on board to make progress. Phase 2 should have that as a requirement for genre directors, though.
No external drives: no need, and causes security concerns. We're guaranteed to have a computer to work with (assuming PC gives us their old computer). Buy two internal drives instead (same capacity, and they'll be cheaper!). What connector? We can work with a smaller, single, donor drive until we get these.
Need appoint someone as the technical contact for the library (e.g. if a drive fails).
Use rsync instead of flexbackup.
6 month timeline: 4 months: getting 3 months of data 2 months: flesh out proposal work on trial system concurrently
Daily backups rather than frequent; problem of mirroring bad data (i.e. if the library gets deleted).
