Open Meta Archive

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The OMA (short for Open Meta Archive) is a multimedia content management system based upon a separate cross referencing for the single media video, audio, images and text. The OMA unifies these separate media modules on a meta level.

"You don't have to know everything, you just have to know the reference."

This is only possible, if there is an appropriate system in the archiving process. For various media the requirements for indexing is different. This leads to different indexing structures for each medium. OMA harmonizes the so differenciated media entries to the database by connecting these different archiving systems on a meta level. Putting information into an archive, is to serve someone' s needs to access these informations. By providing an all-in-one surface to different media, OMA provides a solution to create new archived contexts from existing server-based mono- or few-media archives and publish them.

The Open Meta Archive, OMA, is a multimedial content management system on the basis of specific detailed information to different media like video, audio, image and text within the database system. The Open Meta Archive is combining these seperate medial modules on a meta level.

    The main components of the system are...
  • Media cross referencing according to their specific attributes
  • category system, based on a freely definable tree structure
  • anchoring of the different media within this tree structure
  • media can be copied, moved or linked within the tree
  • media upload and cross referencing over the web browser
  • access rights on user level
  • automated cross referencing over XML
  • structured document output with style templates according to XML, HTML, and others
  • full text and index search, hierarchical navigation in the index tree
  • data distribution on net attached, (but ?) independently administrated computers
  • screen design definable over templates

    Six simple steps to media content management under the Open Meta Archive
  1. Create a tree structure
  2. Upload your media files
  3. Do a crossreference for your separate/single (?) media within the database
  4. Create a meta object within the tree structure
  5. Assign the single media to your meta object
  6. Publish the meta object

OMA is OpenSource software and is being licensed under the GNU Public License Agreement.

Downloads unter oma.sourceforge.net

Frank Kunkel kunkolo@gmx.net