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I'll touch a little on the historical legacy and why Perl is used. From there I'll share some tips, best practices, and some of the mistakes I've made in trying to maintain this code. Most of the advice will transition to any language, but code and libraries discussed will be Perl. The presentation will also touch on some internal debate on whether or not to port parts of our Perl codebase.
== Recorded Radio/TV broadcasts streamed for library users ==
* Kåre Fiedler Christiansen, The State and University Library Denmark, kfc@statsbiblioteket.dk
* Mads Villadsen, The State and University Library Denmark, mv@statsbiblioteket.dk
"Provide online access to the Radio/TV collection," my boss said. About 500,000
hours of Danish broacast radio and TV. Easy, right? Well, half a year later
we'd done it, but it turned out to involve practically every it employee in the
library and quite a few non-technical people as well.
Combining our Fedora-based DOMS repository system with our Lucene-based Summa
search system with our WAYF-based single-signon system with an upgrade of our
SAN system for enough speed to deliver the content with an ffmpeg-based
transcoding workflow system with a Wowza-based streaming server, and sprinkling
it all with a nice user-friendly web frontend turned out to be quite a challenge,
but also one of the most engaging experiences for a long time.
Of course we were immidiately shut down, since the legal details weren't quite
as clear as we thought they were, but take an exclusive preview at
http://developer.statsbiblioteket.dk/kultur/ - username/password: code4lib.
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