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Alfresco as a repository for broadcast Advertisements

apoorvdurga — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:25:21 GMT

We are proposing Alfresco for building a content repository for serving Ads to broadcasters. So essentially there will be people who upload ads along with metadata in different formats - Audio, Video, Flash etc. The idea is that the ad player device will interact with alfresco using web services or

Re: Alfresco as a repository for broadcast Advertisements

apoorvdurga — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:21:27 GMT

No replies was it such a bad question?

Re: Alfresco as a repository for broadcast Advertisements

kevinr — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:38:19 GMT

1) You can add a custom transformer class to do this using the usual APIs. I suggest a quick search of SourceForge to see if there any Java or command line tools that can do this for you. There are examples of transformers that call command line programs (i.e. Imagemagik) so that is certainly possible.

2) Yes you can add your own roles/permissions by customising the model/permissionDefinitions.xml file - see the section in the file:
<!– Permissions available to all content and folders –>
for our existing role definitions.

3) I guess that depends on how you are going to use the objects.

4) If you add custom meta-data to your types/aspects that represent those documents then you can use Lucene search and Freemarker templates to generate reports on those items. You could add a custom meta-data extractor class that can read the formats you create and extra data from them as meta-data. An example of this is the MP3MetadataExtracter we have now.

Thanks,

Kevin