Telemeta 1.5.1

Overview

Telemeta is a free and open source web audio archiving software which introduces useful and secure methods to backup, index, transcode, analyse and publish any digitalized audio file with extensive metadata. It is dedicated to collaborative media archiving projects, research laboratories and digital humanities - and especially in ethnomusicological use cases - who wants to easily organize, backup and publish documented sound collections of audio files, CDs, digitalized vinyls and magnetic tapes over a strong database, in accordance with open web standards.

Key features:

• Secure archiving, editing and publishing of audio files over internet.

• Pure HTML web user interface including dynamical forms and smart workflows

• Smart dynamical and skinnable audio player (thanks to TimeSide and SoundManager2)

• “On the fly” audio analyzing, transcoding and metadata embedding based on an easy plugin architecture

• Social cumulative indexing with semantic ontologies and timecoded markers

• Multi-format support : FLAC, OGG, MP3, WAV and more

• User management with individual desk, lists, profiles and rights

• Playlist management for all users with CSV data export

• Geo-Navigator for audio geolocalization

• High level search engine

• DublinCore compatibility

• OAI-PMH data provider

• RSS feed generators

• XML and ZIP serialized backups

• SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL or Oracle DB backends

• Multi-language support (now english and french)

• Video support (EXPERIMENTAL, WebM only)

This web audio CMS is exclusively based on open source modules and can be run on any Unix or Linux system. It is mostly written in Python and JavaScript.

The processing engine of Telemeta is a separate project called TimeSide as an open web audio pocessing framework written in Python.

News

Examples

• Sound archives of the French Ethnomusicology Research Center (CREM) and the Musée de l’Homme :

• a 120 year old ethnomusicologic database,

• more than 5000 geolocated collections,

• more than 32000 geolocated items,

• more than 11000 sounds included

• 1.5 To of original music files accessible online.

• started in june 2011

• Sound archives of the team “Lutherie, Acoustique et Musique” (LAM) of the IJLRDA institute - University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) :

• original musical instruments recorded for research purposes

• started in sept. 2012

• Sound archives of Parisson Studio

• Scaled BIOdiversity (SABIOD)

Demo

http://demo.telemeta.org

login: demo password: demo

Install

See INSTALL.rst and telemeta.org for more informations.

API / Documentation

• Publications : https://github.com/Parisson/Telemeta-doc

• API : http://files.parisson.com/doc/telemeta/

• Player : https://github.com/Parisson/TimeSide/

• Example : http://archives.crem-cnrs.fr/archives/items/CNRSMH_E_2004_017_001_01/

Related software projects

• TimeSide: high level python audio processing framework

• Diadems Description, Indexation, Access to Sound and Ethnomusicological Documents, funded by the French Research Agency (ANR CONTINT 2012)

• TimeSide-Diadems: a set of Timeside plugins developed during the Diadems project

Development

You are welcome to participate to the development of the Telemeta project. The official project site is telemeta.org but you can find a mirror on GitHub.

To get and run the lastest development version:

sudo apt-get install git
git clone https://github.com/Parisson/Telemeta.git
cd Telemeta
git checkout dev
git submodule foreach git fetch --tags
git submodule update --init --recursive
sudo pip install -e .
export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:`pwd`

Bugs and feedback

You are welcome to freely use this application in accordance with its licence. If you find some bugs, PLEASE leave a ticket on this page:

https://github.com/Parisson/Telemeta/issues/new

You can also leave some ticket to request some new interesting features for the next versions and tweet your ideas to @telemeta.

And even if Telemeta suits you, please give us some feedback !

Contact

Homepage: http://telemeta.org

Emails:

• Guillaume Pellerin <yomguy@parisson.com>,

• Thomas Fillon <thomas@parisson.com>

• Anas Ghrab <anas.ghrab@gmail.com>

• Olivier Guilyardi <olivier@samalyse.com>,

• Riccardo Zaccarelli <riccardo.zaccarelli@gmail.com>

Twitter:

• https://twitter.com/telemeta

• https://twitter.com/parisson_studio

• https://twitter.com/yomguy

License

CeCILL v2, compatible with GPL v2 (see LICENSE)

Sponsors

The Telemeta project is developed by Parisson. It is sponsored by :

• CNRS : Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (the french Natianal Research and Scientific Center) http://cnrs.fr

• CREM : Centre de Recherche en Ethnomusicology (the french Ethnomusicology Research Center) http://www.crem-cnrs.fr

• LAM : Equipe Lutherie, Acoustique et Musique de l’Université Pierre et Marie Curie de Paris (Instrument design, Acoustic and Music team of the Pierre & Marie Curie University) http://www.lam.jussieu.fr/

• MuCEM : Musée des Civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée http://www.musee-europemediterranee.org

• MMSH : Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme http://www.mmsh.univ-aix.fr/

• MNHN : Museum d’Histoire Naturelle (Paris, France) http://www.mnhn.fr