- TYPE : (research/development/deployment)
MediaHUB => CoolBox?
development of hardware/software for self-contained juke-box that not only plays but also digitises media formats (video & audio) and than distributes tham to other stationary hubs when bandwith is available (night?) for big files
origin:JUKEBOX - juke - “bad, wicked, disorderly,” :: Gullah, the English-based Creole language spoken by people of African ancestry off the coast of Georgia and South Carolina, retains a number of words from the West African languages brought over by slaves.
MediaHUB is Jukbox-like hardware setup that contains - pc based storage system for media library of high resolution media, its metadata, previews (or proxies)
- digital and analog inputs for uploading media into system
- software that automaticly converts these into standardasied formats and fills in metadata
- premanent network connection that enables per-demand exchange off these media files in-between different MediaHUBs
- software that automaticly exchanges lists of available media files and reports its use and disemination across network.
- related technologies:
- v2v
- OMA
- freenet/gnutela
- freevo
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- related design:
Use... research for digital media curators, collaborative media projects, educational material for students and enthusiasts.
- inplementation locations:
- ljudmila - KUD, cyberpipa, kibla, pina,
- mi2 - mama, travellab-Split, MP Hackalab, Dubrovnik?
- proba - soba, ?mostar
- kuda - kuda, cyber rex
- subsignal - weimar UNI
- ? offer outside the network ?