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Telemeta is a free and open source web audio content management system which introduces useful and secure methods to backup, index, transcode, analyse and publish any digitalized audio file with its metadata. It is dedicated to professionnals who wants to easily organize, backup, archive and publish documented sound collections of audio files, CDs, digitalized vinyls and magnetic tapes over a strong database, in accordance with open web standards.

Here are the main features of Telemeta:

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 serialized backup
Strong SQL or Oracle backend
Multi-language support (now english and french)

This software 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.

Telemeta is sponsored by :

Parisson : R&D for custom media solutions
CNRS : Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (the french Natianal Research and Scientific Center)
CREM : Centre de Recherche en Ethnomusicology (the french Ethnomusicology Research Center)
TGE ADONIS : Très Grand Equipement ADONIS of the CNRS

Telemeta is supported by :

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, Paris)
MuCEM : Musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée
MMSH : Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l'Homme

The Telemeta project is managed by :

Guillaume Pellerin <yomguy (at) parisson.com>
Joséphine Simonnot <josephine.simonnot (at) mae.u-paris10.fr>.

The Telemeta application is or has been developed by :

Guillaume Pellerin (Parisson)
Riccardo Zaccarelli (Parisson)
Olivier Guilyardi (Samalyse)

SCREENSHOTS

Telemeta 1.0 for the [CREM (LESC, University Paris 10 Nanterre)

EXAMPLES

Archives of the "Centre de Recherche en Ethnomusicologie":
- full metadata migration of the 100 year old database,
- more than 5000 geolocated collections,
- more than 32000 geolocated items,
- more than 150 Go of WAV ethnological music files.
- http://archives.crem-cnrs.fr

Parisson sandbox:
- http://parisson.telemeta.org/items/PRS_07_01_03/

DEMO

Go to demo.telemeta.org and use the following login to try Telemeta has an administrator :

login : demo
password : demo

INSTALL

Two possible methods:

Get the last archives here. Uncompress the downloaded archive, go into the created directory and install it from your favorite shell :
```
sudo python setup.py install
```

Use python package tools :

sudo pip install telemeta

sudo easy_install telemeta

For more informations about how to install it and how to start a new telemeta instance please read README and INSTALL.

DEVELOPMENT

WARNING ! Telemeta now uses Git.

Get the lastest development version to try the lastest useful features :
```
git clone http://vcs.parisson.com/git/telemeta.git
```

To get the CREM's branch:

git clone http://vcs.parisson.com/git/telemeta.git
cd telemeta
git checkout crem

Please follow / fork the project on GitHub !

You can also browse the code thru the GitWeb interface.

To get write access to the main repository (i.e. git+ssh://vcs.parisson.com/var/git/telemeta.git), please contact us by email.

LICENSE

See TelemetaLicense for details about the CeCILL v2 license (GPL like)

DONATE

If you use Telemeta for production, please help us to improve and promote the application by donating something to the project.

Please click on the following button to be redirected to PayPal:

DEPENDENCIES

python (>= 2.4)
python-django
python-xml
python-numpy
python-scipy
python-imaging
python-ctypes
python-mutagen
python-mysqldb
python-timeside
python-gobject
python-gst0.10
python-setuptools
python-support
python-south
gstreamer0.10-plugins-base
gobject-introspection
mysql-server or sqlite3 or oracle database

RELATED PROJECTS

As part of the Telemeta project, the python module TimeSide (GPL v2) is developed to handle audio analysis, transcoding and visualization.

See code.google.com/p/timeside/ for more infos.

MAILING LIST

In order to follow the Telemeta project development and the discussions of the community, you are welcome to join the mailing list by subscribing on this page :

http://lists.parisson.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/telemeta

DOCUMENTATION

Full technical code documentation
InterfaceCustomization: How to customize the look and feel of Telemeta
DataFormats: Data formats in Telemeta, according to usage contexts and application architecture
EthnomusDatabase: Description of the original Database of the CNRS Ethnomusicology Laboratory and telemeta mapping proposal
AccessPermissions: Access permissions details
MetadataInteroperability: Connecting and broadcasting to other data systems, using Dublin Core
FormatsAudio: Definitions of Telemeta's audio formats
ComponentsAndTools?: Needed dependencies and interesting tools for future development
GlobalArchitecture: Global view of Telemeta's architecture
Presentation Adonis 09/2008 (PDF, french)
Presentation Anthroponet 12/2008 (PDF, french)
ProjetDiadems : informations concernant l'appel à projet ANR CONTINT 2011
Présentation / Formation au CREM (MAE) du 27/06/2011
Formation ingénieur (install, dev) TGE Adonis 12/2011
Présentation CMTRA et RIZE de Lyon 04/2012

TracGuide: How to use the Trac environment (where you currently are)

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