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Abstract

You can upload any type of content to a Roller weblog and include that content on weblog entries as images or Podcasts, but the tools for doing so are lacking. The interface that allows you to browse your file uploads does not display thumbnails, it is not sortable and not pagable. Once you have uploaded an image or Podcast, you have to cut and paste the URL into your blog post. This project will replace that old File Upload user interface with a more interactive and modern UI for browsing and choosing media and automatically adding the correct HTML markup to blog entries.

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• Ability to specify more information about the file being uploaded.
  • Capture these metadata - file name, description, copyright text, tags.
• Enhanced view of uploaded files.
  • Hierarchical display (show all folders with expand/collapse buttons, no thumbnail)
  • Tabular display (shows just one folder at a time, with links for other folders)
    • Display thumbnail for images
    • Display thumbnail for videos (with play/pause buttons)
    • Display icon for other kind of files.
    • Have pagination
  • Have the ability to switch between hierarchical and tabular display.
• Manage uploaded files
  • Move files across folders.
  • Delete files.
  • Edit metadata (add/modify tags, modify file name, modify description, modify copy right text)
• Ability to define security level for specify whether the uploaded file (Public/private) can be included in common media library
  • Ones made "public" will be made available as a library to other bloggers. (This will lead to a whole new functionality of media
    library which can be browsed by any other blogger)
  • Force blogger to make a private file public, when they try to publish a blog post after adding a private file.
• Ability to sort from tabular display.
  • Have ability to sort by name, date uploaded and file type
• Ability to filter file lists by
  • file name
  • file type (audio, video etc)
  • file extension
  • uploaded date range
  • Size
  • tag
• Ability to create a blog post out of uploaded files.
  • After a file is uploaded, provide option to create a blog post out of it.
  • Ability to select one or more files from the list and create a blog post out of the selected files.

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• Ability to add media from media library (library built from all files uploaded and shared by user communiitycommunity)
  • search Search by tag, name and description.
  • pick Pick the selected one to be displayed.
  • If it is an image, specify dimension and layout to be used in the blog post.

• Other enhancements to "create post" interface
  • Choose text in the post and insert links easily.

Others

• ATOM publishing protocol for media files uploaded files - change the structure to be hierarchical and add the metadata information (name, description, tags, copyright text) for each file.
• Support ATOM feed for "latest images that you uploaded".
• Media files display - Make it CoolIris compatible.

Issues

Not yet discussed

Design

User Interface Design

http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ROLLER/UI+design

Class Design

http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ROLLER/Media+blogging+-+Class+design

Sequence diagrams

http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ROLLER/Media+blogging+-+Sequence+diagrams

Data Model

Reference

1) Academic project report associated with this proposalTo be added.

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