Internet Archive

The ia module is a custom Drupal module that is used to interact with the Internet Archive. it provides methods that allow contributing (uploading/publishing) to archive.org and for retrieving media metadata from archive postings in the Ourmedia collection.

I am working on this module in order to track down various bugs related to media links not showing up correctly due to incomplete or missing information relating our nodes to archive posts.

Here are some notes and issues:

• There are a number of obsolete and non-functioning archive web services specified in this module. In particular:

Tracey updated the Ourmedia collection logo. Looks nice!

Here is the code from an archive.org page Flash player. They are using FlowPlayer. I've cleaned up the spacing and changed the url's from relative to absolute. The extra space in the code's "flowplayerdiv " div id attribute is to ensure that there is only one "flowplayerdiv" div on this page. Remove the space if you copy the code.

I was going through ia.module and checking on which archive.org web services are still valid. I sent an email to Tracey to get the latest info. While poking around with the oai2 service, I just noticed this great little schema for it:

http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/OAI-PMH.xsd

A SpinXpress user posted a video to the Internet Archive but it did not show up at Ourmedia. Turns out that the reason for this is that the person had never logged into Ourmedia before and the "ia" module quietly does nothing in that case. No error message, no nothing.

So this got me looking over ia.module in general and hook_cron() in particular. Then I looked at all the hook_cron's in all our modules and found lots of issues.