mediathread | Django application for multimedia annotations facilitating collaboration on video and image analysis | Video Utils library

Build the database For Postgres (preferred): A. Create the database createdb mediathread. For MySQL: (Note: Mediathread is not well-tested on recent version of MySQL.) A. Edit the file requirements.txt - comment out the line psycopg2 - uncomment the MySQL-python line. B. Create the database. echo "CREATE DATABASE mediathread" | mysql -uroot -p mysql. Customize settings Create a local_settings.py file in the mediathread subdirectory. Override the variables from settings_shared.py that you need to customize for your local installation. At a minimum, you will need to customize your DATABASES dictionary. An example local_settings.py is available in our repository.
Clone Mediathread git clone https://github.com/ccnmtl/mediathread.git
Build the database For Postgres (preferred): A. Create the database createdb mediathread For MySQL: (Note: Mediathread is not well-tested on recent version of MySQL.) A. Edit the file requirements.txt - comment out the line psycopg2 - uncomment the MySQL-python line. B. Create the database echo "CREATE DATABASE mediathread" | mysql -uroot -p mysql
Customize settings Create a local_settings.py file in the mediathread subdirectory. Override the variables from settings_shared.py that you need to customize for your local installation. At a minimum, you will need to customize your DATABASES dictionary. An example local_settings.py is available in our repository. For more extensive customization and template overrides, you can create a deploy_specific directory to house a site-specific settings.py file: $ mkdir deploy_specific $ touch deploy_specific/__init__.py $ touch deploy_specific/settings.py Edit the deploy_specific/settings.py and override values in settings_shared.py like the DATABASES dictionary. This is where we add custom settings and templates for our deployment that will not be included in the open-sourced distribution. An example deploy_specific setup is available in our repository.
Build the virtual environment Bootstrap uses virtualenv to build a contained library in ve/. django.mk specifies the build target for creating the virtualenv, and running any of the targets specified in that file will automatically set this up. make
Sync the database ./manage.py migrate
Run locally (during development only) ./manage.py runserver myhost.example.com:8000
The default database is not very useful. You'll need to create a course and some users. Login with the superuser you created in Step #5.
Navigate to /admin/. Click Courses.
Click the 'Add Course +' link. Click the "+" to make a group. Name it something like "test_course" Click the "+" to make a faculty group. Name it something like "test_course_faculty" In the "Add users to group" field... add yourself as a faculty member by putting your username with a "*" in front like this "*admin" add some fellow faculty/student accounts -- you can create new accounts right here (read the instructions under the textarea) Click "Save" and then click the upper-right link "Django administration" to get back to the regular site (yeah, not the most intuitive).
Experiment with saving assets by visiting: http://myhost.example.com:8000/save/