Video metadata exposure: PeerTube compatibility

rlemetayer

Hello,

I am a volunteer for Framasoft, a French non profit association. Among many activities we develop PeerTube (https://joinpeertube.org/en_US/), a free and decentralized alternative to video platforms.

I am looking for good examples of metadata exposure for video to make PeerTube Zotero compatible.

For Youtube and Vimeo, translators are included in Zotero. Unfortunately I don’t think it can be possible for PeerTube because a translator is used for a specific url whereas in the case of PeerTube there can be as many urls as there are instances of PeerTube.

For information, I am not a developper myself, I just collect information to synthetize it and forward it to the dev team.

Thanks for reading (and answering ;-) )

damnation

You've seen this guide?
https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/exposing_metadata

adamsmith

For technical details, the relevant code is in these two translators https://github.com/zotero/translators/blob/master/RDF.js
https://github.com/zotero/translators/blob/master/Embedded Metadata.js

I'm not aware of any great example of video import relying only on existing metadata -- it might be worth just waiting for https://github.com/zotero/translators/pull/1897/files to land (I'd expect that to be reasonably soon, but no guarantees) -- that includes JSON-LD, which peertube already includes by default.

rlemetayer

@damnation Thanks for the link, i had seen this page and had given it to the dev team but we were looking for concrete examples (by the way, sadly a lot of links on COinS and unAPI died on this page).

Finally the closest example I found is this page, where Zotero detects correctly the COinS code of the described movie: https://goinnorth.org/items/show/87.

I was also able to "create" examples by using Zotero on Youtube videos and exporting them from my Zotero library in COinS format.

@adamsmith: Thanks a lot for these links. Indeed, it might be wiser to wait until this pull request is merged and see if it works as expected.