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Welcome to the Digital Bazaar Wiki
Welcome to the Digital Bazaar Wiki. This site contains information on all of the current projects that we are working on. If you can't find what you are looking for here, you might try Bitmunk, Digital Bazaar's Blog, or our corporate website.
If you need help, the best way to reach us is via an e-mail to our Customer Support.
General Information
- Bitmunk Overview - Overview of Bitmunk, a copyright-aware, legal, DRM-free peer-to-peer network. Almost 1 million songs are available for purchase and re-sale via the network.
- Digital Bazaar Blog - News on how the digital content industry and you are working together to provide entertainment and research to the world.
Bitmunk FAQs
- Registration - Answers about registering on Bitmunk.
- Search - Information regarding Searching and Browsing on Bitmunk.
- Buyer - Answers about Buying digital content via Bitmunk.
- Seller - Answers about selling your digital music or video collection on Bitmunk.
- Creator - Answers about uploading and selling content you have created via Bitmunk.
- Publisher - Answers about selling your artists/writers digital content via Bitmunk.
- Troubleshooting - How to fix problems you may encounter while using the service.
- Technical - Technical explanations on how Bitmunk works.
- Legal - Answers to legal questions regarding Bitmunk.
- Financial - Information about how financial data is processed on Bitmunk.
- Glossary - Common terms used when talking about Bitmunk.
Open Source Software at Digital Bazaar
Digital Bazaar is run on opensource software: Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Python, and Debian are but a few of the opensource stacks that we use to run the various websites and services that the company operates. We try to give back to the community when possible and the following is a list of opensource software that we provide for non-commercial use, including hobbyists, students, universities, charities, non-profit institutions and other not-for-profit groups. Generous licenses are available for start-ups and separate licenses are available for commercial use.
General
- Open Source Projects - Philosophy on Open Source Software at Digital Bazaar.
- Mailing Lists - Mailing lists that are used by the community to discuss digital content distribution issues.
- IRC - Internet Relay Chat channel for live community discussion.
Digital Bazaar Core
Bitmunk Transaction Platform
Microformats and RDFa
- Intro to the Semantic Web - A short introduction to the semantic web.
- hAudio Microformat - hAudio is a simple, open, distributed format, suitable for embedding information about audio recordings in (X)HTML, Atom, RSS, and arbitrary XML. The hAudio microformat was authored by Digital Bazaar with a great deal of help from the Microformats community. hAudio is one of several microformat open standards.
- hAudio RDFa - A mapping of the hAudio Microformat to RDFa.
- Firefox Operator Extensions - Extensions to Firefox Operator, a tool that displays the semantic data in a web page. The extensions enable the hAudio markup of music in web pages (using either Microformats or RDFa).
- Creating the hAudio Community-supported Microformat using RDFa - A journey in creating a community-supported semantic data format for music for the Firefox and Songbird web browsers.
- hMedia Microformat - A microformat for describing pieces of media on a web page. This is useful for search applications that need to find particular pieces of media in a website, such as songs, video and meta-data associated with each.
- Microformalyze - A website analysis tool that is most useful when attempting to discover a common semantic vocabulary among a group of websites. If you are interested in creating a new Microformat, this tool is for you!
- Mapping Microformats to RDFa - This is an in depth explanation of how one maps all of the popular Microformats to RDFa and RDFa to Microformats.
- Practical Web Semantics - An in depth video guide to practical web semantics and the technologies currently in use (filmed April 28th, 2008).
Starfish Distributed Filesystem
- Starfish Distributed Filesystem - The Starfish distributed filesystem. Starfish is designed to scale to multiple petabytes worth of storage without having single point of failure. The filesystem is highly-available even in the case of numerous metadata node and storage peer failures.
- Starfish Software Download - Download the Starfish software and source code.
- Starfish QuickStart Tutorial - The quickstart tutorial is a very short tutorial that will help you get a Starfish filesystem configured and operational in 5 minutes.
- Starfish System Manual - A manual specifying how to setup and use Starfish in a live deployment.
- Starfish Frequently Asked Questions - Common questions asked about the Starfish filesystem.
- Starfish Filesystem License - The terms and conditions with which Starfish is distributed. Source code is available for download, modification and redistribution. Use of the system is free for up to 1TB of total storage. You can also evaluate the system for up to a total of 3 months with no restriction on filesystem size.
