Hyper video media API

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Idea

• by BigBlueHat

We’ve filmed REST Fest talks since nearly the beginning—professionally for the last 3 years. Because of that, we’ve got quite a collection. It currently lives at http://videos.restfest.org/ which is just a Vimeo channel page for the previous year. Finding content is a fiddly, error prone process of searching all of Vimeo and usually coming up short.

What better way to fix it than to have ~50 people spend a full day creating a set of microservices, APIs, and clients to work together to build a new videos.restfest.org—complete with hypermedia hot sauce. 😸

User Stories

As a REST developer, I want...

• to find content by
  • topic
  • presenter
  • year
  • project mentioned / demo'd
• to keep lists of videos to
  • watch later
  • share with friends
• to view lists
  • other people have made
  • auto-generated from "find" criteria
• to add comments
  • about the whole video
  • about portions of the video
• to add related content / links
  • about the whole video
  • about the related topic
  • about portions of the video
• to confirm that I am the presentor
  • so that
    • my comments, links, etc get "promoted" / highlighted

Requirements

Server:

• MUST
  • use one (or more) Hypermedia media type
  • use the Vimeo API (or HTML) to extract or wrap the existing collection
  • use simple / cheap hosting
• SHOULD
  • implement a standard feed one (or more) feed formats (Atom, Activity Streams 2.0) for
    • search results
    • lists
    • main list / index
• MAY
  • provide full text search of descriptions
  • provide Clarify API integration
  • provide an HTML5 video viewer (for future hosting on other static or NoSQL hosting)