1 Digital Memories Software Jim Gemmell Digital Memories (Memex) Workshop 7/19/2006

Jim Gemmell – Digital Memories (Memex) Workshop - 7/19/06 2 What’s in the kit SenseCam SenseCam software: upload wizard, (non-database) viewer inc. movie creation. for Digital Memories Software Includes a (database-based) SenseCam viewer

Jim Gemmell – Digital Memories (Memex) Workshop - 7/19/06 3 Connect Site  Latest version of Digital Memories software.  Updated version of SenseCam upload/viewer.  SenseCam demo data (photos, sensor date + GPS).  Sample code for extending the Digital Memories software.  Tips, e.g. upgrade problems: Uninstall a previous release Remove any Digital Memories services

Jim Gemmell – Digital Memories (Memex) Workshop - 7/19/06 4 Running in the background  NTFS file system promotion service (fswatch.exe)  Local Web Service" (mlbwww.exe)  PersonalVibe (in startup group)  Outlook toolbar watching your , contacts etc.  IE toolbar capturing web pages

Jim Gemmell – Digital Memories (Memex) Workshop - 7/19/06 5 dmInfo

Jim Gemmell – Digital Memories (Memex) Workshop - 7/19/06 6 NTFS Sync Controller  Don’t need to run SenseCam import if you are watching the folder tree

Jim Gemmell – Digital Memories (Memex) Workshop - 7/19/06 7 VIBE log viewer

Jim Gemmell – Digital Memories (Memex) Workshop - 7/19/06 8 DEMO: did you know you can…?  IE: common pages, next/prev in history  Outlook: click for log, pause button, launch shell  SenseCam Viewer  Trip Replay  Shell: drag & drop photos onto map, sort web pages by time spent

Jim Gemmell – Digital Memories (Memex) Workshop - 7/19/06 9 Creating new item types  Award for first new item type goes to Michael Shoffner from UNC: “Inserted context items show up in the shell and work with full text search!” -- SQL to add a new type to Digital Memories for context snapshots from CAF -- These items are inserted by a trigger on the _Items table whenever a modification or creation of an item occurs. -- Create a table to hold context data create table Context_Snapshots (item_id uniqueidentifier NOT NULL, Snapshot varchar(max)) GO -- add a primary key constraint ALTER TABLE [dbo].[Context_Snapshots] ADD CONSTRAINT [PK_Context_Snapshots] PRIMARY KEY NONCLUSTERED ([item_id]) GO -- add a foreign key reference to enforce that no Snapshot can exist without a corresponding _Item ALTER TABLE [dbo].[Context_Snapshots] ADD CONSTRAINT [FK_ContextSnapshot_Items] FOREIGN KEY ([item_id]) REFERENCES [dbo].[_Items] ([item_id]) GO exec _Init_CreateSubType 'CEC5651C-AE0E-494E B6654C9441', 'Context_Snapshots' GO -- sp to delete a context item create procedure uniqueidentifier AS delete from Context_Snapshots where item_id …

Jim Gemmell – Digital Memories (Memex) Workshop - 7/19/06 10 My questions for you  Is anyone planning on extending the shell with a new visualization?  We want to hold a workshop for the final results of your workshop: When should it be? How long should it be? (is one day enough?)  What is the most important feature missing from the software right now?

Jim Gemmell – Digital Memories (Memex) Workshop - 7/19/06 11 Questions?