Participatory Culture Foundation

October 25th:

Yesterday, we made a significant update to Amara, including a number of bug fixes and a new infrastructure setup that makes Amara much more robust in case of AWS failures.  As part of the update, we re-index all the videos in the system.  Last night during the update we had a few video indexing issues, which may have made it seem like videos disappeared from your team. We attempted to repair this last night, but need to make some additional changes before the repair is complete.

Thanks for the explanation, Jules. Do you have a time line for the completion of the repair?

In case this can be of help:

• The Captions Requested team's home page still says the team has 26 videos, but only shows the one added yesterday. You can find the names of the missing ones from the titles of posts tagged CR in the titles of threads tagged CR in the Universal Subtitles Deaf & Hard of Hearing Discussion Google group. Each thread contains the URL of the Amara video. There are 2 extra threads: one for the announcement of the group, one for an Amara video page that has since been deleted because the YT original was.
  
  
• The Music Captioning team's home page is still missing the videos added between "I Saved The World Today" Eurythmics from their performance as friends of Pavarotti and Muse - Feeling Good (Video). Their titles can be found from the threads tagged notlisted-oct25 in the MusicCaptioning Google group (again, with the Amara video's URL in each thread).

Best,

 

Claude

 

Update: (Oct 26, 3 pm CET). Evertything is fine now in the Music Captioning and Captions Requested teams: the videos that flew the coop yesterday have come back to roost.