Scald is a different take on how to handle media (audio, video, image or otherwise) in Drupal and beyond. it is a platform which is designed to make it extremely easy to implement the social features which are so essential -- and so unique -- to web communities. Additionally, Scald -- in tandem with the DnD module -- provides a novel and natural way for users to compose complex posts. Scald is Content, Attribution, Licensing, and Distribution (or Scald is a Contrived Acronym by Lazy Developers, take your pick). Scald provides a standardized mechanism for manipulating various types of media. Users can specify licensing on their uploaded media, re-use it for themselves, offer it to others for re-use and track all of those interactions without interfering with any other Drupal functionality.
France Culture, France Inter, FIP are production sites running Scald. The rich media editing is only available to internal contributors though.
If you want to try out the UI for yourself, there is a demo site available. You can then check the How To if you want to install it on your site.
Scald is developed by Open Web Solutions, sponsored by Radio France. Initial development supported in part by the Chicago Technology Cooperative.
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- Maintenance status: Actively maintained
- Development status: Under active development
- Module categories: Community, Content, Content Display, Media
- Reported installs: 16 sites currently report using this module. View usage statistics.
- Last modified: August 26, 2011
