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Kendall Clark <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
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Package: Monkeyfist Media Tools
System name: media-tools
This package does NOT want to apply for inclusion in the GNU project

My project will provide Web-based software (using Webware and
Python and Apache) to manage text-based document collections; to
analyze the contents of these text collections, which will consist
of corporate media articles; to track the spread of \"memes\" in
corporate media articles; to sort, track, categorize pull-quotes
from these articles.

Parts of the project include:

 * Archive -- identify relevant URIs and archive
   their content
 
 * Search -- full-text search of the archive 

 * Track -- browse coverage by 1) issue, 2) event, 3) publication,
   4) author, 5) chronology, 6) (other metadata)

 * Memewatch -- One of the conceptual claims behind this project is
   that, given the ideological and economic structure of corpo media,
   there are a relatively small number of claims that *can* be made
   about any particular issue, for example, antiglobalization. This
   means tracking the continuities and the changes can be a powerful
   tool. 

 * Memespread -- This is a cross between a chronological view of a
   subset of the archive and a \"meme\" view; that is, tracking the
   first and earliest occurrences of a \"meme\", how use of the meme
   spreads, etc. 

 * Talking Points -- High-quality responses to memes, which people
     can use in their activism.

 * Pull Quotes -- We need to be able to say of a resource that there
     are zero, one, or more \"notable quotes\" and here they are. 

 * A metadata scheme -- I\'ll steal from a combo of NITF and NewsML,
     plus Dublin Core.

 * an RDF/RSS syndication model