Mesilinka Films are creating a digital archive for the Tsay Keh Dene (People of the Mountain) First Nation of British Columbia and needed to get it online. They wanted the video to be of the highest quality, wanted it to be easily searchable, and because we are dealing with thousands of media items they wanted to be able to bulk upload using spreadsheets to map out metadata.

How we at Launch Brigade solved the problem for them was a combination of platforms working together. For the media conversion and storage we went with AWS, and the front end WordPress.

Mesilinka uploads media and a spreadsheet to an S3 bucket. Using Lambda we kick off some functions. The media gets automatically processed in a wide range of formats and qualities for streaming. All the info then gets passed to WordPress through a custom API and creates posts with the relevant categories, tags and thumbnails.

In WordPress I built a front-end that uses the meta data to allow you to search and filter through thousands of items, through a grid or a map. I also designed the theme in a way to allow easy changing of branding.