Some installations are designed for members of the public to interact with them, for instance asking the public to use a specific hashtag when posting about a big event, and then displaying their post as part of the installation. Although the functionality appears simple, there are many nuances which must be considered: for instance, how should content be moderated? What happens if someone posts in a different language? Can a record of displayed posts be kept?
Social media aggregation companies such as walls.io provide an API which can be used to retrieve posts which have been moderated. Calvitia has implemented this API, and used it to download image and text content, register in a database, and re-render images suitable for subsequent use by a media server.
Implementations typically also need to consider media lifecycle management, for instance deleting older posts from the system in order to free up storage space. Our database implementation makes this process easy to manage.
Each installation will have vastly differing requirements, and hence there is no “one size fits all” solution available. However our previous experience and API support means that we can design a customised solution for your requirements.