02 · Planting a saber

A well planted seed: in the right place, with a name, and with someone who knows where it came from.

Where to start

There are three doors for creating a saber:

• ☰ → Create saber, in the menu;
• the + new media button in the Archive (or + new article on the Blog, + new event in the Agenda);
• from your phone, sending a photo to the bot (chapter 09).

The form, from top to bottom

Type (nature). For photos, videos, audio and documents, use media. For text, article (chapter 03). For gatherings, event (chapter 05). The mucua may have other types created by the community, with their own fields.

Galaxy and mucua. Which archive the saber goes into. The mucua is always yours — the saber is born here and travels later.

Title. The saber's name. Next to it is Writing in: the language you are writing in. It starts with the website's language; change it if you are going to write in another one. This way Baobáxia knows which language the text is in, and translations are added next to it later (chapter 04).

Additional details. Opens the description (a few lines: who, where, when, why), the licence and appears in — which apps show the saber (archive, blog, agenda, map). The default comes from the type.

Tags. Labels to find things later. Start typing and Baobáxia suggests the ones the community already uses.

Territory. Which place the saber belongs to (optional).

Location. Tick the box and pick the spot on the map: the saber shows up in the Map app.

Protection. Who can read it:

• Public — everyone who uses the mucua;
• Restricted — only the people and groups you choose as readers (plus whoever published and whoever administers);
• Encrypted — restricted, and the content is stored encrypted: only the readers can open it, even if someone copies the files.

Visibility. Who sees the saber listed: public (anyone), network (only people with an account), this mucua only or private (only its creator and the mucua's pajés). You can change it later in the editor; a private saber shows a Publish notice on its page.

Files. Click choose files… (or drag the files onto the button). You can choose more than once: they add up to the list. Before creating, you can reorder them — by the ⠿ handle or the ↑ ↓ arrows — and remove one with the ✕. The first becomes the cover. The files only upload when you click Create saber (a yellow notice reminds you). For each file you get:

• a caption (optional) — one sentence about that photo or that excerpt;
• on video and audio, transcribe — asks the network for a mucua with automatic transcription to listen to the speech and make the subtitles;
• on an image of a document, recognise text (OCR) — asks a mucua with OCR to read the text in the image.

These requests travel through the network: a mucua that has the tool does it on its next round (about 20 minutes, if it is switched on) and the result comes back as an attachment. Your mucua doesn't need anything installed.

Automatic transcription and text (optional) — the audio's language and a vocabulary (names of people, places, songs: "Mestre Pastinha, Itapuã, ladainha"). It helps the machine a lot.

Click Create saber. Files upload with a progress bar; very large files get a warning first.

Editing

On the saber's page, Edit. The editor has the same fields and more:

• reorder the files by the ⠿ handle or the ↑ ↓ arrows (the first one is the cover) — new ones, marked "new · uploads on save", join the same list and can go anywhere, even to the cover spot;
• under file metadata, see what the camera or recorder wrote inside it (title, author, date, GPS location, keywords) and use it in the saber with one click;
• add or remove files;
• review and correct automatic subtitles — whatever you correct, the machine won't overwrite again;
• the language tabs for title, description and text (chapter 04);
• copy or move the saber to another galaxy.

Every save goes into the History: you can see what changed and go back.

Who can edit

Whoever published edits their own saber. So can: the people and groups set as the saber's editors, whoever looks after the mucua (PAJÉ) and whoever administers the galaxy (OXALÁ). Chapter 07 tells more.

Taking the data along

On the saber's page, next to the ↓ of each photo, audio, video or PDF, there is ↓ with data: it downloads the file with the saber's title, caption, author, license, tags, location and link written inside it — so when the photo travels outside Baobáxia, it carries where it came from. The date and author the camera had already written are kept. The file stored on the mucua doesn't change: it's a copy made on the spot.

Deleting

In the editor, at the bottom of the page. If the saber is in more than one galaxy, Baobáxia asks which one to delete it from — or all of them. The heavy file doesn't vanish from the disk right away (the network may still need it); whoever looks after the mucua frees the space later.

To talk about in the circle

• Before publishing someone's photo: do they know? Do they want to appear? Do they want their name in the caption?
• What vocabulary would the community put in the transcription so the machine gets local names right?