This week's featured project is ABC-IP, a two year collaborative research project, part funded by the Technology Strategy Board, examining ways to automatically link together different sources of metadata around large video and audio collections.

One particularly interesting dataset we have access to is the entire World Service audio archive. This spans several decades, and consists of about 26,000 hours (three years in total) of audio content.

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This week Sean, Dan and Chris Lowis have been busy preparing for next week's European Broadcasting Union Radio Week. Following our work on the RadioTAG specification and its success last year at the Radio Academy Awards there is considerable interest in the broadcasting community about what RadioTAG can do for listeners and broadcasters, and how engineers can go about working with and contributing to this new standard for radio interactivity.

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Welcome to issue 94 of our team's weeknotes. 94, of course, is the atomic number of Plutonium, but also the identifier of U.S. Customs and Border Protection's form for which first question has had me pondering the meaning of “moral turpitude” for the past ten years or so.

This week's featured project is NoTube a 13-partner EU-funded research project about the future of Web and TV, which came to a formal end this week after three years. It involved collaborations with other broadcasters, universities, and small and large companies in Europe and Korea. 

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