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This
site gives an in-depth introduction to the topics of navigation and
supply of schedule metadata, both of which are strong work areas
within BBC Research & Development.
The long
term aim of this work is to enable the audience to acquire the
BBC's content with ease, whilst trying to maintain open standards
to encourage market solutions where applicable. |
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| Attacting audiences |
Accurate recording |
Technology |
| Here we explain how we support searching,
what kind of information we publish, work we are doing to support DVRs
(aka PVRs),
schedule navigation, BBC-specific issues, what platforms our information
supports,
and how we have engineered a system that can change rapidly to
deal with proposition changes. |
With the growth of recording devices that can use
broadcast metadata to schedule and time recordings, supplying accurate
data is paramount. This section highlights how we ensure accuracy in our
metadata by detailing the issues of time versus ID-based recording, connectivity
with automation systems, how we identify programmes, when we generate updates
and how we manage our operational control to ensure at an editorial level
that the information is accurate. |
BBC R & D has exemplified use
of demanding innovative technology to create the SID system and its new
update, SID 3. This section
gives an overview of the inputs and outputs, formatting issues in business
to business communications, how we enable collaborative working, how we
use middleware to our advantage, lessons we've learnt in migrating from
a legacy system, how we efficiently represent schedules in hierarchies,
how we facilitate cross-platform authoring, what we need to do to add TV-Anytime
concepts, our work on SI Architecture, our software development processes
and our work to develop and promote the use of open standards. |
| People |
Future |
Contacts |
| Key to any enterprise is communication between different
people and groups of people. This section explains the business processes
and working practices around metadata in the BBC, the EPG Unit's work,
the external organisations we work with, how we facilitate collaborative
working between people, and who our other BBC partners are. |
Looking to the future, we are investigating which
new propositions we need to add into the system, how to make trailer selection
work, how to improve the BBC's business processes by encouraging metadata
to be supplied by programme makers at the earliest stages of content creation,
and the practical issues of deploying TV-Anytime, |
Names and addresses for further information. |
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