By
Cliff Wootton, Cliff Wootton was the technical systems architect in the BBC News Interactive TV group. This team pioneered the "News Loops" service,
which was nominated for a BAFTA Technology award and has won a Royal Television Society Award for Technical Innovation. His current research
projects are investigating new ways to build interactive content creation tools for the emerging IPTV platforms.
Description
With the explosion of new audio and video content on the Web, it’s more important than ever to use accurate and comprehensive metadata
to get the most out of that content. Developing Quality Metadata is an advanced user guide that will help you improve your metadata by
making it accurate and coherent with your own solutions. This book is designed to get you thinking about solving problems in a proactive
and productive way by including practical descriptions of powerful programming tools and user techniques using several programming languages.
For example, you can use shell scripting as part of the graphic arts and media production process, or you can use a popular spreadsheet
application to drive your workflow. The concepts explored in this book are framed within the context of a multimedia professional working
on the Web or in broadcasting, but they are relevant to anyone responsible for a growing library of content, be it audio-visual, text,
or financial.
Audience:
Target readers are mid-to-expert users who can cope with highly distilled content. Professions of the audience include, but are not limited
to:
- Broadcast engineers developing master control systems that use web services- Web site
support engineers- Web developers in media companies supplying information services- Interactive TV feed
aggregators- Newsroom systems engineers designing information - Multimedia architects and content aggregators
