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 Building Innovative Tools and Workflow Solutions
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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
Contents
1 Framing the problem
2 Raw unformatted and unstructured data
3 Record structured data
4 Object modeling your data
5 Data exchange formats
6 Problems with conversion
7 Interfaces and APIs
8 Unicode and other code sets
9 Scripting layers
10 Dynamic content creation
11 Time
related data – calendars and schedules
12 People related data – addresses and CRM
13 2D Spatial data – location maps
14 3D models, data
and space
15 Motion related data – animation
16 UNIX command line tools
17 Power tools (Perl, Python, Expect, Tcl)
18 Compiled language
tools (C, C+, Java, Objective-C)
19 XML based tools and processes
20 GUI tools and processes
21 Automation with AppleScript
22 Automation
with Windows Script Host
23 Automation with shell scripts
24 Building tools
25 Building workflows
26 Adding intelligence and metrics
to the tools
27 Rights issues and protecting your data
28 Lateral thinking – using applications in new ways
Part 2 The toolset examples
(30 to 50 tools)
A UNIX tool quick reference
B AppleScript quick reference
C Code sets
D Relevant standards
E RFC documents
Glossary
Bibliography
Webliography
Index
Bibliographic & ordering Information
Hardbound, 544 pages, publication date: FEB-2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-240-80869-7
ISBN-10: 0-240-80869-X
Imprint: FOCAL PRESS
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GBP 37.99
USD 59.95
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Last update: 12 Jun 2008
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