Metadata: Making an Impact Beyond the Television Archive

Laura Williams – Media Manager, BBC Archives

How do you find what you are looking

for amongst over a million hours of TV &

Radio content?

BBC Archives

Media Management

Three Types of Metadata

The Impact of Metadata?

Cataloguing, tagging, logging and adding

information to manage assets and facilitate re-

use

Metadata Workflow

Roll Numbers

Camera Clip Names

PRODUCTION

POST-PRODUCTION

(EDIT)

Ingest Forms with metadata

BACK UP

UID Log

LTO Logs

DELIVERY

TV Metadata Workflow

TX Form

Technical Metadata

PasC Form

ARCHIVE

Fabric

Snippets

Media manager back up media

to LTO

Production log rushes for edit

Metadata for programme

delivery

Automated Data and

Cataloguing

Logging

PRODUCTION LIBRARY

Rushes selections

library

Catalogued local library

Billing Form

OTHER PLATFORMS

BBC WebsiteRadio Times

EPGiPlayer

Roll Numbers

ProductionMetadata

Production Metadata:

Ingest Forms

Rushes Library Metadata

Archive Metadat

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Archive Metadata: Fabric

(The BBC Archive Catalogue)

Archive Metadata: Snippets (a digital repository

for programmes, can be searched by subtitles)

Role of the Media Manager

Involved in the capture of metadata from the point of

content creation.

Information gathering to

support content management and

re-use

Future Developments in TV & Radio

Metadata

Final Thoughts…

Fitas VHS 1: https://flic.kr/p/6JGJ8a

Classic OPTE Project Map of the Internet 2005: https://flic.kr/p/6iZZG1

Hard Drive Repair: https://flic.kr/p/iNmvEe

Film Reel: BBC Copyright Image

Television Media Management Awareness Event: BBC Copyright Image

The Route to Open Data: https://flic.kr/p/db38ak

Drop Impact: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2006-01-28_Drop-impact.jpg

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