Title: Department of Computer Science Seminar
Date: Tue, April 23, 2002
Time: 11:00 am to 12:00pm
Venue: Room N101, CSIT Building [108]
Speaker: Tom Worthington (Visiting fellow at DCS,  ANU)
Description: "Metadata for Digital Television"

                                    Abstract


A brief overview of a metadata standard for digital TV is provided. Tom 
argues existing digital broadcasting has a failed business model, as it 
ignores what the audience wants most: control. Metadata has provided a 
hidden "killer application" on the Internet and could be used to transform
digital broadcasting into a viable service. An overview will be given of 
the Australian Creative Resources Archives (ACRA), a nationally 
distributed, standardised, high-bandwidth digital archive proposed to
makes 
"waste" materials from Australian cultural production processes available 
to researchers, the education sector more generally, and to commercial 
content developers. Metadata aspects of the project are discussed.

This seminar is a technical preview of a presentation for the Australian 
Broadcasting Authority 2002 Conference "What Will Australian Audiences 
Want?", 29-30 April 2002 in Canberra: http://www.tomw.net.au/2002/mka.html

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URL: http://cs.anu.edu.au/lib/seminars/seminars02/dept20020423

Biography: Tom Worthington is a Visiting Fellow at DCS and an IT
Consultant