Connecting Broadcast TV and the Web
Libby Miller has written an excellent post on the NoTube blog describing some of the things Project Baird and NoTube have been collaborating on. It’s a bit technical in places, but hopefully you’ll be able to get an idea of what’s been going on and some of the exciting things it makes possible.
NoTube is an EU-funded project exploring applications of social and semantic TV. The NoTube Partners include the BBC, the Open University, IRT, VU Amsterdam, and Ontotext.
Project Baird is a collaborative project open to all interested parties seeking to build on (wherever possible) existing specifications in order to provide building blocks for “next-generation” TV, most notably “connected TVs” and second-screen applications.
Project Baird and NoTube have been collaborating in this area over the course of the last few months, as part of NoTube’s WP7c workpackage, developing specifications and complementary (and sometimes competing!) prototypes.
I want to stress that this is very much early days — what Libby’s described in her post is (for want of a better term) early proof-of-concept work. From the point of view of Project Baird, this helps tremendously in creating better, realistic, specifications. I can’t speak for anybody else, of course, but I’m extremely happy that we’ve been able to collaborate in this — open — fashion on what promises to be a very exciting area of broadcasting technology.
Special thanks to Libby Miller, Dan Brickley, Vicky Buser, Michael Sparks and Andrew McParland for their parts in making this work as well as it has so far. Thanks also to the various people and organisations (some of them quite familiar by now!) involved in RadioDNS, and of course everybody else who’s contributed ideas and feedback, via NoTube, Project Baird, the BBC and other organisations in various capacities.
This will probably be the last post on this for a while from me as I focus on the actual work, but I’d encourage anybody with an interest in this area to join the mailing list and keep an eye on the NoTube blog.
