Putting BBC’s Archives Online Part 2

Part 2 of a series on engineers studying the feasibility of putting the humongous BBC archive online.

This is on the importance of metadata…The metadata, which would be transmitted with the programme, also included hyperlinked text that can be wrapped round still and moving images.

If and when screens become as pleasant to read as paper, this could lead to a form of multimedia ‘book’ that exploits the different strengths of text, audio and video.

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