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09/13/2006, 10:45 AM - 11:30 AM
Speaker:
Stephen A. Craig, Broadcast Executive, BBC Northern Ireland.
The BBC and the Belfast eScience Centre conducted a 2-year research project commencing in 2003 on the application of Grid computing for the media industry focusing on the services to support a Broadcast infrastructure for television transmission. The BBC, along with other media organisations is migrating to a tape-less, file based broadcast infrastructure with distributed sites and resources. In a tapeless, file based broadcast infrastructure the timely processing and delivery of content both internally to the BBC and externally for public access to the BBC archive is a high priority. There are many issues around performance and utilisation of resources necessary to deliver these services, especially in an organisation that requires a scalable, resilient and flexible infrastructure to meet a rapidly evolving business model.
The first project, Gridcast based upon GT4 tools, explored the issues of managing large datasets (content) around the enterprise of the BBC. Areas such as security, Quality of service and transparency to Broadcasting standards have been explored. Particular focus was placed upon the automated workflow based management and repurposing of content for distribution to the viewing audience as well as internal production areas.
The BBC has recently commenced a second project with a specific focus on the deployment of a pilot system to manage and deliver content to a range of consumer platforms using Grid services for the automation of workflow and content repurposing. Building upon the experiences learned in Gridcast our objectives include the delivery of content to consumers via broadband and other organisations in a B2B framework.
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