At 11:15 15/09/2005 +0100, you wrote:
At 18:32 14/09/2005 +0100, you wrote:
Some bug fixes and modifications have been made to the data set - these
are outlined below.
2. When audio description is being provided for a programme, this is
indicated with an extra AudioAtrributes entry with an AudioLanguage
purpose of type 1 (Audio description for the visually impaired):
<AudioAttributes>
<NumOfChannels>1</NumOfChannels>
<AudioLanguage purpose='urn:tva:metadata:cs:AudioPurposeCS:2004:1'>E
N-UK</AudioLanguage>
</AudioAttributes>
<delurk> Ahh - this reminds me of something I meant to ask ! </delurk>
From other interest areas, I know the Beeb are involved in the W3C "Timed
Text" initiative. I think one of the contacts is David Kirby in the RD
section of BBC.
For those of you who don't know, this is an XML format for storing
"subtitles" or "captions" (if you're in the USA).
So here's a thought : Supposing each broadcast program is subtitled - most
are, to meet disability guidelines for deaf viewers. How about publishing
the subtitle files as part of backstage, in W3C TT format (maybe in the
final draft format until the complete spec is ratified).
Then in the TV data feeds, publish a linkage to the subtitle file. So,
not actually embedded in the TV data feeds, but as a separate dataset. Now
we'd have something similar to the google video and "Blinkx" text searches.
I do this on my Captionkit website, but of course it's a manual process to
enter the captions in the editor.
As the BBC already pay people to create and store this data, it's
definitely available and I think it would be a massive benefit to publish
it. If you did that I'd for-sure drum up a demo project in under a week
(probably a PHP API) to make use of those, and link a subtitle search to
program information for repeats etc.
Food for thought ?
It's an excellent idea, and technically quite possible.The big hurdle
unfortunately is rights.
Obviously, a broadcaster wouldn't publish subtitles for programmes that
haven't been shown yet - the tabloid press would have a field day
publishing the plot of EastEnders days before it's broadcast!
After/during broadcast? Definitely technically possible and has already
been demonstrated on both pre-recorded and live output, but at the moment
the rights to do so are prohibitive for a public service.
Hywel
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