On Saturday the 17th March 2007 the first all-day Open Knowledge event is taking place in London's Limehouse Town Hall. This day will bring together individuals and groups from across the open knowledge spectrum and includes panels on open media, open geodata and open scientific and civic information. Zoe Young will be talking about the importance and progress of metadata standardisation from below through the Transmission network.
Why FOSS isn't on activist agendas Bruce Byfield, Wednesday December 13, 2006,
many excellent and practical proposals for next steps have been coming in.
we're collating responses here
what we need now is people willing and able variously to
1. draft some texts explaining the standard and why it is important in plain english (and other languages), to enable both fundraising and outreach
2. start to implement and test the proposed standard in real world cases (for example ifiwatch.tv, and generate any last practical suggestions, feedback etc.
3. organise all feedback to incorporate it where appropriate and the finalise standard, properly publicise and propagate it in required circles.
simon and I are meeting this week to look into raising more funds to pay for this work.
hello everybody I'd like to suggest that anyone interested to discuss the latest version of the proposed transmission [metadata standard] come into irc (irc freenode.net #transmission) this friday 17th nov. morning at ten am uk time, and again at the same time on monday. also do send any mails to the (metadata at transmission.cc) list feeding back on the new ideas and developments and proposing practical ways forward... if anyone is in a position to collate copies of irc logs that could be very helpful, so that any key points of discussion / agreement can be extracted and shared... or is there a more normal and effective way to document progress in this field?
due to lack of response about preferred dates, and no feedback yet from the proposed metadata standard's authors, we will have to try a new range of times for potential irc meeting times, please let me know as soon as you can which, if any you can do, and let's take it from there.
this would be an online meeting in irc.freenode.net, channel: transmission.cc. I hope it won't take more than an hour...
Option 1: 10 AM Friday in London
Sydney (Australia - New South Wales) Friday, November 17, 2006 at 9:00:00 PM
London (U.K. - England) Friday, November 17, 2006 at 10:00:00 AM UTC GMT
Los Angeles (U.S.A. - California) Friday, November 17, 2006 at 2:00:00
Option 2: 10 AM Monday in London
Sydney (Australia - New South Wales) Monday, November 20, 2006 at 9:00:00 PM
London (U.K. - England) Monday, November 20, 2006 at 10:00:00 AM
Monday 6th November 2006 is our latest deadline for responses, queries, suggestions etc on the initial proposed Metadata Standard for RDF in feed-based exchange of video information between and beyond the projects in the Transmission Network.
I'm writing about this one more time just because it is SO important, SO central to the real world potential of this network to get media where it's really wanted and needed.... and for it to happen, we need as many as possible of our projects' buy in from the start... and you've not all had your say as yet!
In case you think it's not important or not relevant to your project, here are some of the (slightly improved) IRC notes from the discussion of 'how we can work together as a network' session at Re:Transmission meeting in London last month
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hi there,
just throwing this out there as a question?
is this what we want to create? has the bcc done it for us?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/opensource/projects/tv_anytime_api/
TV-Anytime Java API Contact: Tristan Ferne Licence: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) TV-Anytime Java API
The BBC TV-Anytime Java API is for parsing, manipulating and creating TV-Anytime metadata. It is currently released under LGPL.
TV-Anytime is an open standard for metadata describing TV and radio programmes that is designed to support Personal Video Recoders (PVRs), programme guides and related technologies. The TV Anytime Forum is an association of organisations which seeks to develop specifications to enable audio-visual and other services based on mass-market high volume digital storage. For further information go to www.tv-anytime.org. The TV-Anytime specifications are published by ETSI as the TS 102 822 series and are available at the ETSI web site (http://www.etsi.org/)