Developing Quality Metadata

Part 1

Introduction

“How to Bash the Bits and Beat the Bytes into Shape”

Data and metadata drives the TV production and broadcast scheduling systems. Metadata helps to manage content and when you examine a broadcast infrastructure, a lot of what is happening is to do with the manipulation of nonvideo data formats. Interactive TV and digital text services also require data in large quantities. Managing it, cleaning it, routing it to the correct place at the right time and in the right format are all issues that are familiar to data management professionals inside and outside the media industry.

While I wrote this book, I spent a little time working with some developers who build investment-banking systems. Interestingly they face identical problems ...