Pacific Quay and around Scotland

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• Pacific Quay and around Scotland

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• THE VISION FOR THE PACIFIC QUAY PROJECT
• Deliver end to end digital production .
• Facilitate delivery of content to all platforms,
  television, radio and the web.
• Create great spaces for people to work in.
• Make the building open and accessible for our
  audiences.

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Supporting our Vision Public Spaces

• Building allows great visibility
• Open to the public café, exhibitions, events,
  programme making,
• Enhanced facilities for studio audiences.
• Learning Space

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Supporting our Vision Staff Spaces

• Workspaces designed to increase collaboration and
  inspire creativity
• Flexible, loose-fit layouts
• Opportunities to use the building as a backdrop
  for programmes - Reception and The Street
• General principle open-plan working and
  flexible use of workstations - no private
  offices
• Positioning and adjacencies very
• important

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THE TECHNOLOGY CHALLENGE

• To deliver the new technology, to enable staff to
  SHARE content across platforms, reversion
  material and enable better use of material for
  different outlets, and to enable desktop editing
  for all production users.
• Scale of the programme and complexity of
  interdependencies, avoiding and filling in the
  cracks
• Ambitious technology limited opportunities to
  pilot, test our assumptions, new workflows and
  ways of working together
• Challenging timescales alongside Business as
  Usual demands
• Getting resources at the right levels and quality
  to drive and manage the delivery of the
  technology.
• Number of suppliers involved in order to deliver
  what we required.

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JOINING UP DISPARATE TECHNOLOGIES

• The first challenge has been joining up so many
  different technologies and suppliers.
• Radio Content Production and Play out system
  VCSDira
• Television post production system Avid
• News wires scripting - ENPS
• Television Play-out system Omnibus
• MAM system Ardendo
• Storage system Hp solution supplied by Siemens

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THE METADATA CHALLENGE

• Consultation with staff across all genres and all
  sites
• Staff engagement to define this included
  understanding repetition of keying and the
  requirement for sharing content.
• Metadata models for radio , television, web and
  archiving.
• Production genre demands vs audience requirements
• Agreement across all areas of the business on
  minimum metadata sets
• What we capture and what we search for are often
  different
• Who owns the metadata.

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WORKFLOW CHALLENGES

• Understanding the current workflow to define the
  future
• Key relationships in the production workflow
  e.g. Digital Library
• Implementation of workflows interim,
  workarounds and future
• Multiple technology changes for many people to
  cope with at once achieving our end game will
  take a long time
• Changes the responsibilities and shifts the
  balance of power in subtle ways

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THE IMPACT ON THE INFORMATION ARCHIVES SERVICE

• Nearly everything has changed
• The systems we work with, no longer using text
  based cataloguing systems
• The people we work with, media managers are now
  based with production departments
• How we worked, importance of indexing and
  taxonomy management, archive selection decisions
  are made much earlier in the broadcast process.
• The volume of material we work with
• The skills we require

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Contact details

• Noreen Adams
• Head of Media Management
• Area 3.10 Pacific Quay
• Glasgow, Scotland
• G51 1DA
• noreen.adams_at_bbc.co.uk