Tech Papers 2021: This paper shows how BBC uses metadata, AI, and Object-Based Media to segment linear programmes into stories, enabling search, personalisation, and interactive experiences.
Abstract
This paper describes a collaboration between BBC News and BBC Research & Development which is exploring ways of using the BBC’s linear programme output and associated production metadata, along with artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques, to segment the programmes into individual stories. These segments can then be used to provide chapterised versions of the linear output, make individual stories findable by search and available as items on web pages. Ultimately, by using Object Based Media (OBM) techniques these stories can be recombined to provide personalised and/or interactive experiences.
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