Metadata, AI and automated workflows: Vendors' news tech plans

Back at IBC2017 there were three workflow demos of the DPP News Exchange project promoting the sharing of metadata, and this vital work has now arrived at prototype mode, with the prospect of publication in early April along with implementation guidance. The drivers of this project are the BBC, ITV, ITN, Sky, C5, Thomson Reuters, Sony, Avid, Telestream, Scisys, IPTC, and SAM (now Grass Valley). Confirming that a compliance program will also follow publication, Andy Wilson, DPP Head of Business Development and Delivery says: "News Exchange will enable the efficient movement of story metadata from the newsroom out to the reporter and cameraman in the field. "They record their video clips, and with that video file it will then send the metadata from the newsroom, now augmented with data from the camera and in an XML file, to be imported back into the newsroom. "This means the metadata with the story will pass with the video throughout the chain. There are immediate benefits to journalists like less tagging," he adds.