For 25 yea r s, news has been an obvious
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a u to m ati on . Th e fundamen tal challenge of
n ews - getting hard info r m ation and sharing it
with all the people who need it - remains at
the ce n t re of sy stems design. D avid Cole,CEO
of IPV, re p o r t s.
N ext generat i o n
n ews syste m s
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oday the challenges for news platforms or to help you beat the a story played out in the past will
are greater, compounded by competition to the story. You have to illuminate a report. Having an
the two factors that do more with less. excellent searchable archive -
dominate everything in So the focus for technological searchable with intelligent algorithms
broadcasting: increased development has to provide support and immediately viewable at the
competition and reduced in a number of directions: desktop - is extremely important. But
b u d g e t s . • automating routine processes, getting access to current content has
In news, increased competition including transcoding and versioning. to be the top priority.
means more news specialists, each of • making it easy for journalists to tell As multiple feeds come into the
which is trying to win audience
David Cole, CEO of
the story. ingest server, a large number of users
IPV.
loyalty. While style and personality go • giving multiple users access to the - journalists, editors, producers,
some way to achieving that, the best latest content. loggers and archivists - need to have
way to gain and retain an audience is • eliminating bottlenecks to ensure immediate and simultaneous access.
by delivering authoritative news that speed is everything. Even if it was practical it would not be
content faster than your competition. There is no magic bullet, no single cost effective to give them all full
The delivery may be on a rolling news application that will solve all these resolution feeds, and so the browse
channel, to major bulletins on a mixed problems. So the next generation of resolution proxy has become a
channel, online, to mobile devices, news systems will need to standard part of any news application
and more. understand the overall requirements (gratifyingly, most supplied by IPV).
The impact of budget constraints is and, where necessary, provide fast, What is needed is a tight integration
that you cannot afford to add staff to
A screenshot of
secure and transparent between the online video server and
IPV’s Curator
serve all these extra delivery communications to ensure that each its full resolution content, the browse
system.
component works well with resolution server, the metadata which
everything else. is used to route the content, and the
Asset management is central to editorial systems. That is the core
everything in news. Many people, definition of an asset management
when the subject of asset system for news.
management is raised, will start to
talk about archives, but actually the B rowsing and editing
most important part of the equation is
the new content. Immediacy is Having defined speed to air as critical
everything: it is the latest reports for news, the first requirement of the
coming in that capture the essence of browse system is that it has to be fast.
the story. The content being ingested onto the
Yes, there will certainly be times main server has to be available across
when the ability to look back on how the network virtually immediately so
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