The British Internet Broadcasting Company (BiBC) has announced plans to launch an online digital distribution service for content owners such as libraries and universities, writes Daniel Griffin.
Currently it is still standard practice for libraries to circulate their content material in hard copy formats, including video tape or DVD. This process can be costly and time consuming for both the organisation and the users but until recently they have had little choice.
Demand for more audio and visual resources in addition to traditional forms of paper-based information is on the increase, as modern students and researchers look to use video archives as original source material.
Paul Hague, Managing Director of BiBC told IWR “it astonishes me that in the digital age in which we live, content owners are still distributing broadcast material manually, spending a fortune on transport costs, when the process lends itself to digitisation.”
ReelMaster, based on BiBC’s MediaMaster technology is intended to be a managed service solution; the service provides the process of digitising content as well as the web-based delivery and payment method. For researchers the relevant information is immediately accessible and searchable through the website without depending on the postal service. Content can then be accessed through a variety of hardware ranging from a fixed multi-media base or mobile devices.
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