Technology Making It Into Production

Learning technology standardization: Making sense of it all

In this paper, we analyze the role of technical standards in the domain of learning technology, focusing on the way they enable interoperability. We briefly explain some of the alternatives to open and accredited standards and how they impact on the community. The standardization process is analyzed in some detail and the most relevant organizations involved are briefly surveyed. We provide an ...

A Distributed Programme-making Environment Using It-based Technology

The BBC's ORBIT project is investigating the scalable application of mass-market IT equipment to distributed television production. A set of inter-connected production, archive and playout networks is being developed. CORBA object middleware is used to provide studio services to desktop applications. Example services are material intake and replay, content storage and metadata searching. A prot...

Making waves: Urban technology and the co-production of place

Over the past several years, as cities in the United States have faced increasing fiscal pressures, there has been a reinvigorated interest in the promise of smart cities, intelligent cities, digital cities, open source cities and media cities, which advocate the use of digital technologies to make cities more efficient, productive, innovative and attractive. However, the appropriation and use ...

Incorporating Self-Serve Technology into Co-Production Designs

Co-production, which is the direct involvement of customers in the design, delivery, and marketing of goods and services that they themselves consume, implies customer-firm collaboration. The nature of this collaboration, however, is highly dependent on the organization’s service design, which increasingly includes Internetbased self-serve technology (SST). While there is considerable research ...

Positioning an Innovative Flame-weeding Technology Into Crop Production