Towards public broadcast 2.0.: BBC Creative Archive

Broadcast and aggregation in BBC

In distributed systems, where multi-party communication is essential, two communication paradigms are ever present: (1) one-to-many, commonly denoted as broadcast; and (2) many-to-one denoted as aggregation or collection. In this paper we present the BBC process calculus, which inherently models the broadcast and aggregation communication modes. We then apply this process calculus to reason on ...

Identifying contributors in the BBC world service archive

In this paper we describe the speaker identification feature of the BBC World Service Archive prototype, an experiment run by BBC R&D to investigate alternative ways of publishing large radio archives. This feature relies on diarization of individual programmes, supervector-based speaker models, crowdsourcing for speaker identities, and a fast distributed index based on Locality Sensitive Hashi...

Towards More Creative Case-

Case-based reasoning (CBR) has a great deal to offer in supporting creative design, particularly processes that rely heavily on previous design experience, such as framing the problem and evaluating design alternatives. However, most existing CBR systems are not living up to their potential. They tend to adapt and reuse old solutions in routine ways, producing robust but uninspired results. Lit...

The Bbc Archive Post-jimmy Savile: Irreparable Damage or Recoverable Ground?

Public Sector and Globalization: Towards New public Management

Running public service organizations that is used in government and public service institutions and agencies, at both sub-national and national levels is a major area of research in public policy in the era of globalization. Thus, the aim of this paper is to probe relationships between new public management and the process of globalization. It argues that the emergence of NPM is the consequence...