[kNews] Invite: Global Media Catalogue demonstrations...

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Dear All,

We have meetings planned for March, April and May. Please register via your 
personal quick links at the bottom of this email...
 

NEXT MEETING MONDAY 22 MARCH, CENTRAL LONDON
We'll be demonstrating the Global Media Catalogue concept. We'll have 
presentations from content publishers (Romek Szczesniak of Spiky Black Cat) 
and developers (Neil Harris, creator of Sohonet).
 

We invite content publishers that have a catalogue database and want to see 
the building of a demonstrator. We don't need huge catalogues - small is 
desirable at this stage. Of most interest is diversity of data about the 
content: what, where, when, how, who, timings, industry codes, etc.
 

We invite developers (business and software/technical) that grasp the 
concept and want to see it demonstrated.
 

THE FRUSTRATION RIGHT NOW
There are many legal websites/databases holding snippets of media catalogue 
but there is no way to easily search and query all these catalogues in one 
hit with results returned in a coherent and usable format (Google just 
doesn't cut it). We aim to change that.
 

FUNDAMENTAL KEY TO DRIVING ADOPTION
Make it easy - this means not forcing content publishers to adhere to a 
specific database structure but let us use our current structure, 
terminology and language and modify as we wish. This very much links in 
with W3C's (the creators of the web) vision of the semantic web which we 
will discuss in the meeting. We are very much not alone in wanting these 
things.
 

PLEASE HELP PUBLICISE THESE KENDRA INITIATIVE MEETINGS
Tell colleagues in the field. Or tell us about mailing lists we should be 
posting to. Or feel free to post to these yourself. All details can be 
found on the website here:
 
http://www.kendra.org.uk/meetings.php#future-meetings

NEXT MEETINGS
- Monday 22nd March - Charles Russell Solicitors, 8-10 New Fetter Lane, 
London, EC4A 1RS
 
-- Arrive 17:45 for a 18:00 start going on till 20:30

- Friday 2nd April - MILIA and MIPTV, Cannes. The Broadband Future 
Workshop
 

- Wednesday 28th April - Olswang, London, WC1V 6XX.

- Wednesday 19th May - Charles Russell, London, EC4A 1RS

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