Due to its dynamic nature, the Web has been formed and shaped to the desires of its users. TV technology is not as dynamic as the Web and has kept its linear programming over the last decade, partially due to its business model where advertisements remain the most important source of income for commercial TV stations.
Why is this of interest to NoTube?
NoTube aims to translate features of the Web to TV, such as the personalised and community-based aspects. For this, there are two main research areas:
- URLs for TV
- APIs for TV
What NoTube has done so far in this area
The first year of the project was largely about determining what infrastructure was needed to start to build interesting television applications. The first of these was an open API to TV. The second was a means to link resolvable URLs with broadcast URLs. We have taken the TVDNS approach to this but there multiple others (including targeted autocomplete, which we have also implemented).
Future plans in NoTube
We will continue to explore APIs for TV, including scenarios from basic ‘remote control’, through personalisation and sharing, to the needs of new devices and interfaces (e.g. tablets, multi-touch tables).
Find out more
Related blog posts:
- http://blog.notube.tv/2010/11/22/epg-autocompleter/
- http://blog.notube.tv/2010/10/08/take-the-user-perspective-and-talk-about-what-we-learn/
- http://blog.notube.tv/2010/08/26/connecting-broadcast-tv-and-the-web-using-a-resolver/
Who’s involved? BBC, and Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, in collaboration with other NoTube project partners and with other projects.
Interested in collaborating with NoTube? Drop us a line and sign-up to our public mailing list (public-notube@few.vu.nl).
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