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How metadata will drive content discovery for the Ö÷²¥´óÐã online
How metadata will be at the heart a new content discovery strategy.
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The lessons learnt creating a design system for Ö÷²¥´óÐã Online
Dave Morris and Josh Tumath explain the process for creating a new design system for the Ö÷²¥´óÐã's websites
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Designing Ö÷²¥´óÐã Search
Users frequently enter short and vague terms, which are often misspelt. If we could help users enter more accurate search terms then we would be able to give them much more useful and relevant results.
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Ö÷²¥´óÐã iPlayer Mobile and Tablet Apps updated
There have been times when as many as four different features were being worked on at the same time all hidden behind ‘flags’ in the code that prevented the end user from seeing them.
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Ö÷²¥´óÐã News linked data ontology
Ways that we can use linked data to help users discover relevant News stories quickly and easily on the Ö÷²¥´óÐã website.
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CPS Vivo: a new content management system for Ö÷²¥´óÐã streams
The principle behind Vivo is to build a lightweight responsive single page web application that is built on the cloud to support three key editorial workflows.
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Ö÷²¥´óÐã Sport App on Chromecast
After the success of the Chromecast integration in Ö÷²¥´óÐã iPlayer, we had a opportunity to take all of the multi-stream content from the Ö÷²¥´óÐã Sport website and provide our users with a new way of viewing this summer’s live sporting events on the big screen
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Ö÷²¥´óÐã Sounds app update: CarPlay, Android Auto & live track info
Dan Taylor-Watt explains the latest updates available on the Ö÷²¥´óÐã Sounds app.
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Designing Ö÷²¥´óÐã internal software tools: iSite and iBroadcast
Software design is complex. Even with a strong voice from the product owner, the detail around interaction patterns and behaviours can be lost-in-translation between Business Analyst, Designer, and Developer.
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Empowerment and disruption - our strategy and architecture teams discuss technology transformation
Highlights from a conference bringing together the Ö÷²¥´óÐã’s community of technical strategists and architectural practitioners.
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New Ö÷²¥´óÐã Research & Development website
We are releasing a beta version of the new Ö÷²¥´óÐã R&D website.
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Testing disks: Lessons from our odyssey selecting replacement SSDs
We operate a HTTP cache known as Radix. Its purpose is to act as a uniform origin for client-facing HTTP distribution systems. With new streaming formats and ever increasing bitrates putting strain on the existing storage capacity, these systems do require upgrades from time to time.
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Ö÷²¥´óÐã Sport app: "Top Stories" widget
The Top Stories widget will enables users to easily keep up-to-date with the latest sport action. Users can read the top sport headlines by swiping to view their Notification Centre (on iPhone and iPad), or on their homescreen (Android phones and tablets).
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Expanding Our Horizons With ChatGPT
Imagine what a hard-pressed producer looking for a new entertainment format could do with the latest generative AI tools.
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Music Events Platform: a domain driven approach
Eavis is the platform that controls and publishes our music events experiences on the web, tablet, mobile and interactive TV.
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8 things I learnt while creating my first animation
I am Charlotte Thornton, a UX designer on the Ö÷²¥´óÐã Visual Journalism team. I was recently given the task of creating my first animation to explain the process your old clothes go through after they have been donated to a charity shop. I'd like to share some key points I learnt through the process.
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College of Production round up: Earth Unplugged
This week, one assistant producer’s journey from traditional TV to YouTube, how a West London community station is reaching its audiences through new digital platforms, and how to choose and use the perfect image online in the return of our Twitter Q&As.
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CRL extensions and Apache 2.4
We use digital certificates for service-to-service and user-to-service secured communication, relying on centralised policies and procedures for issuing and updating all our certificates. Recently we updated our Transport Layer Security enabled Apache server to version 2.4 and had issues.
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How we grow junior developers at the Ö÷²¥´óÐã
The Ö÷²¥´óÐã’s Software Engineering Graduate Scheme is a two-year scheme for anyone who has a Computer Science related degree. It's a great way to enter the Ö÷²¥´óÐã as a junior-level Software Engineer with the added bonus of being able to move teams every six months with opportunities to develop skills.
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Enabling Secure HTTP for Ö÷²¥´óÐã Online - update
We’ve made some really good progress and now Ö÷²¥´óÐã products can roll out HTTPS.