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of 主播大秀 R&D has written a long, comprehensive and post on his personal blog: It's a history of how systems like the 主播大秀's Programme Information database (PIPs) and /programme pages work together:

"PIPs version 1 was designed to automate programme pages for Radio 3. PIPs version 2 took the same model and attempted to roll it out over the rest of the national radio networks. Both versions were a single system with 3 parts: data storage, management and publishing. Both predated any 主播大秀 dynamic publishing infrastructure by several years and relied on 鈥渃ompiling鈥� pages and parts of pages offline to be FTPed to the live servers..."

And an explanation of the tricky conceptual problems around organising the 主播大秀's programmes in a digital world:

The core of the PIPs data model is the episode. As explained above this is not the broadcast or the media asset but the more platonic grouping of media assets. I鈥檝e heard this described in many ways from assets / broadcasts with the same 鈥渆ditorial intent鈥� to assets / broadcasts telling the same 鈥渟tory鈥�. So for example the Today Programme is a 3 hour broadcast on FM but a 2.5 hour broadcast on LW (the last 30 minutes make way for Yesterday in Parliament) but they鈥檙e recognisably the same episode. Or an episode of Casualty might have a BSL version and a non-BSL version but they鈥檙e recognisably the same episode...

Over on the official R&D blog reports back on聽鈥�:

"What really struck me about the conference was how many women were speaking. When I counted up afterwards I realised I had seen equal numbers of men and women, which is almost unheard of at a technology event!"

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Nick Reynolds is Assistant Editor, 主播大秀 Online