Abstract
Consumer friendly delivery of multimedia digital services is drawing world attention. Broadcast archives are valuable multimedia resource centres, stocking audio and video materials of interest to a vast population across the globe. There is great potential of using these archival material for on-line access of information in respect of the material and also to some extent direct delivery of the material itself. The present paper describes the system architecture and implementation issues of an On-Line Broadcast Archives Management system (OL-BAMS) which entails all the functions of storage and dissemination taking advantage of emerging technology.
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H O Srivastava
H O Srivastava received the MSc (Electronics) degree from Gorakhpur University in 1967 PhD in Chemistry in 1996 and another PhD in Information Systems from BITS Pilani in 1998. He joined Indian Broadcasting Service in 1972 and has been responsible for management and expansion of broadcast networking India. He got training in the Information Technology in UK, USA, Japan and Norway. He worked as Commonwealth Expert in 1991 and ITU Expert in 1992. He is Fellow of IETE, BES, NTF and has published five dozen articles in national and international journals and received six international awards. His areas of interest are information systems, digital storage and multimedia broadcasting.