08/25/2011 — Metadata exchange with BMF 2.0 - flexible, usable and cost efficient

On time to the IBC 2011 the Institut für Rundfunktechnik (IRT) announces the publication of the Broadcast Metadata Exchange Format (BMF) 2.0 Beta. BMF 2.0 is a manufacturer independent format and enables a continuous exchange of metadata in the domains of radio, television and internet. This reduces both costs and risks on integrating interfaces in an IT-based production environment. Compared to previous version BMF 2.0 new use cases were added, the usability was improved and a new process to generate subsets of the BMF-model was developed.
The XML Schema of BMF 2.0 Beta can be downloaded by interesting companies from http://bmf.irt.de/en for testing and evaluation purposes at free cost. BMF 2.0 will be presented for the first time on the IBC 2011 in the context of a Proof of concept from the IRT (Booth 10.F51) together with well-known manufactures Annova (booth 3.A31), IBM (booth 2.B31) and S4M (booth 3.B26). more