Improving workflows

Making life better for journalists

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40 projects

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Streaming Transcription

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Segmenting broadcast content with The News Slicer

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Multilingual Article Tracker (Mat)

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Matching Video Content from the World Service

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Live Page Translation

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Image Annotations

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Guiding Hand

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Evergreen Content

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Digital Paper Edit

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Window on the Newsroom

Window on the Newsroom is a prototype discovery interface to help Journalists find content quickly across the whole Newsroom system by story or metadata properties
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Transcriptor - create transcripts from News Video

Transcriptor takes news audio content, transcribes it, then provides a means to view and edit the transcript alongside the original content.
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Touchcast

During late 2013 BBC News Labs ran a set of Touchcast pilots, and Touchcast moved to production in 2014.
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The Network of Content

The BBC has AN ENORMOUS amount of amazing content that can explain and contextualise the News. How do we connect and harness this?
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Suggestr - connecting the News industry with BBC tags

A new intuitive and quick way of tagging news articles with linked data concepts, which opens the BBC's structured data to benefit local News organisations.
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Salco - Semi-Automated Local Content

Semi-automated local stories about election results, NHS performance and more
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SCAMP - Speech Creation for Automated Multilingual media Production

Create spoken content anywhere, at any time, without access to specialist facilities such as TV and Radio studios or even microphones
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RadioReader

RadioReader is an experiment that lets journalists find, extract and publish audio clips from incoming radio inputs.
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Pool of Video

BBC News Labs is looking into some new research questions based on AV curation.
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Newsroom.Tools - aka Journalist Toolbox - from newsHACK 2015

In June 2015, a hack team at newsHACK created a concept called The Journalist Toolbox, proposing that newsroom content publishing & presentation tools needed to be more accessible for journalists. This has been renamed to Newsroom.Tools
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NewsMap

See News headlines, from 400+ publishers across the globe, on a map. This experiment was aimed at large displays, at expos.
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News in Space

The News in Space project attempts to find the similarity between all pieces of BBC content, no matter the format or subject.
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Make Your Own Million-Pound App: A Tutorial

Here's the lowdown on some of the technologies that we use to build our applications quickly.
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MT-Stretch

Improving neural machine translation through user corrections in real-time model updates.
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Live Stream - Live video from Journalists' mobiles

Live View allows Journalists to IP 'live stream' via our digital services. It also supports wrapping/integrations these live streams with social conversations and linked data relationships.
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GoURMET - Global Under-Resourced MEdia Translation

Creating machine translation models for under-served and under-resourced languages
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Gifenator

The Gifenator allows journalists to capture frames from live broadcast streams to republish as GIFs on social media channels.
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External Links Manager

ELMer is a prototype for automating external linking from BBC News stories.
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Datastringer

Datastringer will help you subscribe to data sources, and will notify you when patterns arise or thresholds are broken.
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Captions - Who's talking when, in Parliament

Exploring the use of captioning workflows as a means to infuse our linear output with structured data.
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Babels and News Rig - Multilingual Journalism Workflows

A prototype workflow for reversioning content into multiple languages, and controlling an on demand multilingual news service.
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BBC Rewind Collaboration

The News Labs team is working with BBC Rewind - a project liberating the BBC archive - to share tech and approaches.
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BBC Business Charts demo

An attempt to show news events seamlessly on stock charts
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API Testing for Newsroom Computer System

BBC News Labs worked with the BBC procurement team to help test APIs for the BBC's next generation broadcast running order system.
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VodSounds

Publishing audio versions of TV shows to BBC Sounds.
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Stitch

A tool that allows journalists to create rich graphics video templates directly from their web browser.
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SUMMA - Scalable Understanding of Multilingual MediA

Using a range of combined language technologies to support multilingual media monitoring.
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Online Content Toolkit (OCTO)

The Online Content Toolkit, or Octo, is a project exploring media editing, repurposing and augmentation based on the results of intelligent analysis.
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News Switcher

News Switcher lets BBC journalists easily switch between the different editions of the News website
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Depth Finder

Making the BBC's analysis, explainers and interactive features more discoverable
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Audiogram Generator

A tool for turning audio content into video files that can be shared on social media.

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