BBC Radio's experimental audio-tagging project

BBC Radio is experimenting with a project to let radio listeners mark up its downloadable audio in order to produce useful, user-centric guides to the gigantic corpus of audio that the Beeb produces every day. Online Journalism News has a great explanatory article on it, off the back of Tom Coates's blog entry on the project (Tom worked on the project before leaving to work for Yahoo).

Under the Annotatable Audio project, radio listeners would be able to mark and add descriptive keywords to segments of programming they want to flag for bookmarking or sharing with others. It means they could highlight a specific item within a lengthy bulletin stream and return to that particular point later.

Inspired by Flickr and Wikipedia, the project is a private, early-stage pilot of social software produced at BBC Radio and Music Interactive that lets listeners slice programmes into chunks that can be identified by using tags.

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