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Parliamentary Library Wins National Innovation Award
The Parliamentary Library has won the 2005 Australian Government Libraries Information Network (AGLIN) National Innovation Award for the Electronic Media Monitoring (EMMS) system developed by Visionbytes.
The independent panel of judges assessed the Library’s system as the most innovative based on a set of criteria that included contribution to delivery of organisational outcomes in terms of core business, and business capability improvements achieved including dollars saved, organization improvement, service improvement and customer satisfaction.
The EMMS system allows Senators and Members to browse, search and view TV and radio news and current affairs on desktop PCs. The items are recorded in Canberra by Parliamentary Library staff and published onto the EMMS web site for access by Senators, Members and their staff in Parliament House and their electorate offices.
The system records 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, so that any items not scheduled to be automatically published to the web site can be retrieved and published for clients to access. In addition, the system captures closed captions for television items, so that the text of items can be searched and retrieved.
The award was presented to the Parliamentary Library at a ceremony at Old Parliament House on 12 July.
About Visionbytes
Visionbytes has been at the forefront of research, development and
implementation of Metadata Enhanced Content [ MDEC ] and media management
solutions since its incorporation. Metadata can be defined as being
descriptive information about a particular piece of content. Visionbytes
is focused on enabling organisations to maximise efficiencies in searching
content in multiple formats. The technology also provides organisations with
the opportunity to contain the increasing costs of managing and distributing content
across multiple platforms as media distribution channels converge.
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