Metadata – IRT Lab

weConnect is live!

Aylin Vogl — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 13:12:50 +0000

by Uwe Felderhoff and Aylin Vogl In the night of 01.12.2020, under the direction of IRT, the ARD radio contribution exchange was switched to weConnect. This was followed on December 9, under the direction of ARD Sternpunkt, by the shutdown of the previous, centralized line dispatching and thus the introduction of the decentralized weConnect line ...

weConnect – Metadata within ARD radio broadcasting

Aylin Vogl — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 09:50:27 +0000

The weConnect project aims at establishing seamless networking amongst all ARD radio stations. Mainly affected by this change are editorial, production and scheduling systems. Until now, all these individual systems were separate solutions that enabled flawless and structured work, but used their own “language”, which made interoperability between these systems impossible. Now weConnect intends ...

HRADIO: Online demo of transparent DAB(+) distribution over IP

Alexander Erk — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 13:57:19 +0000

Radio is going digital – slowly but steadily. Currently, this happens in two different worlds: One is DAB(+) and the other is IP streaming. DAB(+) is a sophisticated and efficient broadcast standard with many clearly specified add-on functionalities – but it does not support personalisation of its services as is. In contrast, IP-based radio services ...