Descriptive Metadata for Television

4 The Impact of Technology Change on People and Metadata Processes

For the better part of the past 100 years, producing a program was, by necessity, compartmentalized by virtue of the technologies, skills, and training of the people involved. Program-making people needed creative skills combined with unlimited ideas and imagination. Logistics necessitated people with organizational and negotiating skills, and business experts looked after the money. Cameras—any cameras—were a black art that needed specialist technical knowledge to make them do anything at all. Editing had to take place where the editing machinery was installed. Film needed a chemical laboratory to reveal the picture. Videotape needed experts in both mechanical and electronic ...