This paper describes a content set that has been made available by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). The content in the set consists of broadcast media content collected from different broadcasters around the world. This content set is made available to the research community in order to evaluate automatic information extraction tools on this broadcast media. The set also contains ground truth data and annotations for several automatic information extraction tasks.

The third Workshop on Automated Information Extraction in Media Production (AIEMPro10) aims at fostering exchange of ideas and of practices between leading experts in research and leading actors in the media community, in order to catalyze the migration towards new ways of producing media content, aided by large scale introduction of tools for automated multimedia analysis and understanding. Furthermore, the workshop helps researchers in better understanding what are some real-life key requirements which would enable their scientific developments come into wider adoption.

Abstract Personal video recorders have the capability to change the media delivery industry fundamentally, and in this context, many believe the real international age of personal digital recorders (PDRs) will arrive with the use of “open” systems. The world reached an important milestone with the publication of the TV‐Anytime Phase 1 specifications for unidirectional broadcast and metadata services over bidirectional networks. TV‐Anytime is a worldwide prestandardization body; this article gives an overview of the main features of TV‐Anytime's metadata specification and its relationship to MPEG‐7 and provides insight into ways two organizations concerned with standards work together. Phase 2 has since been completed and TV‐Anytime has been adopted by various international standards organizations dealing with telecommunications and is now in the implementation phase.