Chapters within programmes: finding the bit you want
Post categories: chapterisation, chapters, web site
|18:30 UK time, Friday, 25 September 2009
Sarah Prag, head of audio services for BBC Audio & Music, has led the project to chop radio programmes up into 'chapters' to make it easier to find what you missed. The first live use of 'chapterisation' is on 5 live. She wrote about it for the BBC Internet blog:
A couple of weeks ago we took a first tentative step on what will hopefully be a significant journey. We started to identify 'chapters' within programmes. Chapters is the term we're using to describe sections of a programme, rather like the chapters of a DVD. In some cases a programme might have back to back chapters, like a book, but in other cases producers might just identify key moments in the programme e.g. the big interviews.
We're excited about chapters for several reasons...
Read the rest of Sarah's post and leave comments on the BBC Internet blog where it first appeared. And you can try out chapters on most of 5 live's programmes now.
