Google se suma al proyecto ‘Journalism Innovation HUB’ de RTVE

The 'Journalism Innovation HUB' initiative, promoted by RTVE together with Telefónica, Watchity and VSN, will have the tools of Google Cloud Platform with special focus on big data and artificial intelligence.

The project Journalism Innovation HUB of RTVE adds to its activity Google, after the entry of other companies such as Telefónica, Watchity, VSN and the direction of the Almagro Theater Festival. This collaboration is possible thanks to the agreement signed by Enrique Alejo, corporate general director of RTVE, and Fuencisla Clemares, general director of Google Spain and Portugal.

He HUB Journalism Innovation It has the collaboration of companies that share with RTVE the interest in the study of new audiovisual technologies applied to news. They are joined by Google, whose mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful for everyone.

The technology company participates by offering all the tools of Google Cloud Platform with special focus on big data and artificial intelligence. The objective is the investigation and improvement of the news process: ingestion, preprocessing, analysis, streaming, transcoding, etc. We will work on cases such as the detection of inappropriate content, self-tagging of photos and videos, audio transcription or self-subtitling.

At this signing, the general director of Google Spain and Portugal, Fuencisla Clemares, highlighted “the importance of this agreement, which is strategic for Google. It is a satisfaction that RTVE has the support and collaboration of Google”, she concluded.

Enrique Alejo, corporate general director of RTVE, has also described the agreement that has just been signed as “satisfactory and strategic.” “RTVE is open to the audiovisual ecosystem and Google is one of the important partners of this HUB, along with other large companies such as Telefónica and smaller ones such as Watchity, VSN and the Almagro Theater Festival.”

The first company to join the HUB was Telefónica, which participates in the joint study of alternatives for the communication of information to the audience and the interrelation with it, also contributing its experience in audiovisual technology and a set of tests related to the new one 5G technology applied to the new communication model.

Watchity also joined this project, a company that has developed a platform for production in the cloud live video, which combines mobile capture, multi-camera cloud production and multi-channel distribution to create new formats and digital narratives. At the RTVE HUB, the focus is on multi-camera production on cloud servers.

In addition, we must add the participation of VSN, a global technology company specialized in the development of IT solutions and broadcast software for business process management, production of news or live events and automation of the broadcast and distribution of content. This company participates in the HUB in the areas of editing and content management in “the cloud”, for automatic indexing and documentation tasks.

Digital transformation of news

He HUB Journalism Innovation is an RTVE project that was born with the objective of studying the digital transformation of news, including new technologies and new ways of making news reach the viewer. It is an open project, whose results will be used for radio, television and interactive media, which seeks to ensure that all tools and functionalities are implemented in “the cloud”, without the use of local infrastructures.

It began its activity last February and will carry out a first proof of concept during the 41st edition of the Almagro International Classical Theater Festival.

The objective is to study the digital transformation of news, including new technologies and new ways of working so that the communication of this type of events reaches the viewer.

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