Agence France-Presse
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Global news agency builds a multimedia content management infrastructure with Hyland's Nuxeo Platform.
Journalists use a rich client desktop to access feeds, create multimedia news items and compile and manage news items before delivering content to clients. Designed specifically for the agency's multimedia desks, where the Internet Journal is produced, the system offers an enriched multimedia news service, based on the NewsML standard, as recommended by the International Press Telecommunications Council.
Agence France-Presse, the third-largest press agency in the world, chose to build their next-generation multimedia content management infrastructure with Hyland's Nuxeo Platform.
Journalists use a rich client desktop to access feeds, create multimedia news items and compile and manage news items before delivering content to clients.
The AFP project had two key objectives — to minimize reaction time and improve the quality of services offered to customers.
Initial research indicated that traditional solutions for editorial production management were too geared toward paper copy and did not adequately exploit the internet’s inherent reaction speed, nor respond to the notion of continuous online updates, rather than conventional copy deadlines.
The project, which involved an upgrade of AFP’s Internet Journal system, centered around:
The system users are distributed geographically, covering all time zones.
— Daniel Oudet, Head of IT Engineering at AFP
Designed specifically for the agency’s multimedia desks, where the Internet Journal is produced, the system offers an enriched multimedia news service, based on the NewsML standard, as recommended by the International Press Telecommunications Council.
With the Nuxeo Platform as the foundation for the Internet Journal, the system enables:
Nuxeo Platform's enterprise content management components and services that are core to the AFP Internet Journal include document management, workflow, indexing, archiving, composition and publication of multimedia documents.