Serving Massive Time-Based Media (SMaTBaM) - Report on the evaluation process of system needs and demands of serving time -based media in the area of the Performing Arts

The SMaTBaM project (Serving Massive Time-Based Media) aimed to establish a working example of a dataserver for time-based media in the area of the Performing Arts. Building on experience gained in the UMI/NetMuse project, the project will demonstrate the searching and serving of massive realtime data, using a web-based interactive front end.

The project is designed directly to enhance the Performing Arts Data Service, PADS , whose remit and funding from the Arts and Humanities Data Service, AHDS, do not extend to conducting research into the development of specialized supporting technology. (PADS is a Glasgow University Arts Planning Unit Project based in the Departments of Music and of Theatre, Film and Television Studies.)