One can imagine the librarian manually searching through millions of rows of videotapes in the hope of finding particular footage of a certain programme. Considering there are over 70,000 productions on file, it is not a job to be relished. APRP allows the rapid automatic indexing of digital data from a variety of sources, including paper, electronic and sound and is based on conversion of information to binary patterns. In retrieval, Excalibur searches for an underlying pattern from the digital data, not for specific words, which allows for typing errors. The Semantic Network technology is concerned with narrowing the search through word meanings.
Semantic networks store multiple definitions for each word they contain.
Word meanings most appropriate to a given search or subject may be selected by the user to improve the accuracy of the search. The Results Granada Media can now search and retrieve all relevant documentation and footage details, enabling it to run its operations more smoothly and confidently than before, knowing that business will not be lost through lack of information and that all the latest opportunities for sales can be maximised. What we have seen so far, fulfils our criteria and has given us food for thought regarding the future prospects of the technology within our company. The extract sales division now has the ability to gain precise and immediate retrieval of synopses and scripts, in order to locate the production information it needs. The rights management department have been able to detect important contractual documentation and have been able to make faster and more accurate decisions.