{"id":198,"date":"2007-08-19T05:16:38","date_gmt":"2007-08-19T11:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/archives\/198"},"modified":"2007-08-19T05:16:38","modified_gmt":"2007-08-19T11:16:38","slug":"nature-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/archives\/198","title":{"rendered":"Nature software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hmmm, looking at the credits on an episode of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/nature\/animals\/planetearth\/\">planet earth<\/a>, I don&#8217;t see any credits for software\/IT support staff. I&#8217;m sure there _is_ some, but the fact that it&#8217;s uncredited probably indicates that there isn&#8217;t as much computing going on in the production of such a series as there ought to be. I can think of lots of ways that software and computing infrastructure could support efficient production, insightful exploration of A\/V materials and data, exceptional editing, etc., and I&#8217;m sure that current off-the-shelf software can&#8217;t be doing everything that can be done there.<\/p>\n<p>So, if anyone reading this is a nature documentary producer, I&#8217;ve got two requests of you: produce lots and lots more content on the level of quality of <u>planet earth<\/u> (even a level or two lower quality would still be great), and talk to me about how to make more and better stuff through software magic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmmm, looking at the credits on an episode of planet earth, I don&#8217;t see any credits for software\/IT support staff. I&#8217;m sure there _is_ some, but the fact that it&#8217;s uncredited probably indicates that there isn&#8217;t as much computing going on in the production of such a series as there ought to be. I can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,15,27,39,46,51,56],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-biology","tag-consulting","tag-information-technology","tag-ponderings","tag-science","tag-software","tag-technology","author-admin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}