BBC Research and Development has revealed Time Addressable Media Store (TAMS) is moving to open governance.
The decision has been taken as more systems, solutions and products are built on the TAMS API.
TAMS, which was open-sourced by BBC R&D in 2023, enables media storage in chunked form, facilitating the transfer of only the section of content required at any one time.
In a blog post on the TAMS website, the BBC team said that TAMS is more suited to an open approach than a formal standardisation.
“The specification will continue to grow and change as the community iterates on what it needs, applying standard software versioning techniques to rapidly bring new capabilities without unduly breaking existing implementations,” said the post.
“We also value building an open ecosystem, without locking into an industry member or geographical organisation, which pushes us towards the approach of other industry projects on a similar journey, such as MXL.”
A Technical Steering Committee (TSC) will be formed to oversee the move towards open governance, with TAMS eventually moving away from the BBC GitHub Organisation. “Part of this process will see the TSC being rebalanced—no organisation will control more than one vote, with those that do in the ‘Setup Period’ relinquishing seats, and new members being found,” added the post.
The BBC said it remains committed to TAMS, and the R&D team will continue to explore new areas of research.
