FIMS to be honoured at IBC

IBC has announced that the Framework for Interoperable Media Services (FIMS) will receive the Judges’ Prize at IBC 2012. The project is a joint initiative between the Advanced Media Workflow Association (AMWA) and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).

The broadcast industry is moving towards file-based exchange and production infrastructures, with the benefits realised if there is a seamless interface between the installations of different producers and broadcasters, and between the products of different vendors.

AMWA and EBU recognised the need for this agreement and brought in the FIMS initiative; many of the manufacturers in the segment together with a large number of broadcasters from around the world. It is this collaboration to achieve a necessary goal quickly and efficiently that IBC has chosen to mark.

Michael Lumley, chairman of the IBC Innovation Awards said: “IBC values sharing knowledge above all else, and in developing practical standards so quickly, the FIMS partners had to share their knowledge if the resulting standards were going to be robust enough to be useful globally.”

He added: “It is right that we celebrate broad collaboration across the industry, and I am delighted that we can honour EBU and AMWA for their efforts in driving the FIMS project, and Bloomberg on behalf of all the partners, as the pioneering implementer of the standard.”

The IBC Judges’ Prize will be presented to FIMS, along with the International Honour for Excellence to NHK.

Additional awards include the Exhibition Design Awards, Special Award and the Best Conference Paper Award, which will be given to the Fraunhofer Institute for telecommunications.

The ceremony will be held in the RAI Auditorium at 18:30 on 9 September.