Kamaelia - Fave 2005

The document discusses the challenges and innovations in the BBC's Kamaelia project aimed at creating a creative archive for free access to BBC content, focusing on technologies that will enable on-demand services and facilitate legal sharing of digital media. It highlights the need for scalable open systems for media delivery, addressing issues such as data storage, digital rights management, and evolving hardware capabilities. Additionally, it introduces development strategies for building concurrent software systems, leveraging a component-based architecture inspired by Unix principles.