Friday, 18 July 2008

Preparations for Beijing 2008




So far my preparations are going well according to plan.
I guess I can now provide a summary on my role during the Olympics.
I have been assigned as IDS Assistant Manager to handle IDS Systems mainly at the Basketball venue.

IDS stands for Information Diffusion System and is made up of the following sub-systems:
  • Commentator Information System (CIS) - to provide real time competition results for Broadcasters (TV, Radio and Venue Announcers).
  • Info 2008 (INF) Beijing 2008 Intranet - to provide information for the Press, Broadcasters and the Olympic Family. Information includes results, biorgraphies and background data, medals, schedules, records, etc.
  • Internet Data Feed (IDF) - to provide information for Internet Services Provider, Broadcasters and the international Press agencies.
  • Print Distribution (PRD) - an application used to distribute sports specific reports on paper for the Press and competition management.
  • Results Data Feed (RDF) - an application which facilitates report distribution (sport specific, cross-sport and general reports) to the World news press agencies.
  • Central Repository System (CRS) - a data repository used to consolidate all information regarding the Games and also servers as a document generator to feed other systems.

In order to gain extensive knowledge on my roles and other activities during the olympics, I have successfully completed mandatory eLearning courses and exams covering areas like Systems Architecture, Incident Management, Security, IT Operations and staffing.

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