Appendix 2 Extracts from SMPTE Documents
This appendix presents extracts from the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineer’s Metadata Dictionary RP210 (or Register of Metadata Elements) as current in October 2005 and from Descriptive Metadata Scheme 1 (SMPTE380M). Copies of SMPTE’s Standards and Recommended Practices are available via the society’s website at www.smpte.org.
The extract in Figure A2.1, from the interpretive section of the dictionary, demonstrates the node and leaf structure of the register. It also shows examples of the unique key used for each element: the name, definition, datatype, and length of the element’s value (in bytes).
The register lists more than 1,700 entries, and it is continually being updated. At the ...
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