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Metadata Standards

About the Standards

Some of the interesting metadata standards that I encountered during the research for this book are summarized here. You should consult the standards documents themselves for definitive element and attribute details.

Note also that new standards are emerging all the time and that this list is not exhaustive.

Reference tables of entities, identifiers and data sets in XML form with comparisons between EBU and other schemes are available at the EBU web site.

SMPTE 335M-2000 Metadata Dictionary

The SMPTE Metadata Dictionary Registry (RP 210) lists over a thousand different metadata elements organized under distinct class nodes, which are listed in Table B-1. The best way to obtain the SMPTE standards is to ...

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