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User:MikeJohnson

2007-07-25T19:31:24Z

MikeJohnson:

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media-info-examples

2007-02-15T16:25:04Z

MikeJohnson: /* Service Publishing of Music */

= Media Info Examples =

== Contributors ==

* [[User:RodBegbie | RodBegbie]]
* [http://tantek.com/log/ Tantek Çelik]
* [http://napsterization.org/stories/ Mary Hodder]
* [http://joshkinberg.com/blog/ Joshua Kinberg]
* [[User:ChrisMessina | ChrisMessina]]
* [http://onlisareinsradar.com/ Lisa Rein]
* [[User:ManuSporny | Manu Sporny]], [http://blog.digitalbazaar.com Digital Bazaar], Inc.

== Introduction ==

Examples of what people actually publish on the Web when discussing, linking to, referring to media. This is focused predominantly on time based media such as audio and video, but may consider aspects of static media as well such as still images.

== Emphasis on Practical, Simple, and Minimal ==

Since all previous known attempts at this problem area have ended up quite complex and over-designed, this attempt will place simplicity and minimalism first and foremost.

Thus for now, this document is deliberately restricted to examples that are:
* ''Actual'' examples in practice on the Web '''with URLs''' to the originals (note, all *-examples pages should be like this, but previous attempts at documenting media info examples have mostly ignored this requirement, and thus it is necessary to be explicit).
* Representative of ''very common'' publishing behavior on the Web. This focus on common, representative examples is essential. If possible, include an estimate of the number of similar examples. E.g. ~10k.
* Simple and minimalist. As simple as possible. Go read [http://microformats.org/wiki/microformats#the_microformats_principles the microformats principles] right now before proceeding any further.

Any examples added which do not conform to these requirements will be deleted.

Any generic analysis will also be deleted. Analysis before examples is premature. Once there are sufficient media-info-examples, and hopefully a simple/clean listing of [[media-info-formats]], we'll hopefully start a [[media-info-brainstorming]] page to do aggregate analysis of the examples.

== Table of Contents ==

__TOC__

== Real World Examples ==

=== Overall Notes About Examples ===
These examples are organized into a short list of top level media categories, in the hopes that it will be easier to determine if there are media specific publishing behaviors, in addition to common behaviors across multiple types of media. Some may be subcategorized and distinguished by whether it was published by an individual publisher or a service:
* Audio (Speech, Music)
* Video
* Photos

The numbers after some of the examples' descriptions are based on numbers found pulling in media records at Dabble. Others may have higher numbers and would be encouraged to restate them if that's true.

=== Audio ===

==== Speech ====
Publication of audio speeches on blogs is often called "podcasting". In essence though, it is simply audio speech publishing. Quotes of audio files are beginning to appear, and publishers are putting up files with links to other audio files they've quoted from. Most audio appears to often have the same base elements as video and photos, with the exception of quotes.

===== Individual Publishing of Speech =====

* [http://www.microformats.org/blog/2005/09/30/web-essentials-audio/ Microformats: Web Essentials Audio]
** Appears to be composed of:
*** title/summary of the recording
*** clickable hyperlink to the recording (MP3)
** Contextual:
*** (primary) speaker is indicated in nearby text

* [http://www.thechrispirilloshow.com/help/20060119_chuck_cummins_on_windows_vista_interface_design.phtml Chris Pirillo podcast]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL(s), description or summary, categories/tags underneath what is viewable, and date. +10k

* [http://yukelzon.blogspot.com/2006/01/podcasts.html Reflog's Random Thoughts podcast]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, description or summary, creator, tags and publish time and date. +10k records.

* [http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/wordpress/2006/01/12/egc-clambake-for-january-12-2006/ Evil Genius Chronicles podcast]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, description or summary, quotes URLs and descriptions, licence, creator, tags and publish time and date. +10k records.

* [http://www(dot)bizbyjake.com/2006/01/how-are-you-doing.html media published from a blog, Jake Steinfeld's Audio Blog] NOTE: this record had trouble because mediawiki blocks any DOTbiz domains and so while this domain coincidentally has a DOTbizbyjake.com name that is not a TLD, it was still blocked in the loading of the page with this example. So please adjust the URL manually and then visit the site.
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, creator and publish time and date. +10k records.

==== Music ====

===== Individual Publishing of Music =====

* [http://www.bradsucks.net/music/ Brad Sucks » music]
** Has album title, song title, separate link to more info, inline flash player, and play link (to mp3)

* [http://www.scottandrew.com/music/ Scott Andrew - lo-fi acoustic pop superhero! > music >]
** Has album title, song title, album artwork, streaming link (to m3u), and play link (to mp3)

* [http://www.hearingdouble.co.uk/dumb/index2.html Portishead Remixed]
** Whole page is for one album (a mash-up remix of a Portishead album). Has Album Track Number and Title (linked to mp3) and Remixer's name, plus cover art. Also a link to the BitTorrent download of the whole album.

===== Service Publishing of Music =====

* [http://audiofind.ru/ AudioFind]
** [http://audiofind.ru/music/album/-/Lost%20Angel/Destination/?id=591 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: artist (link), title, genre (link), style (link), release date, label, summary, web-based purchase (link), price, artist rating, album rating, cover image
** [http://audiofind.ru/music/album/-/Lost%20Angel/Destination/?id=591 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title, length, rating, price, sample (link), web-based purchase (link)

* [http://bigpondmusic.com Telstra BigPond]
** [http://bigpondmusic.com/Album/The-Decemberists/The-Crane-Wife.aspx Album Example]
*** Information displayed: artist (link), title, genre, release date, label, summary, web-based purchase (link), subscriber price, non-subscriber price, cover image
** [http://bigpondmusic.com/Album/The-Decemberists/The-Crane-Wife.aspx Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title, artist, album, price, add to pop-list (link), sample (link), web-based purchase (link)

* [http://www.bitmunk.com/ Bitmunk]
** [http://www.bitmunk.com/showdetails?action=view&cwid=6068744 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: artist, album title, publisher, release date, genre (link), summary, long description, payees, total price, sample (link), tracks, web-based purchase (link), cover image, p2p-based purchase (link)
** [http://www.bitmunk.com/showdetails?action=view&cwid=6068746 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: artist, song title, composer, publisher, release date, genres, album, payees, total price, web-based purchase (link), p2p-based purchase (link)

* [http://music.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Music Unlimited]
** Album Example (unavailable without signing in)
** Song Example (unavailable without signing in)

* [http://downloadpunk.com Download Punk]
** [http://www.downloadpunk.com/?webaction=AlbumDetail&albumid=13202 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), label (link), physical-based purchase (link), web-based purchase (link), cover image
** [http://www.downloadpunk.com/?webaction=AlbumDetail&albumid=13202 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: title, sample (link), price, web-based purchase (link)

* [http://www.fye.com FYE]
** [http://www.fye.com/Not-Too-Late-Music_stcVVproductId7456462VVcatId458211VVviewprod.htm Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), format, release date, label (link), UPC, product id, genre, styles, cover image, regular price, store price, savings, physical-based purchase (link), tracks, description, reviews, production credits
** [http://www.fye.com/Not-Too-Late-Music_stcVVproductId7456462VVcatId458211VVviewprod.htm Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title, artist

* [http://imusic.libero.it/ iMusic]
** [http://imusic.libero.it/compilation.php?icom_id=105902&ptipo=pus&pid=171437 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), cover image, genre, release date, publisher, number of tracks, length, tracks, web-based purchase (link)
** [http://imusic.libero.it/compilation.php?icom_id=105902&ptipo=pus&pid=171437 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, length, sample (link), release date, price, web-based purchase (link)

* [http://musicdownload.aon.at/v7/ AON Music ]
** [http://www.omds.de/servlets/2452685121527Dispatch/31/Call?htmltemplate=./album/viewalbum.htm&lmtype=ALBUM&albumid=2310333 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: artist (link), album, cover image, price, format, bitrate, label, genre, number of tracks, sample (link), add bookmark (link), web-based purchase (link), tracks
** [http://www.omds.de/servlets/2452685121527Dispatch/31/Call?htmltemplate=./album/viewalbum.htm&lmtype=ALBUM&albumid=2310333 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title, length, format, price, sample (link), add bookmark (link), web-based purchase (link)

* [http://music.msn.com MSN]
** [http://music.msn.com/album/?album=50538895 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: artist (link), title, release date, label, album rating, cover image,
** Song Example (store wasn't working correctly - no song info found)

* [http://musik.tdconline.dk/servlets/2452306090224Dispatch/19/Call?htmltemplate=./index.htm TDC Online]
** [http://musik.tdconline.dk/servlets/2452306090224Dispatch/19/call?htmltemplate=./album/viewalbum.htm&trackid=5010526 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), length, release date, label, format, cover image, web-based purchase (link), price, tracks
** [http://musik.tdconline.dk/servlets/2452306090224Dispatch/19/call?htmltemplate=./album/viewalbum.htm&trackid=5010526 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title (link), price, sample (link), web-based purchase (link)

* [http://www.audiolunchbox.com Audio Lunchbox]
** [http://www.audiolunchbox.com/album?a=75751 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), label (link), genre (link), release date (link), cover image, format, bitrate, price, price in credits, web-based purchase (link), add to wishlist (link), sample (flash applet), tracks
** [http://www.audiolunchbox.com/album?a=75751 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title, length, price, price in credits, web-based purchase (link), sample (flash applet)

* [http://www.chaosmusic.com/music/ Chaos Music]
** [http://chaos.com/product.asp?intProductID=739720&intArtistID=167488 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), cover image, genre, format, release date, price, physical-based purchase (link), add to wishlist (link), tracks, description, availability
** [http://chaos.com/product.asp?intProductID=739720&intArtistID=167488 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title

* [http://www.connect-europe.com Sony Connect]
** [http://store.connect-europe.com/albumDetailPage.do?albumId=3260785 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), cover image, genre (link), release date, label, length, publisher, price, web-based purchase (link), tracks
** [http://store.connect-europe.com/albumDetailPage.do?albumId=3260785 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist, length, price, sample (link), web-based purchase (link)

* [http://www.digirama.co.nz/ Digirama]
** [http://www.digirama.co.nz/AlbumDetails.aspx?MediaID=578456 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), genre (link), label, cover image, release date, price, web-based purchase (link), license, related albums, also bought, reviews, tracks
** [http://www.digirama.co.nz/AlbumDetails.aspx?MediaID=578456 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title, length, sample (link), price, web-based purchase (link)

* [http://www.emusic.com eMusic]
** [http://www-v3.emusic.com/album/10917/10917324.html Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), sample (link), save to playlist (link), genre (link), styles (link), label (link), album rating, reviews, length, tracks, web-based purchase (link)
** [http://www-v3.emusic.com/album/10917/10917324.html Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, sample (link), tracks, length, web-based purchase (link)

* [http://www.fnacmusic.com/ FNAC]
** [http://www.fnacmusic.com/album/7088f214-6187-4845-afdc-6391e103f67d.aspx Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), cover image, length, add to playlist (link), web-based purchase (link), tracks, price, genre
** [http://www.fnacmusic.com/album/7088f214-6187-4845-afdc-6391e103f67d.aspx Song Example]
*** Information displayed: sample (link), add to playlist (link), track number, title, length, web-based purchase (link), price

* [http://sanity.com.au Sanity]
** [http://www.sanity.com.au/product/rockpop.asp?sku=-942394 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), cover image, release date, catalog ID, SKU, label, price, price in points, summary, tracks, physical-based purchase (link)
** [http://www.sanity.com.au/product/rockpop.asp?sku=-942394 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title

* [http://www.misrolas.com/ MisRolas]
** [http://www.misrolas.com/downloadmusic/album.php?id=1316 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), cover image, release date, number of tracks, album rating, price, web-based purchase (link), tracks, reviews
** [http://www.misrolas.com/downloadmusic/album.php?id=1316 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title, sample (link), artist, price, web-based purchase (link), add to wishlist (link)

* [http://www.mtv.com MTV]
** [http://www.mtv.com/#/music/artist/my_chemical_romance/albums.jhtml?albumId=1367908 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title (link), artist (link), cover image, release date, label, tracks, physical-based purchase (link)
** [http://www.mtv.com/#/music/artist/my_chemical_romance/albums.jhtml?albumId=1367908 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title, sample (link), video sample (link)

* [http://www.musica360.com/ Musica360]
** [http://musica360.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=232 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist, price, samples (flash), cover image, tracks, web-based purchase (link)
** [http://musica360.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=232 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist, price, web-based purchase (link)

* [http://www.musicload.de/ Musicload]
** [http://www.musicload.de/item.ml?releaseid=1884260_2 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), price, rating, genre, length, quality, release date, label, sample (link), web-based purchase (link), track list, comments
** [http://www.musicload.de/item.ml?releaseid=1884261_4 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), album (link), price, rating, genre, length, quality, release date, label, sample (link), web-based purchase (link), comments

* [http://www.musicmatch.com Musicmatch] (Merged with Yahoo! Jukebox)
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.musicnet.com MusicNet] (Service Provider)
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.musicnow.com AOL Music Now] (Merged with Napster)
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.napster.com Napster]
** [http://www.napster.com/view/album/index.html?id=12376484 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), release date, track count, label, sample (link), share (link), web-based purchase (link), review, track list
** [http://www.napster.com/view/album/index.html?id=12376484 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: artist (link), title, track number, album title, length, web-based purchase (link)

* [http://www.nate.com Nate.com] (Appears to be Korean, cannot find album examples)
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.nextradiosolutions.com Next Radio] (Service Provider)
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.partymob.com/edl/browse/?tab=music PartyMob]
** [http://www.partymob.com/edl/details/default.aspx?album=2089814 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), total length, release date, format, quality, genre, sample (link), price, web-based purchase (link), track list
** [http://www.partymob.com/edl/details/default.aspx?track=234418 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist, length, release date, format, quality, genre, sample (link), price, web-based purchase (link), DRM information

* [http://www.peerimpact.com Peer Impact]
** [http://www2.peerimpact.com/contentstorage-xml/album30.do?templateName=WEB-INF/conversion-templates/album30.vm&albumId=89449 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), price, purchase (application link), format, track count, genre, release date, label, track list
** [http://www2.peerimpact.com/contentstorage-xml/album30.do?templateName=WEB-INF/conversion-templates/album30.vm&albumId=89449# Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, sample (link), title, artist (link), length, price

* [http://www.puretracks.com Pure Tracks]
** [http://us.puretracks.com/catalog/details.aspx?pid=emi_094638723653 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: artist, title, label, total length, disc count, release date, price, web-based purchase (link), DRM information, track list
** [http://us.puretracks.com/catalog/details.aspx?pid=emi_094638723653 Song Example] (in popup window)
*** Information displayed: track number, sample (link), title, artist, length, price, web-based purchase (link), label (popup)

* [http://www.reggaecountry.com Reggae Country]
** [http://www.reggaecountry.com/Shopping/Browse.aspx?mode=item&category=209&item=35745 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist, release date, label, web-based purchse (link), price, track list
** [http://www.reggaecountry.com/Shopping/Browse.aspx?mode=item&category=209&item=35745 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: sample (link), track number, title, artist, length, web-based purchase (link), price

* [http://www.rhapsody.com Real/Rhapsody]
** [http://www.rhapsody.com/harryconnickjr/chansonduvieuxcarrconnickonpiano3 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: artist, title, sample (link), label, release date, track list
** [http://www.rhapsody.com/harryconnickjr/chansonduvieuxcarrconnickonpiano3 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: sample (link), track number, title

* [http://www.ruckusnetwork.com Ruckus]
** [http://wapps.ruckus.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/ruckus.woa/2/wo/bQ5EBCLVYbWMuHOuCRElwM/0.0.27.15.13.1.16.3.3 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist, release date, genre, label, track list
** [http://wapps.ruckus.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/ruckus.woa/2/wo/bQ5EBCLVYbWMuHOuCRElwM/0.0.27.15.13.1.16.3.3 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title, length

* [http://www.sanity.com.au Sanity]
** [http://www.sanity.com.au/product/rockpop.asp?sku=-943269 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), release date, catalog id, label, price, web-based purchase (link), track list
** [http://www.sanity.com.au/product/rockpop.asp?sku=-943269 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: sample, track number, title

* [http://www.soundbuzz.com Soundbuzz] (Requires MS IE6)
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.starbucks.com Starbucks] (Requires Flash 8 player)
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.starzik.com/starzik.php Starzik SARL]
** Album Example (hidden url)
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), genre, label, release date, length, format, bitrate, size, web-based purchase (link), track list
** Song Example (hidden url, separate from album example)
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), album title, genre, label, release date, length, creators, composer, performance artist, format, bitrate, size, web-based purchase (link)

* [http://www.streetcds.com/ Street CDs] (parked domain name)
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.synacor.com/content/index.php Synacor] (Service provider)
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.telecomitalia.com/ Telecom Italia] (Service provider)
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.terra.es/pixbox/ Pixbox (Terra) ] (Windows application)
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.thecellcity.com CellCity]
** [http://www.thecellcity.com/4DACTION/CDMProductQuery?CDMCommand=fuzzyquery&CDMdepartment=music&cdmalbum=What's%20The%20Word%20Vol.%201&CDMReturnURL=/music/albumdetails.shtml] Album Example]
*** Information displayed: artist, label, release date, genre, track list
** [http://www.thecellcity.com/4DACTION/CDMProductQuery?CDMCommand=GetProductDetail&CDMProductID=A00001148172&CDMReturnURL=/music/product_detail.shtml Song Example]
*** Information displayed: title, price, web-based purchase (link)

* [http://www.top100.cn top100.cn]
** [http://www.top100.cn/product/specialall/S0027876000.htm Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), release date, sample (link), web-based purchase (link), label (link), genre (link), long description, track list
** [http://www.top100.cn/product/SongFiles/0027876/M0027876001.htm Song Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), label (link), genre (link), price, sample (link), web-based purchase (link), description, comments

* [http://www.virgin.com/downloads Virgin Digital] (merged with Napster)
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.virginmega.fr/ Virgin] (Requires Windows)
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.wippit.com/default.aspx Wippit]
** [http://www.wippit.com/AlbumDet.aspx?StrId=28724&StrCatType=S Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), price, genre (link), format, release date, track list, web-based purchase (link)
** [http://www.wippit.com/DetailItem.aspx?StrItemID=28724&StrMediaID=724904&StrMediaType=S Song Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), album (link), genre, format, release date, size, track number, file type, price, web-based purchase link

* [http://www.yanga.ru Yanga]
** [http://yanga.ru/music/album/-/Duke%20Ellington/Jack%20The%20Bear/?id=28510 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), genre (link), release date, label, price, web-based purchase (link), rating, track list
** [http://yanga.ru/music/album/-/Duke%20Ellington/Jack%20The%20Bear/?id=28510 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: sample, track number, title, length, rating, price, web-based purchase (link)

* [http://www.yeahronimo.nl Yeahronimo (Commodoreworld)]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.somesongs.com/ somesongs]
** Has song title (linked to more info), artist (linked to more info), play link (to mp3), and rating

* [http://magnatune.com/genres/rock/ Magnatune]
** Has artist (linked to more info), artist description, album title (linked to more info), lofi streaming link (to m3u), hifi streaming link (to m3u), link to more info, link to license info, link to purchase info.

* [http://www.songfight.org/ SONG FIGHT!]
** Has theme, artist/play link (to mp3).

* [http://www.yes.com/ Yes.com]
** Music played in last hour ([http://www.yes.com/lookup.php?s=WERS example])
*** Flash page with track play time, artist, title, cover art. Affiliate linked to iTunes music store.
** Top 100 Chart ([http://www.yes.com/top100.php?s=WXKS example])
*** HTML page with chart position, last week's chart position, artist, title (affiliate link to iTunes music store)

* MySpace (examples: [http://myspace.com/theradioknives] [http://www.myspace.com/singsinguk] [http://www.myspace.com/arcticmonkeys])
** Artist pages containing embedded flash players. Song title starts song playing on embedded player. Download link optionally links to mp3.
** Link to artist's homepage, band members, influences, biography.

* [http://musicbrainz.org MusicBrainz.org]
** MusicBrainz provides a catalog of music metadata such as the [http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/ArtistName artist name], the [http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/ReleaseTitle release title], and the list of [http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Track tracks] that appear on a release.
** Since 2005, users have the option to further relate each of these entities using a detailed set of [http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/AdvancedRelationships relationships] (i.e. who played which instrument on a release/track).
** Examples: [http://musicbrainz.org/browseartists.html browse] and [http://musicbrainz.org/search.html search] the catalog

* [http://reactor-core.org/ogg-tagging.html Vorbis Comment Recommendations]
** Comment fields development by the Ogg/Vorbis community to consistently describe audio files.

* [http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/techspecs.html iTunes RSS extensions]
** The DTD used to add richer data to media available in podcasts via the iTunes Music Store.

* [http://www.discogs.com/ Discogs]
** Extensive database with labels, artists, albums, etc. Also has extremely detailed submission guidelines that probably qualify for a media-info format.

=== Video ===
Publication of video on blogs often goes by "videoblogging", "vlogging", "VODcasting", or "video podcasting". The typical process involves publishing a direct link to the video file within the blog entry. The blog entry can, but does not have to, include an embedded video player. Many videos include a thumbnail jpg which is clickable to the media object and player. Some video includes links to those other source videos, photos and audio that have been quoted. Most videos have the same base elements as photos and audio, with the exception of quotes.

==== Individual publishing of video ====

* [http://FreeVlog.org FreeVlog]: the most popular tutorial on the web describing the videoblogging process by combining free tools and services (Blogger, OurMedia/Internet Archive, FeedBurner).
** According to this process, a videoblog entry contains:
*** Direct link to the video file
*** Clickable thumbnail image/screen capture of the video
*** Contextual information about the video (title, description, etc) is usually contained in the surrounding blog entry

* [http://joshkinberg.com/popupmaker Video Pop Up Maker]
** This example based on the process taught at [http://FreeVlog.org FreeVlog] generates code to create a dynamic pop up window with embedded video player. The reasons for this are enumerated [http://www.unmediated.org/archives/2005/10/easily_create_p.php here]

* [http://ryanedit.blogspot.com/2006/01/light-water-music-2.html Ryanne's Video Blog]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, thumbnail url, description or summary, creator, and publish time. +50k

* [http://www.prototypen.com/blog/vjblog/archives/001244.html Artificial Eye: fALks world news view 05|07|11 video post]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, thumbnail url, description or summary, creator, quotes URLs and description, and publish time. +10k (quotes +5k)

* [http://www.itsjerrytime.com/ It's JerryTime! - episodic video content]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, thumbnail url and creator. +10k records.

* [http://www.bottomunion.com/blog/ Bottom Union combined video + text blog]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, thumbnail URL, description or summary, creator, tags and publish time and date. +5k blogs

* [http://kitchenarts.blogspot.com/ KitchenArts instructional/marketing video blog]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, thumbnail URL, description or summary, creator, and publish time and date. +5k blogs

* [http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2005/12/06.html#a1348 Jon Udell's Weblog: Greasemonkeying Google Videomedia - blog post with quoting of video via greasemonkey plugin]. This example *may* be better suited to a study from the perspective of a citation.
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, description or summary, creator, quote URLs and description, license and publish time. >100 records but is climbing rapidly.

* [http://rocketboom.com/vlog/ Rocketboom daily with amanda congdon - daily video posting in a blog-like format, with quoting of video, audio photos]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, description or summary, creator, quote URLs and description, license and publish time. This example also "auto-plays", that is, starts playing the video in the normal browser/HTML view upon loading of the page. +20k

==== Service publishing of video ====

* [http://blip.tv/ blip.tv - video blogging, podcasting and sharing service]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, thumbnail URL, description or summary, license, creator, tags and upload time. +1m across all hosters. +10k records.

* [http://youtube.com/ YouTube - Broadcast Yourself - video hosting and sharing service]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, thumbnail URL, description or summary, license, creator, tags and upload time. +1m across all hosters. +15k records.

* [http://mefeedia.com/ Mefeedia] - Mefeedia is the best place to find free videoblogs or video podcasts.
** This example has a Title, Html URL, thumbnail URL, thumbnail title, media type overlay icon, creator.

* [http://vimeo.com/ Vimeo] - The Flickr of Video
** This example has a Title, thumbnail (class=moduleClipThumb), thumbnail URL, Html URL, creator.

* [http://DailyMotion.com/ DailyMotion] - Watch, publish, share
** This example has a thumbnail (class=category_minilist_item_video_preview_image), with an Html URL, thumbnail URL, certain info (class=category_minilist_infos), title (class=category_minilist_item_title), href to country tag (with image icon with class=category_minilist_item_flag, image title set to country name).

=== Photos ===
* A few photos online have region annotation and quoting. But as tools are developed that are usable for mass publishers, this will likely increase.
* Many videos have thumbnails that are jpgs.
* Many videos use pictures and therefore the pictures themselves are quotes from the video.
* Most photos have the same elements as videos and audio, with the exception of quotes.

==== Individual Publishing of Photos ====
* [http://blog.bouckenooghe.com/2005/09/01/em6-a-est-fache-avec-le-centimetre/ Blog A Brac » E=m6 a est fâché avec le centimètre - photo with annotated screen-caps]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, description or summary, creator, quotes and descriptions, tags/categories, and publish date and time. +200 across all individually blogged photos.
* [http://scribbling.net/projects/fotonotesrolloverviewer/fotonotesplugin.php?p=helicopterovernyc.jpg Scribbling.net implementation of Fotonotes Plugin demonstrating the fotonotes annotation tool for photos]
** This example has media url, quotes and descriptions, creator. +200 across all individually blogged photos.

* For more work along the lines of 2d annotations, please see (and add to) [[photo-note-examples]].

==== Service publishing of photos ====

* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/500hats/50282408/ Flickr - Photo Sharing instance of a photo.]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, description or summary, quotes URLs and descriptions, licence, tags, upload time, playlist (set), license, creator, and other capture data. +millions across all hosters. +millions of records.

* [http://www.webshots.com/search?query=san+francisco&new=1&source=search_results_top Webshots - Search results, gallery view.]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, creator, licence, Premium/Standard access.

* [http://www.webshots.com/g/32/579-sh/25695.html Webshots - Single photo view.]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, creator, licence, link to creator's other photos. Three alternate download sizes, link to buy a print. Link to add as favorite. Link to next, previous photos in collection. Photo belongs to generic category (no tags). Links to related photo searches.

== Notes on Existing Practices ==

Mary Hodder:
* We are finding as we look at thousands of user generated media records, that all have titles, creator, at least a default licensing, most have tags whose functionality is made available through the hosting service (the richer the media, the more likely tagging goes toward 100%), Html and media URLs, thumbnail URLs, publishing date, and about 25% have quoting information of some sort (quotes of video or audio, and region quotes of photos).
* Tags apparently appear at the upload point on 61% of photos in Flickr, and within a short period, 80+% have tags. 12% of users in Flickr apparently tag photos other than their own.

Manu Sporny (on music):
* There is an increasing number of sites that link to different methods of acquiring content displayed on a web page. These may include links to high-quality, or full versins of the media being described on the page. The various options include: free, streaming with ads, one-time purchase, and rental.
* Summaries, long descriptions and reviews are also prevalent in some of the content.

Manu Sporny (on video):
* We should attempt to support the basic information on sites that have been operational for years such as IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes among others. These sites tend to have very detailed information on all things related to video and TV - other sites will follow their lead because their meta-data seems to be the most complete on the web - thus making every other site contain a sub-set of their meta-data.

== Next Steps ==
# Add more real-world, simple, minimal examples.
# Research and organize existing/previous [[media-info-formats]], with a focus on formats for publishing '''common''', '''user-visible''' media information.
# Start [[media-info-brainstorming]] based on examples.

== See Also ==
* [[media-metadata-examples]] - previous attempt to catalog and organize top down metadata systems generated by engineers and committees, as examples of elements, and includes formats which should be in a separate page. Useful as a source of research but this microformat needs to embrace the bottomup ways users are publishing photos, video and audio online.

media-info-examples

2007-02-14T07:58:51Z

MikeJohnson: /* Service Publishing of Music */

= Media Info Examples =

== Contributors ==

* [[User:RodBegbie | RodBegbie]]
* [http://tantek.com/log/ Tantek Çelik]
* [http://napsterization.org/stories/ Mary Hodder]
* [http://joshkinberg.com/blog/ Joshua Kinberg]
* [[User:ChrisMessina | ChrisMessina]]
* [http://onlisareinsradar.com/ Lisa Rein]
* [[User:ManuSporny | Manu Sporny]], [http://blog.digitalbazaar.com Digital Bazaar], Inc.

== Introduction ==

Examples of what people actually publish on the Web when discussing, linking to, referring to media. This is focused predominantly on time based media such as audio and video, but may consider aspects of static media as well such as still images.

== Emphasis on Practical, Simple, and Minimal ==

Since all previous known attempts at this problem area have ended up quite complex and over-designed, this attempt will place simplicity and minimalism first and foremost.

Thus for now, this document is deliberately restricted to examples that are:
* ''Actual'' examples in practice on the Web '''with URLs''' to the originals (note, all *-examples pages should be like this, but previous attempts at documenting media info examples have mostly ignored this requirement, and thus it is necessary to be explicit).
* Representative of ''very common'' publishing behavior on the Web. This focus on common, representative examples is essential. If possible, include an estimate of the number of similar examples. E.g. ~10k.
* Simple and minimalist. As simple as possible. Go read [http://microformats.org/wiki/microformats#the_microformats_principles the microformats principles] right now before proceeding any further.

Any examples added which do not conform to these requirements will be deleted.

Any generic analysis will also be deleted. Analysis before examples is premature. Once there are sufficient media-info-examples, and hopefully a simple/clean listing of [[media-info-formats]], we'll hopefully start a [[media-info-brainstorming]] page to do aggregate analysis of the examples.

== Table of Contents ==

__TOC__

== Real World Examples ==

=== Overall Notes About Examples ===
These examples are organized into a short list of top level media categories, in the hopes that it will be easier to determine if there are media specific publishing behaviors, in addition to common behaviors across multiple types of media. Some may be subcategorized and distinguished by whether it was published by an individual publisher or a service:
* Audio (Speech, Music)
* Video
* Photos

The numbers after some of the examples' descriptions are based on numbers found pulling in media records at Dabble. Others may have higher numbers and would be encouraged to restate them if that's true.

=== Audio ===

==== Speech ====
Publication of audio speeches on blogs is often called "podcasting". In essence though, it is simply audio speech publishing. Quotes of audio files are beginning to appear, and publishers are putting up files with links to other audio files they've quoted from. Most audio appears to often have the same base elements as video and photos, with the exception of quotes.

===== Individual Publishing of Speech =====

* [http://www.microformats.org/blog/2005/09/30/web-essentials-audio/ Microformats: Web Essentials Audio]
** Appears to be composed of:
*** title/summary of the recording
*** clickable hyperlink to the recording (MP3)
** Contextual:
*** (primary) speaker is indicated in nearby text

* [http://www.thechrispirilloshow.com/help/20060119_chuck_cummins_on_windows_vista_interface_design.phtml Chris Pirillo podcast]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL(s), description or summary, categories/tags underneath what is viewable, and date. +10k

* [http://yukelzon.blogspot.com/2006/01/podcasts.html Reflog's Random Thoughts podcast]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, description or summary, creator, tags and publish time and date. +10k records.

* [http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/wordpress/2006/01/12/egc-clambake-for-january-12-2006/ Evil Genius Chronicles podcast]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, description or summary, quotes URLs and descriptions, licence, creator, tags and publish time and date. +10k records.

* [http://www(dot)bizbyjake.com/2006/01/how-are-you-doing.html media published from a blog, Jake Steinfeld's Audio Blog] NOTE: this record had trouble because mediawiki blocks any DOTbiz domains and so while this domain coincidentally has a DOTbizbyjake.com name that is not a TLD, it was still blocked in the loading of the page with this example. So please adjust the URL manually and then visit the site.
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, creator and publish time and date. +10k records.

==== Music ====

===== Individual Publishing of Music =====

* [http://www.bradsucks.net/music/ Brad Sucks » music]
** Has album title, song title, separate link to more info, inline flash player, and play link (to mp3)

* [http://www.scottandrew.com/music/ Scott Andrew - lo-fi acoustic pop superhero! > music >]
** Has album title, song title, album artwork, streaming link (to m3u), and play link (to mp3)

* [http://www.hearingdouble.co.uk/dumb/index2.html Portishead Remixed]
** Whole page is for one album (a mash-up remix of a Portishead album). Has Album Track Number and Title (linked to mp3) and Remixer's name, plus cover art. Also a link to the BitTorrent download of the whole album.

===== Service Publishing of Music =====

* [http://audiofind.ru/ AudioFind]
** [http://audiofind.ru/music/album/-/Lost%20Angel/Destination/?id=591 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: artist (link), title, genre (link), style (link), release date, label, summary, web-based purchase (link), price, artist rating, album rating, cover image
** [http://audiofind.ru/music/album/-/Lost%20Angel/Destination/?id=591 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title, length, rating, price, sample (link), web-based purchase (link)

* [http://bigpondmusic.com Telstra BigPond]
** [http://bigpondmusic.com/Album/The-Decemberists/The-Crane-Wife.aspx Album Example]
*** Information displayed: artist (link), title, genre, release date, label, summary, web-based purchase (link), subscriber price, non-subscriber price, cover image
** [http://bigpondmusic.com/Album/The-Decemberists/The-Crane-Wife.aspx Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title, artist, album, price, add to pop-list (link), sample (link), web-based purchase (link)

* [http://www.bitmunk.com/ Bitmunk]
** [http://www.bitmunk.com/showdetails?action=view&cwid=6068744 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: artist, album title, publisher, release date, genre (link), summary, long description, payees, total price, sample (link), tracks, web-based purchase (link), cover image, p2p-based purchase (link)
** [http://www.bitmunk.com/showdetails?action=view&cwid=6068746 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: artist, song title, composer, publisher, release date, genres, album, payees, total price, web-based purchase (link), p2p-based purchase (link)

* [http://music.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Music Unlimited]
** Album Example (unavailable without signing in)
** Song Example (unavailable without signing in)

* [http://downloadpunk.com Download Punk]
** [http://www.downloadpunk.com/?webaction=AlbumDetail&albumid=13202 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), label (link), physical-based purchase (link), web-based purchase (link), cover image
** [http://www.downloadpunk.com/?webaction=AlbumDetail&albumid=13202 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: title, sample (link), price, web-based purchase (link)

* [http://www.fye.com FYE]
** [http://www.fye.com/Not-Too-Late-Music_stcVVproductId7456462VVcatId458211VVviewprod.htm Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), format, release date, label (link), UPC, product id, genre, styles, cover image, regular price, store price, savings, physical-based purchase (link), tracks, description, reviews, production credits
** [http://www.fye.com/Not-Too-Late-Music_stcVVproductId7456462VVcatId458211VVviewprod.htm Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title, artist

* [http://imusic.libero.it/ iMusic]
** [http://imusic.libero.it/compilation.php?icom_id=105902&ptipo=pus&pid=171437 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), cover image, genre, release date, publisher, number of tracks, length, tracks, web-based purchase (link)
** [http://imusic.libero.it/compilation.php?icom_id=105902&ptipo=pus&pid=171437 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, length, sample (link), release date, price, web-based purchase (link)

* [http://musicdownload.aon.at/v7/ AON Music ]
** [http://www.omds.de/servlets/2452685121527Dispatch/31/Call?htmltemplate=./album/viewalbum.htm&lmtype=ALBUM&albumid=2310333 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: artist (link), album, cover image, price, format, bitrate, label, genre, number of tracks, sample (link), add bookmark (link), web-based purchase (link), tracks
** [http://www.omds.de/servlets/2452685121527Dispatch/31/Call?htmltemplate=./album/viewalbum.htm&lmtype=ALBUM&albumid=2310333 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title, length, format, price, sample (link), add bookmark (link), web-based purchase (link)

* [http://music.msn.com MSN]
** [http://music.msn.com/album/?album=50538895 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: artist (link), title, release date, label, album rating, cover image,
** Song Example (store wasn't working correctly - no song info found)

* [http://musik.tdconline.dk/servlets/2452306090224Dispatch/19/Call?htmltemplate=./index.htm TDC Online]
** [http://musik.tdconline.dk/servlets/2452306090224Dispatch/19/call?htmltemplate=./album/viewalbum.htm&trackid=5010526 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), length, release date, label, format, cover image, web-based purchase (link), price, tracks
** [http://musik.tdconline.dk/servlets/2452306090224Dispatch/19/call?htmltemplate=./album/viewalbum.htm&trackid=5010526 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title (link), price, sample (link), web-based purchase (link)

* [http://www.audiolunchbox.com Audio Lunchbox]
** [http://www.audiolunchbox.com/album?a=75751 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), label (link), genre (link), release date (link), cover image, format, bitrate, price, price in credits, web-based purchase (link), add to wishlist (link), sample (flash applet), tracks
** [http://www.audiolunchbox.com/album?a=75751 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title, length, price, price in credits, web-based purchase (link), sample (flash applet)

* [http://www.chaosmusic.com/music/ Chaos Music]
** [http://chaos.com/product.asp?intProductID=739720&intArtistID=167488 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), cover image, genre, format, release date, price, physical-based purchase (link), add to wishlist (link), tracks, description, availability
** [http://chaos.com/product.asp?intProductID=739720&intArtistID=167488 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title

* [http://www.connect-europe.com Sony Connect]
** [http://store.connect-europe.com/albumDetailPage.do?albumId=3260785 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), cover image, genre (link), release date, label, length, publisher, price, web-based purchase (link), tracks
** [http://store.connect-europe.com/albumDetailPage.do?albumId=3260785 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist, length, price, sample (link), web-based purchase (link)

* [http://www.digirama.co.nz/ Digirama]
** [http://www.digirama.co.nz/AlbumDetails.aspx?MediaID=578456 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), genre (link), label, cover image, release date, price, web-based purchase (link), license, related albums, also bought, reviews, tracks
** [http://www.digirama.co.nz/AlbumDetails.aspx?MediaID=578456 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title, length, sample (link), price, web-based purchase (link)

* [http://www.emusic.com eMusic]
** [http://www-v3.emusic.com/album/10917/10917324.html Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), sample (link), save to playlist (link), genre (link), styles (link), label (link), album rating, reviews, length, tracks, web-based purchase (link)
** [http://www-v3.emusic.com/album/10917/10917324.html Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, sample (link), tracks, length, web-based purchase (link)

* [http://www.fnacmusic.com/ FNAC]
** [http://www.fnacmusic.com/album/7088f214-6187-4845-afdc-6391e103f67d.aspx Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), cover image, length, add to playlist (link), web-based purchase (link), tracks, price, genre
** [http://www.fnacmusic.com/album/7088f214-6187-4845-afdc-6391e103f67d.aspx Song Example]
*** Information displayed: sample (link), add to playlist (link), track number, title, length, web-based purchase (link), price

* [http://sanity.com.au Sanity]
** [http://www.sanity.com.au/product/rockpop.asp?sku=-942394 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), cover image, release date, catalog ID, SKU, label, price, price in points, summary, tracks, physical-based purchase (link)
** [http://www.sanity.com.au/product/rockpop.asp?sku=-942394 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title

* [http://www.misrolas.com/ MisRolas]
** [http://www.misrolas.com/downloadmusic/album.php?id=1316 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), cover image, release date, number of tracks, album rating, price, web-based purchase (link), tracks, reviews
** [http://www.misrolas.com/downloadmusic/album.php?id=1316 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title, sample (link), artist, price, web-based purchase (link), add to wishlist (link)

* [http://www.mtv.com MTV]
** [http://www.mtv.com/#/music/artist/my_chemical_romance/albums.jhtml?albumId=1367908 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title (link), artist (link), cover image, release date, label, tracks, physical-based purchase (link)
** [http://www.mtv.com/#/music/artist/my_chemical_romance/albums.jhtml?albumId=1367908 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title, sample (link), video sample (link)

* [http://www.musica360.com/ Musica360]
** [http://musica360.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=232 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist, price, samples (flash), cover image, tracks, web-based purchase (link)
** [http://musica360.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=232 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist, price, web-based purchase (link)

* [http://www.musicload.de/ Musicload]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.musicmatch.com Musicmatch]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.musicnet.com MusicNet]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.musicnow.com AOL Music Now] (merged with Napster, below)
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.napster.com Napster]
** [http://www.napster.com/view/album/index.html?id=12376484 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), release date, track count, label, sample (link), share (link), web-based purchase (link), review, track list
** [http://www.napster.com/view/album/index.html?id=12376484 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: artist (link), title, track number, album title, length, web-based purchase (link)

* [http://www.nate.com Nate.com]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.nextradiosolutions.com Next Radio]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.partymob.com/edl/browse/?tab=music PartyMob]
** [http://www.partymob.com/edl/details/default.aspx?album=2089814 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), total length, release date, format, quality, genre, sample (link), price, web-based purchase (link), track list
** [http://www.partymob.com/edl/details/default.aspx?track=234418 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist, length, release date, format, quality, genre, sample (link), price, web-based purchase (link), DRM information

* [http://www.peerimpact.com Peer Impact]
** [http://www2.peerimpact.com/contentstorage-xml/album30.do?templateName=WEB-INF/conversion-templates/album30.vm&albumId=89449 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), price, purchase (application link), format, track count, genre, release date, label, track list
** [http://www2.peerimpact.com/contentstorage-xml/album30.do?templateName=WEB-INF/conversion-templates/album30.vm&albumId=89449# Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, sample (link), title, artist (link), length, price

* [http://www.puretracks.com Pure Tracks]
** [http://us.puretracks.com/catalog/details.aspx?pid=emi_094638723653 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: artist, title, label, total length, disc count, release date, price, web-based purchase (link), DRM information, track list
** [http://us.puretracks.com/catalog/details.aspx?pid=emi_094638723653 Song Example] (in popup window)
*** Information displayed: track number, sample (link), title, artist, length, price, web-based purchase (link), label (popup)

* [http://www.reggaecountry.com Reggae Country]
** [http://www.reggaecountry.com/Shopping/Browse.aspx?mode=item&category=209&item=35745 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist, release date, label, web-based purchse (link), price, track list
** [http://www.reggaecountry.com/Shopping/Browse.aspx?mode=item&category=209&item=35745 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: sample (link), track number, title, artist, length, web-based purchase (link), price

* [http://www.rhapsody.com Real/Rhapsody]
** [http://www.rhapsody.com/harryconnickjr/chansonduvieuxcarrconnickonpiano3 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: artist, title, sample (link), label, release date, track list
** [http://www.rhapsody.com/harryconnickjr/chansonduvieuxcarrconnickonpiano3 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: sample (link), track number, title

* [http://www.ruckusnetwork.com Ruckus]
** [http://wapps.ruckus.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/ruckus.woa/2/wo/bQ5EBCLVYbWMuHOuCRElwM/0.0.27.15.13.1.16.3.3 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist, release date, genre, label, track list
** [http://wapps.ruckus.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/ruckus.woa/2/wo/bQ5EBCLVYbWMuHOuCRElwM/0.0.27.15.13.1.16.3.3 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title, length

* [http://www.sanity.com.au Sanity]
** [http://www.sanity.com.au/product/rockpop.asp?sku=-943269 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), release date, catalog id, label, price, web-based purchase (link), track list
** [http://www.sanity.com.au/product/rockpop.asp?sku=-943269 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: sample, track number, title

* [http://www.soundbuzz.com Soundbuzz]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.starbucks.com Starbucks]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.starzik.com/starzik.php Starzik SARL]
** Album Example (hidden url)
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), genre, label, release date, length, format, bitrate, size, web-based purchase (link), track list
** Song Example (hidden url, separate from album example)
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), album title, genre, label, release date, length, creators, composer, performance artist, format, bitrate, size, web-based purchase (link)

* [http://www.streetcds.com/ Street CDs]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.synacor.com/content/index.php Synacor]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.telecomitalia.com/ Telecom Italia]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.terra.es/pixbox/ Pixbox (Terra) ]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.thecellcity.com CellCity]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.top100.cn top100.cn]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.virgin.com/downloads Virgin Digital]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.virgindigital.com Virgin Digital]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.virginmega.fr/ Virgin]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.wippit.com/default.aspx Wippit]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.yanga.ru Yanga]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.yeahronimo.nl Yeahronimo (Commodoreworld)]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.somesongs.com/ somesongs]
** Has song title (linked to more info), artist (linked to more info), play link (to mp3), and rating

* [http://magnatune.com/genres/rock/ Magnatune]
** Has artist (linked to more info), artist description, album title (linked to more info), lofi streaming link (to m3u), hifi streaming link (to m3u), link to more info, link to license info, link to purchase info.

* [http://www.songfight.org/ SONG FIGHT!]
** Has theme, artist/play link (to mp3).

* [http://www.yes.com/ Yes.com]
** Music played in last hour ([http://www.yes.com/lookup.php?s=WERS example])
*** Flash page with track play time, artist, title, cover art. Affiliate linked to iTunes music store.
** Top 100 Chart ([http://www.yes.com/top100.php?s=WXKS example])
*** HTML page with chart position, last week's chart position, artist, title (affiliate link to iTunes music store)

* MySpace (examples: [http://myspace.com/theradioknives] [http://www.myspace.com/singsinguk] [http://www.myspace.com/arcticmonkeys])
** Artist pages containing embedded flash players. Song title starts song playing on embedded player. Download link optionally links to mp3.
** Link to artist's homepage, band members, influences, biography.

* [http://musicbrainz.org MusicBrainz.org]
** MusicBrainz provides a catalog of music metadata such as the [http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/ArtistName artist name], the [http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/ReleaseTitle release title], and the list of [http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Track tracks] that appear on a release.
** Since 2005, users have the option to further relate each of these entities using a detailed set of [http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/AdvancedRelationships relationships] (i.e. who played which instrument on a release/track).
** Examples: [http://musicbrainz.org/browseartists.html browse] and [http://musicbrainz.org/search.html search] the catalog

* [http://reactor-core.org/ogg-tagging.html Vorbis Comment Recommendations]
** Comment fields development by the Ogg/Vorbis community to consistently describe audio files.

* [http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/techspecs.html iTunes RSS extensions]
** The DTD used to add richer data to media available in podcasts via the iTunes Music Store.

* [http://www.discogs.com/ Discogs]
** Extensive database with labels, artists, albums, etc. Also has extremely detailed submission guidelines that probably qualify for a media-info format.

=== Video ===
Publication of video on blogs often goes by "videoblogging", "vlogging", "VODcasting", or "video podcasting". The typical process involves publishing a direct link to the video file within the blog entry. The blog entry can, but does not have to, include an embedded video player. Many videos include a thumbnail jpg which is clickable to the media object and player. Some video includes links to those other source videos, photos and audio that have been quoted. Most videos have the same base elements as photos and audio, with the exception of quotes.

==== Individual publishing of video ====

* [http://FreeVlog.org FreeVlog]: the most popular tutorial on the web describing the videoblogging process by combining free tools and services (Blogger, OurMedia/Internet Archive, FeedBurner).
** According to this process, a videoblog entry contains:
*** Direct link to the video file
*** Clickable thumbnail image/screen capture of the video
*** Contextual information about the video (title, description, etc) is usually contained in the surrounding blog entry

* [http://joshkinberg.com/popupmaker Video Pop Up Maker]
** This example based on the process taught at [http://FreeVlog.org FreeVlog] generates code to create a dynamic pop up window with embedded video player. The reasons for this are enumerated [http://www.unmediated.org/archives/2005/10/easily_create_p.php here]

* [http://ryanedit.blogspot.com/2006/01/light-water-music-2.html Ryanne's Video Blog]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, thumbnail url, description or summary, creator, and publish time. +50k

* [http://www.prototypen.com/blog/vjblog/archives/001244.html Artificial Eye: fALks world news view 05|07|11 video post]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, thumbnail url, description or summary, creator, quotes URLs and description, and publish time. +10k (quotes +5k)

* [http://www.itsjerrytime.com/ It's JerryTime! - episodic video content]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, thumbnail url and creator. +10k records.

* [http://www.bottomunion.com/blog/ Bottom Union combined video + text blog]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, thumbnail URL, description or summary, creator, tags and publish time and date. +5k blogs

* [http://kitchenarts.blogspot.com/ KitchenArts instructional/marketing video blog]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, thumbnail URL, description or summary, creator, and publish time and date. +5k blogs

* [http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2005/12/06.html#a1348 Jon Udell's Weblog: Greasemonkeying Google Videomedia - blog post with quoting of video via greasemonkey plugin]. This example *may* be better suited to a study from the perspective of a citation.
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, description or summary, creator, quote URLs and description, license and publish time. >100 records but is climbing rapidly.

* [http://rocketboom.com/vlog/ Rocketboom daily with amanda congdon - daily video posting in a blog-like format, with quoting of video, audio photos]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, description or summary, creator, quote URLs and description, license and publish time. This example also "auto-plays", that is, starts playing the video in the normal browser/HTML view upon loading of the page. +20k

==== Service publishing of video ====

* [http://blip.tv/ blip.tv - video blogging, podcasting and sharing service]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, thumbnail URL, description or summary, license, creator, tags and upload time. +1m across all hosters. +10k records.

* [http://youtube.com/ YouTube - Broadcast Yourself - video hosting and sharing service]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, thumbnail URL, description or summary, license, creator, tags and upload time. +1m across all hosters. +15k records.

* [http://mefeedia.com/ Mefeedia] - Mefeedia is the best place to find free videoblogs or video podcasts.
** This example has a Title, Html URL, thumbnail URL, thumbnail title, media type overlay icon, creator.

* [http://vimeo.com/ Vimeo] - The Flickr of Video
** This example has a Title, thumbnail (class=moduleClipThumb), thumbnail URL, Html URL, creator.

* [http://DailyMotion.com/ DailyMotion] - Watch, publish, share
** This example has a thumbnail (class=category_minilist_item_video_preview_image), with an Html URL, thumbnail URL, certain info (class=category_minilist_infos), title (class=category_minilist_item_title), href to country tag (with image icon with class=category_minilist_item_flag, image title set to country name).

=== Photos ===
* A few photos online have region annotation and quoting. But as tools are developed that are usable for mass publishers, this will likely increase.
* Many videos have thumbnails that are jpgs.
* Many videos use pictures and therefore the pictures themselves are quotes from the video.
* Most photos have the same elements as videos and audio, with the exception of quotes.

==== Individual Publishing of Photos ====
* [http://blog.bouckenooghe.com/2005/09/01/em6-a-est-fache-avec-le-centimetre/ Blog A Brac » E=m6 a est fâché avec le centimètre - photo with annotated screen-caps]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, description or summary, creator, quotes and descriptions, tags/categories, and publish date and time. +200 across all individually blogged photos.
* [http://scribbling.net/projects/fotonotesrolloverviewer/fotonotesplugin.php?p=helicopterovernyc.jpg Scribbling.net implementation of Fotonotes Plugin demonstrating the fotonotes annotation tool for photos]
** This example has media url, quotes and descriptions, creator. +200 across all individually blogged photos.

* For more work along the lines of 2d annotations, please see (and add to) [[photo-note-examples]].

==== Service publishing of photos ====

* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/500hats/50282408/ Flickr - Photo Sharing instance of a photo.]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, description or summary, quotes URLs and descriptions, licence, tags, upload time, playlist (set), license, creator, and other capture data. +millions across all hosters. +millions of records.

* [http://www.webshots.com/search?query=san+francisco&new=1&source=search_results_top Webshots - Search results, gallery view.]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, creator, licence, Premium/Standard access.

* [http://www.webshots.com/g/32/579-sh/25695.html Webshots - Single photo view.]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, creator, licence, link to creator's other photos. Three alternate download sizes, link to buy a print. Link to add as favorite. Link to next, previous photos in collection. Photo belongs to generic category (no tags). Links to related photo searches.

== Notes on Existing Practices ==

Mary Hodder:
* We are finding as we look at thousands of user generated media records, that all have titles, creator, at least a default licensing, most have tags whose functionality is made available through the hosting service (the richer the media, the more likely tagging goes toward 100%), Html and media URLs, thumbnail URLs, publishing date, and about 25% have quoting information of some sort (quotes of video or audio, and region quotes of photos).
* Tags apparently appear at the upload point on 61% of photos in Flickr, and within a short period, 80+% have tags. 12% of users in Flickr apparently tag photos other than their own.

Manu Sporny (on music):
* There is an increasing number of sites that link to different methods of acquiring content displayed on a web page. These may include links to high-quality, or full versins of the media being described on the page. The various options include: free, streaming with ads, one-time purchase, and rental.
* Summaries, long descriptions and reviews are also prevalent in some of the content.

Manu Sporny (on video):
* We should attempt to support the basic information on sites that have been operational for years such as IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes among others. These sites tend to have very detailed information on all things related to video and TV - other sites will follow their lead because their meta-data seems to be the most complete on the web - thus making every other site contain a sub-set of their meta-data.

== Next Steps ==
# Add more real-world, simple, minimal examples.
# Research and organize existing/previous [[media-info-formats]], with a focus on formats for publishing '''common''', '''user-visible''' media information.
# Start [[media-info-brainstorming]] based on examples.

== See Also ==
* [[media-metadata-examples]] - previous attempt to catalog and organize top down metadata systems generated by engineers and committees, as examples of elements, and includes formats which should be in a separate page. Useful as a source of research but this microformat needs to embrace the bottomup ways users are publishing photos, video and audio online.

media-info-examples

2007-02-13T06:23:28Z

MikeJohnson: /* Service Publishing of Music */

= Media Info Examples =

== Contributors ==

* [[User:RodBegbie | RodBegbie]]
* [http://tantek.com/log/ Tantek Çelik]
* [http://napsterization.org/stories/ Mary Hodder]
* [http://joshkinberg.com/blog/ Joshua Kinberg]
* [[User:ChrisMessina | ChrisMessina]]
* [http://onlisareinsradar.com/ Lisa Rein]
* [[User:ManuSporny | Manu Sporny]], [http://blog.digitalbazaar.com Digital Bazaar], Inc.

== Introduction ==

Examples of what people actually publish on the Web when discussing, linking to, referring to media. This is focused predominantly on time based media such as audio and video, but may consider aspects of static media as well such as still images.

== Emphasis on Practical, Simple, and Minimal ==

Since all previous known attempts at this problem area have ended up quite complex and over-designed, this attempt will place simplicity and minimalism first and foremost.

Thus for now, this document is deliberately restricted to examples that are:
* ''Actual'' examples in practice on the Web '''with URLs''' to the originals (note, all *-examples pages should be like this, but previous attempts at documenting media info examples have mostly ignored this requirement, and thus it is necessary to be explicit).
* Representative of ''very common'' publishing behavior on the Web. This focus on common, representative examples is essential. If possible, include an estimate of the number of similar examples. E.g. ~10k.
* Simple and minimalist. As simple as possible. Go read [http://microformats.org/wiki/microformats#the_microformats_principles the microformats principles] right now before proceeding any further.

Any examples added which do not conform to these requirements will be deleted.

Any generic analysis will also be deleted. Analysis before examples is premature. Once there are sufficient media-info-examples, and hopefully a simple/clean listing of [[media-info-formats]], we'll hopefully start a [[media-info-brainstorming]] page to do aggregate analysis of the examples.

== Table of Contents ==

__TOC__

== Real World Examples ==

=== Overall Notes About Examples ===
These examples are organized into a short list of top level media categories, in the hopes that it will be easier to determine if there are media specific publishing behaviors, in addition to common behaviors across multiple types of media. Some may be subcategorized and distinguished by whether it was published by an individual publisher or a service:
* Audio (Speech, Music)
* Video
* Photos

The numbers after some of the examples' descriptions are based on numbers found pulling in media records at Dabble. Others may have higher numbers and would be encouraged to restate them if that's true.

=== Audio ===

==== Speech ====
Publication of audio speeches on blogs is often called "podcasting". In essence though, it is simply audio speech publishing. Quotes of audio files are beginning to appear, and publishers are putting up files with links to other audio files they've quoted from. Most audio appears to often have the same base elements as video and photos, with the exception of quotes.

===== Individual Publishing of Speech =====

* [http://www.microformats.org/blog/2005/09/30/web-essentials-audio/ Microformats: Web Essentials Audio]
** Appears to be composed of:
*** title/summary of the recording
*** clickable hyperlink to the recording (MP3)
** Contextual:
*** (primary) speaker is indicated in nearby text

* [http://www.thechrispirilloshow.com/help/20060119_chuck_cummins_on_windows_vista_interface_design.phtml Chris Pirillo podcast]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL(s), description or summary, categories/tags underneath what is viewable, and date. +10k

* [http://yukelzon.blogspot.com/2006/01/podcasts.html Reflog's Random Thoughts podcast]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, description or summary, creator, tags and publish time and date. +10k records.

* [http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/wordpress/2006/01/12/egc-clambake-for-january-12-2006/ Evil Genius Chronicles podcast]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, description or summary, quotes URLs and descriptions, licence, creator, tags and publish time and date. +10k records.

* [http://www(dot)bizbyjake.com/2006/01/how-are-you-doing.html media published from a blog, Jake Steinfeld's Audio Blog] NOTE: this record had trouble because mediawiki blocks any DOTbiz domains and so while this domain coincidentally has a DOTbizbyjake.com name that is not a TLD, it was still blocked in the loading of the page with this example. So please adjust the URL manually and then visit the site.
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, creator and publish time and date. +10k records.

==== Music ====

===== Individual Publishing of Music =====

* [http://www.bradsucks.net/music/ Brad Sucks » music]
** Has album title, song title, separate link to more info, inline flash player, and play link (to mp3)

* [http://www.scottandrew.com/music/ Scott Andrew - lo-fi acoustic pop superhero! > music >]
** Has album title, song title, album artwork, streaming link (to m3u), and play link (to mp3)

* [http://www.hearingdouble.co.uk/dumb/index2.html Portishead Remixed]
** Whole page is for one album (a mash-up remix of a Portishead album). Has Album Track Number and Title (linked to mp3) and Remixer's name, plus cover art. Also a link to the BitTorrent download of the whole album.

===== Service Publishing of Music =====

* [http://audiofind.ru/ AudioFind]
** [http://audiofind.ru/music/album/-/Lost%20Angel/Destination/?id=591 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: artist (link), title, genre (link), style (link), release date, label, summary, web-based purchase (link), price, artist rating, album rating, cover image
** [http://audiofind.ru/music/album/-/Lost%20Angel/Destination/?id=591 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title, length, rating, price, sample (link), web-based purchase (link)

* [http://bigpondmusic.com Telstra BigPond]
** [http://bigpondmusic.com/Album/The-Decemberists/The-Crane-Wife.aspx Album Example]
*** Information displayed: artist (link), title, genre, release date, label, summary, web-based purchase (link), subscriber price, non-subscriber price, cover image
** [http://bigpondmusic.com/Album/The-Decemberists/The-Crane-Wife.aspx Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title, artist, album, price, add to pop-list (link), sample (link), web-based purchase (link)

* [http://www.bitmunk.com/ Bitmunk]
** [http://www.bitmunk.com/showdetails?action=view&cwid=6068744 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: artist, album title, publisher, release date, genre (link), summary, long description, payees, total price, sample (link), tracks, web-based purchase (link), cover image, p2p-based purchase (link)
** [http://www.bitmunk.com/showdetails?action=view&cwid=6068746 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: artist, song title, composer, publisher, release date, genres, album, payees, total price, web-based purchase (link), p2p-based purchase (link)

* [http://music.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Music Unlimited]
** Album Example (unavailable without signing in)
** Song Example (unavailable without signing in)

* [http://downloadpunk.com Download Punk]
** [http://www.downloadpunk.com/?webaction=AlbumDetail&albumid=13202 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), label (link), physical-based purchase (link), web-based purchase (link), cover image
** [http://www.downloadpunk.com/?webaction=AlbumDetail&albumid=13202 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: title, sample (link), price, web-based purchase (link)

* [http://www.fye.com FYE]
** [http://www.fye.com/Not-Too-Late-Music_stcVVproductId7456462VVcatId458211VVviewprod.htm Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), format, release date, label (link), UPC, product id, genre, styles, cover image, regular price, store price, savings, physical-based purchase (link), tracks, description, reviews, production credits
** [http://www.fye.com/Not-Too-Late-Music_stcVVproductId7456462VVcatId458211VVviewprod.htm Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title, artist

* [http://imusic.libero.it/ iMusic]
** [http://imusic.libero.it/compilation.php?icom_id=105902&ptipo=pus&pid=171437 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), cover image, genre, release date, publisher, number of tracks, length, tracks, web-based purchase (link)
** [http://imusic.libero.it/compilation.php?icom_id=105902&ptipo=pus&pid=171437 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, length, sample (link), release date, price, web-based purchase (link)

* [http://musicdownload.aon.at/v7/ AON Music ]
** [http://www.omds.de/servlets/2452685121527Dispatch/31/Call?htmltemplate=./album/viewalbum.htm&lmtype=ALBUM&albumid=2310333 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: artist (link), album, cover image, price, format, bitrate, label, genre, number of tracks, sample (link), add bookmark (link), web-based purchase (link), tracks
** [http://www.omds.de/servlets/2452685121527Dispatch/31/Call?htmltemplate=./album/viewalbum.htm&lmtype=ALBUM&albumid=2310333 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title, length, format, price, sample (link), add bookmark (link), web-based purchase (link)

* [http://music.msn.com MSN]
** [http://music.msn.com/album/?album=50538895 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: artist (link), title, release date, label, album rating, cover image,
** Song Example (store wasn't working correctly - no song info found)

* [http://musik.tdconline.dk/servlets/2452306090224Dispatch/19/Call?htmltemplate=./index.htm TDC Online]
** [http://musik.tdconline.dk/servlets/2452306090224Dispatch/19/call?htmltemplate=./album/viewalbum.htm&trackid=5010526 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), length, release date, label, format, cover image, web-based purchase (link), price, tracks
** [http://musik.tdconline.dk/servlets/2452306090224Dispatch/19/call?htmltemplate=./album/viewalbum.htm&trackid=5010526 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title (link), price, sample (link), web-based purchase (link)

* [http://www.audiolunchbox.com Audio Lunchbox]
** [http://www.audiolunchbox.com/album?a=75751 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), label (link), genre (link), release date (link), cover image, format, bitrate, price, price in credits, web-based purchase (link), add to wishlist (link), sample (flash applet), tracks
** [http://www.audiolunchbox.com/album?a=75751 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title, length, price, price in credits, web-based purchase (link), sample (flash applet)

* [http://www.chaosmusic.com/music/ Chaos Music]
** [http://chaos.com/product.asp?intProductID=739720&intArtistID=167488 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), cover image, genre, format, release date, price, physical-based purchase (link), add to wishlist (link), tracks, description, availability
** [http://chaos.com/product.asp?intProductID=739720&intArtistID=167488 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title

* [http://www.connect-europe.com Sony Connect]
** [http://store.connect-europe.com/albumDetailPage.do?albumId=3260785 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), cover image, genre (link), release date, label, length, publisher, price, web-based purchase (link), tracks
** [http://store.connect-europe.com/albumDetailPage.do?albumId=3260785 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist, length, price, sample (link), web-based purchase (link)

* [http://www.digirama.co.nz/ Digirama]
** [http://www.digirama.co.nz/AlbumDetails.aspx?MediaID=578456 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), genre (link), label, cover image, release date, price, web-based purchase (link), license, related albums, also bought, reviews, tracks
** [http://www.digirama.co.nz/AlbumDetails.aspx?MediaID=578456 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title, length, sample (link), price, web-based purchase (link)

* [http://www.emusic.com eMusic]
** [http://www-v3.emusic.com/album/10917/10917324.html Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), sample (link), save to playlist (link), genre (link), styles (link), label (link), album rating, reviews, length, tracks, web-based purchase (link)
** [http://www-v3.emusic.com/album/10917/10917324.html Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, sample (link), tracks, length, web-based purchase (link)

* [http://www.fnacmusic.com/ FNAC]
** [http://www.fnacmusic.com/album/7088f214-6187-4845-afdc-6391e103f67d.aspx Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), cover image, length, add to playlist (link), web-based purchase (link), tracks, price, genre
** [http://www.fnacmusic.com/album/7088f214-6187-4845-afdc-6391e103f67d.aspx Song Example]
*** Information displayed: sample (link), add to playlist (link), track number, title, length, web-based purchase (link), price

* [http://sanity.com.au Sanity]
** [http://www.sanity.com.au/product/rockpop.asp?sku=-942394 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), cover image, release date, catalog ID, SKU, label, price, price in points, summary, tracks, physical-based purchase (link)
** [http://www.sanity.com.au/product/rockpop.asp?sku=-942394 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title

* [http://www.misrolas.com/ MisRolas]
** [http://www.misrolas.com/downloadmusic/album.php?id=1316 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), cover image, release date, number of tracks, album rating, price, web-based purchase (link), tracks, reviews
** [http://www.misrolas.com/downloadmusic/album.php?id=1316 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title, sample (link), artist, price, web-based purchase (link), add to wishlist (link)

* [http://www.mtv.com MTV]
** [http://www.mtv.com/#/music/artist/my_chemical_romance/albums.jhtml?albumId=1367908 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title (link), artist (link), cover image, release date, label, tracks, physical-based purchase (link)
** [http://www.mtv.com/#/music/artist/my_chemical_romance/albums.jhtml?albumId=1367908 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title, sample (link), video sample (link)

* [http://www.musica360.com/ Musica360]
** [http://musica360.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=232 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist, price, samples (flash), cover image, tracks, web-based purchase (link)
** [http://musica360.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=232 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist, price, web-based purchase (link)

* [http://www.musicload.de/ Musicload]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.musicmatch.com Musicmatch]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.musicnet.com MusicNet]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.musicnow.com AOL Music Now] (merged with Napster, below)
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.napster.com Napster]
** [http://www.napster.com/view/album/index.html?id=12376484 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), release date, track count, label, sample (link), share (link), web-based purchase (link), review, track list
** [http://www.napster.com/view/album/index.html?id=12376484 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: artist (link), title, track number, album title, length, web-based purchase (link)

* [http://www.nate.com Nate.com]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.nextradiosolutions.com Next Radio]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.partymob.com/edl/browse/?tab=music PartyMob]
** [http://www.partymob.com/edl/details/default.aspx?album=2089814 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), total length, release date, format, quality, genre, sample (link), price, web-based purchase (link), track list
** [http://www.partymob.com/edl/details/default.aspx?track=234418 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist, length, release date, format, quality, genre, sample (link), price, web-based purchase (link), DRM information

* [http://www.peerimpact.com Peer Impact]
** [http://www2.peerimpact.com/contentstorage-xml/album30.do?templateName=WEB-INF/conversion-templates/album30.vm&albumId=89449 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), price, purchase (application link), format, track count, genre, release date, label, track list
** [http://www2.peerimpact.com/contentstorage-xml/album30.do?templateName=WEB-INF/conversion-templates/album30.vm&albumId=89449# Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, sample (link), title, artist (link), length, price

* [http://www.puretracks.com Pure Tracks]
** [http://us.puretracks.com/catalog/details.aspx?pid=emi_094638723653 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: artist, title, label, total length, disc count, release date, price, web-based purchase (link), DRM information, track list
** [http://us.puretracks.com/catalog/details.aspx?pid=emi_094638723653 Song Example] (in popup window)
*** Information displayed: track number, sample (link), title, artist, length, price, web-based purchase (link), label (popup)

* [http://www.reggaecountry.com Reggae Country]
** [http://www.reggaecountry.com/Shopping/Browse.aspx?mode=item&category=209&item=35745 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist, release date, label, web-based purchse (link), price, track list
** [http://www.reggaecountry.com/Shopping/Browse.aspx?mode=item&category=209&item=35745 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: sample (link), track number, title, artist, length, web-based purchase (link), price

* [http://www.rhapsody.com Real/Rhapsody]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.ruckusnetwork.com Ruckus]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.sanity.com.au Sanity]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.soundbuzz.com Soundbuzz]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.starbucks.com Starbucks]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.starzik.com/starzik.php Starzik SARL]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.streetcds.com/ Street CDs]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.synacor.com/content/index.php Synacor]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.telecomitalia.com/ Telecom Italia]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.terra.es/pixbox/ Pixbox (Terra) ]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.thecellcity.com CellCity]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.top100.cn top100.cn]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.virgin.com/downloads Virgin Digital]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.virgindigital.com Virgin Digital]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.virginmega.fr/ Virgin]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.wippit.com/default.aspx Wippit]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.yanga.ru Yanga]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.yeahronimo.nl Yeahronimo (Commodoreworld)]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.somesongs.com/ somesongs]
** Has song title (linked to more info), artist (linked to more info), play link (to mp3), and rating

* [http://magnatune.com/genres/rock/ Magnatune]
** Has artist (linked to more info), artist description, album title (linked to more info), lofi streaming link (to m3u), hifi streaming link (to m3u), link to more info, link to license info, link to purchase info.

* [http://www.songfight.org/ SONG FIGHT!]
** Has theme, artist/play link (to mp3).

* [http://www.yes.com/ Yes.com]
** Music played in last hour ([http://www.yes.com/lookup.php?s=WERS example])
*** Flash page with track play time, artist, title, cover art. Affiliate linked to iTunes music store.
** Top 100 Chart ([http://www.yes.com/top100.php?s=WXKS example])
*** HTML page with chart position, last week's chart position, artist, title (affiliate link to iTunes music store)

* MySpace (examples: [http://myspace.com/theradioknives] [http://www.myspace.com/singsinguk] [http://www.myspace.com/arcticmonkeys])
** Artist pages containing embedded flash players. Song title starts song playing on embedded player. Download link optionally links to mp3.
** Link to artist's homepage, band members, influences, biography.

* [http://musicbrainz.org MusicBrainz.org]
** MusicBrainz provides a catalog of music metadata such as the [http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/ArtistName artist name], the [http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/ReleaseTitle release title], and the list of [http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Track tracks] that appear on a release.
** Since 2005, users have the option to further relate each of these entities using a detailed set of [http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/AdvancedRelationships relationships] (i.e. who played which instrument on a release/track).
** Examples: [http://musicbrainz.org/browseartists.html browse] and [http://musicbrainz.org/search.html search] the catalog

* [http://reactor-core.org/ogg-tagging.html Vorbis Comment Recommendations]
** Comment fields development by the Ogg/Vorbis community to consistently describe audio files.

* [http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/techspecs.html iTunes RSS extensions]
** The DTD used to add richer data to media available in podcasts via the iTunes Music Store.

* [http://www.discogs.com/ Discogs]
** Extensive database with labels, artists, albums, etc. Also has extremely detailed submission guidelines that probably qualify for a media-info format.

=== Video ===
Publication of video on blogs often goes by "videoblogging", "vlogging", "VODcasting", or "video podcasting". The typical process involves publishing a direct link to the video file within the blog entry. The blog entry can, but does not have to, include an embedded video player. Many videos include a thumbnail jpg which is clickable to the media object and player. Some video includes links to those other source videos, photos and audio that have been quoted. Most videos have the same base elements as photos and audio, with the exception of quotes.

==== Individual publishing of video ====

* [http://FreeVlog.org FreeVlog]: the most popular tutorial on the web describing the videoblogging process by combining free tools and services (Blogger, OurMedia/Internet Archive, FeedBurner).
** According to this process, a videoblog entry contains:
*** Direct link to the video file
*** Clickable thumbnail image/screen capture of the video
*** Contextual information about the video (title, description, etc) is usually contained in the surrounding blog entry

* [http://joshkinberg.com/popupmaker Video Pop Up Maker]
** This example based on the process taught at [http://FreeVlog.org FreeVlog] generates code to create a dynamic pop up window with embedded video player. The reasons for this are enumerated [http://www.unmediated.org/archives/2005/10/easily_create_p.php here]

* [http://ryanedit.blogspot.com/2006/01/light-water-music-2.html Ryanne's Video Blog]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, thumbnail url, description or summary, creator, and publish time. +50k

* [http://www.prototypen.com/blog/vjblog/archives/001244.html Artificial Eye: fALks world news view 05|07|11 video post]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, thumbnail url, description or summary, creator, quotes URLs and description, and publish time. +10k (quotes +5k)

* [http://www.itsjerrytime.com/ It's JerryTime! - episodic video content]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, thumbnail url and creator. +10k records.

* [http://www.bottomunion.com/blog/ Bottom Union combined video + text blog]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, thumbnail URL, description or summary, creator, tags and publish time and date. +5k blogs

* [http://kitchenarts.blogspot.com/ KitchenArts instructional/marketing video blog]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, thumbnail URL, description or summary, creator, and publish time and date. +5k blogs

* [http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2005/12/06.html#a1348 Jon Udell's Weblog: Greasemonkeying Google Videomedia - blog post with quoting of video via greasemonkey plugin]. This example *may* be better suited to a study from the perspective of a citation.
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, description or summary, creator, quote URLs and description, license and publish time. >100 records but is climbing rapidly.

* [http://rocketboom.com/vlog/ Rocketboom daily with amanda congdon - daily video posting in a blog-like format, with quoting of video, audio photos]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, description or summary, creator, quote URLs and description, license and publish time. This example also "auto-plays", that is, starts playing the video in the normal browser/HTML view upon loading of the page. +20k

==== Service publishing of video ====

* [http://blip.tv/ blip.tv - video blogging, podcasting and sharing service]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, thumbnail URL, description or summary, license, creator, tags and upload time. +1m across all hosters. +10k records.

* [http://youtube.com/ YouTube - Broadcast Yourself - video hosting and sharing service]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, thumbnail URL, description or summary, license, creator, tags and upload time. +1m across all hosters. +15k records.

* [http://mefeedia.com/ Mefeedia] - Mefeedia is the best place to find free videoblogs or video podcasts.
** This example has a Title, Html URL, thumbnail URL, thumbnail title, media type overlay icon, creator.

* [http://vimeo.com/ Vimeo] - The Flickr of Video
** This example has a Title, thumbnail (class=moduleClipThumb), thumbnail URL, Html URL, creator.

* [http://DailyMotion.com/ DailyMotion] - Watch, publish, share
** This example has a thumbnail (class=category_minilist_item_video_preview_image), with an Html URL, thumbnail URL, certain info (class=category_minilist_infos), title (class=category_minilist_item_title), href to country tag (with image icon with class=category_minilist_item_flag, image title set to country name).

=== Photos ===
* A few photos online have region annotation and quoting. But as tools are developed that are usable for mass publishers, this will likely increase.
* Many videos have thumbnails that are jpgs.
* Many videos use pictures and therefore the pictures themselves are quotes from the video.
* Most photos have the same elements as videos and audio, with the exception of quotes.

==== Individual Publishing of Photos ====
* [http://blog.bouckenooghe.com/2005/09/01/em6-a-est-fache-avec-le-centimetre/ Blog A Brac » E=m6 a est fâché avec le centimètre - photo with annotated screen-caps]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, description or summary, creator, quotes and descriptions, tags/categories, and publish date and time. +200 across all individually blogged photos.
* [http://scribbling.net/projects/fotonotesrolloverviewer/fotonotesplugin.php?p=helicopterovernyc.jpg Scribbling.net implementation of Fotonotes Plugin demonstrating the fotonotes annotation tool for photos]
** This example has media url, quotes and descriptions, creator. +200 across all individually blogged photos.

* For more work along the lines of 2d annotations, please see (and add to) [[photo-note-examples]].

==== Service publishing of photos ====

* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/500hats/50282408/ Flickr - Photo Sharing instance of a photo.]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, description or summary, quotes URLs and descriptions, licence, tags, upload time, playlist (set), license, creator, and other capture data. +millions across all hosters. +millions of records.

* [http://www.webshots.com/search?query=san+francisco&new=1&source=search_results_top Webshots - Search results, gallery view.]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, creator, licence, Premium/Standard access.

* [http://www.webshots.com/g/32/579-sh/25695.html Webshots - Single photo view.]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, creator, licence, link to creator's other photos. Three alternate download sizes, link to buy a print. Link to add as favorite. Link to next, previous photos in collection. Photo belongs to generic category (no tags). Links to related photo searches.

== Notes on Existing Practices ==

Mary Hodder:
* We are finding as we look at thousands of user generated media records, that all have titles, creator, at least a default licensing, most have tags whose functionality is made available through the hosting service (the richer the media, the more likely tagging goes toward 100%), Html and media URLs, thumbnail URLs, publishing date, and about 25% have quoting information of some sort (quotes of video or audio, and region quotes of photos).
* Tags apparently appear at the upload point on 61% of photos in Flickr, and within a short period, 80+% have tags. 12% of users in Flickr apparently tag photos other than their own.

Manu Sporny (on music):
* There is an increasing number of sites that link to different methods of acquiring content displayed on a web page. These may include links to high-quality, or full versins of the media being described on the page. The various options include: free, streaming with ads, one-time purchase, and rental.
* Summaries, long descriptions and reviews are also prevalent in some of the content.

Manu Sporny (on video):
* We should attempt to support the basic information on sites that have been operational for years such as IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes among others. These sites tend to have very detailed information on all things related to video and TV - other sites will follow their lead because their meta-data seems to be the most complete on the web - thus making every other site contain a sub-set of their meta-data.

== Next Steps ==
# Add more real-world, simple, minimal examples.
# Research and organize existing/previous [[media-info-formats]], with a focus on formats for publishing '''common''', '''user-visible''' media information.
# Start [[media-info-brainstorming]] based on examples.

== See Also ==
* [[media-metadata-examples]] - previous attempt to catalog and organize top down metadata systems generated by engineers and committees, as examples of elements, and includes formats which should be in a separate page. Useful as a source of research but this microformat needs to embrace the bottomup ways users are publishing photos, video and audio online.

media-info-examples

2007-02-13T05:36:15Z

MikeJohnson: /* Service Publishing of Music */

= Media Info Examples =

== Contributors ==

* [[User:RodBegbie | RodBegbie]]
* [http://tantek.com/log/ Tantek Çelik]
* [http://napsterization.org/stories/ Mary Hodder]
* [http://joshkinberg.com/blog/ Joshua Kinberg]
* [[User:ChrisMessina | ChrisMessina]]
* [http://onlisareinsradar.com/ Lisa Rein]
* [[User:ManuSporny | Manu Sporny]], [http://blog.digitalbazaar.com Digital Bazaar], Inc.

== Introduction ==

Examples of what people actually publish on the Web when discussing, linking to, referring to media. This is focused predominantly on time based media such as audio and video, but may consider aspects of static media as well such as still images.

== Emphasis on Practical, Simple, and Minimal ==

Since all previous known attempts at this problem area have ended up quite complex and over-designed, this attempt will place simplicity and minimalism first and foremost.

Thus for now, this document is deliberately restricted to examples that are:
* ''Actual'' examples in practice on the Web '''with URLs''' to the originals (note, all *-examples pages should be like this, but previous attempts at documenting media info examples have mostly ignored this requirement, and thus it is necessary to be explicit).
* Representative of ''very common'' publishing behavior on the Web. This focus on common, representative examples is essential. If possible, include an estimate of the number of similar examples. E.g. ~10k.
* Simple and minimalist. As simple as possible. Go read [http://microformats.org/wiki/microformats#the_microformats_principles the microformats principles] right now before proceeding any further.

Any examples added which do not conform to these requirements will be deleted.

Any generic analysis will also be deleted. Analysis before examples is premature. Once there are sufficient media-info-examples, and hopefully a simple/clean listing of [[media-info-formats]], we'll hopefully start a [[media-info-brainstorming]] page to do aggregate analysis of the examples.

== Table of Contents ==

__TOC__

== Real World Examples ==

=== Overall Notes About Examples ===
These examples are organized into a short list of top level media categories, in the hopes that it will be easier to determine if there are media specific publishing behaviors, in addition to common behaviors across multiple types of media. Some may be subcategorized and distinguished by whether it was published by an individual publisher or a service:
* Audio (Speech, Music)
* Video
* Photos

The numbers after some of the examples' descriptions are based on numbers found pulling in media records at Dabble. Others may have higher numbers and would be encouraged to restate them if that's true.

=== Audio ===

==== Speech ====
Publication of audio speeches on blogs is often called "podcasting". In essence though, it is simply audio speech publishing. Quotes of audio files are beginning to appear, and publishers are putting up files with links to other audio files they've quoted from. Most audio appears to often have the same base elements as video and photos, with the exception of quotes.

===== Individual Publishing of Speech =====

* [http://www.microformats.org/blog/2005/09/30/web-essentials-audio/ Microformats: Web Essentials Audio]
** Appears to be composed of:
*** title/summary of the recording
*** clickable hyperlink to the recording (MP3)
** Contextual:
*** (primary) speaker is indicated in nearby text

* [http://www.thechrispirilloshow.com/help/20060119_chuck_cummins_on_windows_vista_interface_design.phtml Chris Pirillo podcast]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL(s), description or summary, categories/tags underneath what is viewable, and date. +10k

* [http://yukelzon.blogspot.com/2006/01/podcasts.html Reflog's Random Thoughts podcast]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, description or summary, creator, tags and publish time and date. +10k records.

* [http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/wordpress/2006/01/12/egc-clambake-for-january-12-2006/ Evil Genius Chronicles podcast]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, description or summary, quotes URLs and descriptions, licence, creator, tags and publish time and date. +10k records.

* [http://www(dot)bizbyjake.com/2006/01/how-are-you-doing.html media published from a blog, Jake Steinfeld's Audio Blog] NOTE: this record had trouble because mediawiki blocks any DOTbiz domains and so while this domain coincidentally has a DOTbizbyjake.com name that is not a TLD, it was still blocked in the loading of the page with this example. So please adjust the URL manually and then visit the site.
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, creator and publish time and date. +10k records.

==== Music ====

===== Individual Publishing of Music =====

* [http://www.bradsucks.net/music/ Brad Sucks » music]
** Has album title, song title, separate link to more info, inline flash player, and play link (to mp3)

* [http://www.scottandrew.com/music/ Scott Andrew - lo-fi acoustic pop superhero! > music >]
** Has album title, song title, album artwork, streaming link (to m3u), and play link (to mp3)

* [http://www.hearingdouble.co.uk/dumb/index2.html Portishead Remixed]
** Whole page is for one album (a mash-up remix of a Portishead album). Has Album Track Number and Title (linked to mp3) and Remixer's name, plus cover art. Also a link to the BitTorrent download of the whole album.

===== Service Publishing of Music =====

* [http://audiofind.ru/ AudioFind]
** [http://audiofind.ru/music/album/-/Lost%20Angel/Destination/?id=591 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: artist (link), title, genre (link), style (link), release date, label, summary, web-based purchase (link), price, artist rating, album rating, cover image
** [http://audiofind.ru/music/album/-/Lost%20Angel/Destination/?id=591 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title, length, rating, price, sample (link), web-based purchase (link)

* [http://bigpondmusic.com Telstra BigPond]
** [http://bigpondmusic.com/Album/The-Decemberists/The-Crane-Wife.aspx Album Example]
*** Information displayed: artist (link), title, genre, release date, label, summary, web-based purchase (link), subscriber price, non-subscriber price, cover image
** [http://bigpondmusic.com/Album/The-Decemberists/The-Crane-Wife.aspx Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title, artist, album, price, add to pop-list (link), sample (link), web-based purchase (link)

* [http://www.bitmunk.com/ Bitmunk]
** [http://www.bitmunk.com/showdetails?action=view&cwid=6068744 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: artist, album title, publisher, release date, genre (link), summary, long description, payees, total price, sample (link), tracks, web-based purchase (link), cover image, p2p-based purchase (link)
** [http://www.bitmunk.com/showdetails?action=view&cwid=6068746 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: artist, song title, composer, publisher, release date, genres, album, payees, total price, web-based purchase (link), p2p-based purchase (link)

* [http://music.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Music Unlimited]
** Album Example (unavailable without signing in)
** Song Example (unavailable without signing in)

* [http://downloadpunk.com Download Punk]
** [http://www.downloadpunk.com/?webaction=AlbumDetail&albumid=13202 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), label (link), physical-based purchase (link), web-based purchase (link), cover image
** [http://www.downloadpunk.com/?webaction=AlbumDetail&albumid=13202 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: title, sample (link), price, web-based purchase (link)

* [http://www.fye.com FYE]
** [http://www.fye.com/Not-Too-Late-Music_stcVVproductId7456462VVcatId458211VVviewprod.htm Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), format, release date, label (link), UPC, product id, genre, styles, cover image, regular price, store price, savings, physical-based purchase (link), tracks, description, reviews, production credits
** [http://www.fye.com/Not-Too-Late-Music_stcVVproductId7456462VVcatId458211VVviewprod.htm Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title, artist

* [http://imusic.libero.it/ iMusic]
** [http://imusic.libero.it/compilation.php?icom_id=105902&ptipo=pus&pid=171437 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), cover image, genre, release date, publisher, number of tracks, length, tracks, web-based purchase (link)
** [http://imusic.libero.it/compilation.php?icom_id=105902&ptipo=pus&pid=171437 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, length, sample (link), release date, price, web-based purchase (link)

* [http://musicdownload.aon.at/v7/ AON Music ]
** [http://www.omds.de/servlets/2452685121527Dispatch/31/Call?htmltemplate=./album/viewalbum.htm&lmtype=ALBUM&albumid=2310333 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: artist (link), album, cover image, price, format, bitrate, label, genre, number of tracks, sample (link), add bookmark (link), web-based purchase (link), tracks
** [http://www.omds.de/servlets/2452685121527Dispatch/31/Call?htmltemplate=./album/viewalbum.htm&lmtype=ALBUM&albumid=2310333 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title, length, format, price, sample (link), add bookmark (link), web-based purchase (link)

* [http://music.msn.com MSN]
** [http://music.msn.com/album/?album=50538895 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: artist (link), title, release date, label, album rating, cover image,
** Song Example (store wasn't working correctly - no song info found)

* [http://musik.tdconline.dk/servlets/2452306090224Dispatch/19/Call?htmltemplate=./index.htm TDC Online]
** [http://musik.tdconline.dk/servlets/2452306090224Dispatch/19/call?htmltemplate=./album/viewalbum.htm&trackid=5010526 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), length, release date, label, format, cover image, web-based purchase (link), price, tracks
** [http://musik.tdconline.dk/servlets/2452306090224Dispatch/19/call?htmltemplate=./album/viewalbum.htm&trackid=5010526 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title (link), price, sample (link), web-based purchase (link)

* [http://www.audiolunchbox.com Audio Lunchbox]
** [http://www.audiolunchbox.com/album?a=75751 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), label (link), genre (link), release date (link), cover image, format, bitrate, price, price in credits, web-based purchase (link), add to wishlist (link), sample (flash applet), tracks
** [http://www.audiolunchbox.com/album?a=75751 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title, length, price, price in credits, web-based purchase (link), sample (flash applet)

* [http://www.chaosmusic.com/music/ Chaos Music]
** [http://chaos.com/product.asp?intProductID=739720&intArtistID=167488 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), cover image, genre, format, release date, price, physical-based purchase (link), add to wishlist (link), tracks, description, availability
** [http://chaos.com/product.asp?intProductID=739720&intArtistID=167488 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title

* [http://www.connect-europe.com Sony Connect]
** [http://store.connect-europe.com/albumDetailPage.do?albumId=3260785 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), cover image, genre (link), release date, label, length, publisher, price, web-based purchase (link), tracks
** [http://store.connect-europe.com/albumDetailPage.do?albumId=3260785 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist, length, price, sample (link), web-based purchase (link)

* [http://www.digirama.co.nz/ Digirama]
** [http://www.digirama.co.nz/AlbumDetails.aspx?MediaID=578456 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), genre (link), label, cover image, release date, price, web-based purchase (link), license, related albums, also bought, reviews, tracks
** [http://www.digirama.co.nz/AlbumDetails.aspx?MediaID=578456 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title, length, sample (link), price, web-based purchase (link)

* [http://www.emusic.com eMusic]
** [http://www-v3.emusic.com/album/10917/10917324.html Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), sample (link), save to playlist (link), genre (link), styles (link), label (link), album rating, reviews, length, tracks, web-based purchase (link)
** [http://www-v3.emusic.com/album/10917/10917324.html Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, sample (link), tracks, length, web-based purchase (link)

* [http://www.fnacmusic.com/ FNAC]
** [http://www.fnacmusic.com/album/7088f214-6187-4845-afdc-6391e103f67d.aspx Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), cover image, length, add to playlist (link), web-based purchase (link), tracks, price, genre
** [http://www.fnacmusic.com/album/7088f214-6187-4845-afdc-6391e103f67d.aspx Song Example]
*** Information displayed: sample (link), add to playlist (link), track number, title, length, web-based purchase (link), price

* [http://sanity.com.au Sanity]
** [http://www.sanity.com.au/product/rockpop.asp?sku=-942394 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), cover image, release date, catalog ID, SKU, label, price, price in points, summary, tracks, physical-based purchase (link)
** [http://www.sanity.com.au/product/rockpop.asp?sku=-942394 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title

* [http://www.misrolas.com/ MisRolas]
** [http://www.misrolas.com/downloadmusic/album.php?id=1316 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), cover image, release date, number of tracks, album rating, price, web-based purchase (link), tracks, reviews
** [http://www.misrolas.com/downloadmusic/album.php?id=1316 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title, sample (link), artist, price, web-based purchase (link), add to wishlist (link)

* [http://www.mtv.com MTV]
** [http://www.mtv.com/#/music/artist/my_chemical_romance/albums.jhtml?albumId=1367908 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title (link), artist (link), cover image, release date, label, tracks, physical-based purchase (link)
** [http://www.mtv.com/#/music/artist/my_chemical_romance/albums.jhtml?albumId=1367908 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title, sample (link), video sample (link)

* [http://www.musica360.com/ Musica360]
** [http://musica360.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=232 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist, price, samples (flash), cover image, tracks, web-based purchase (link)
** [http://musica360.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=232 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist, price, web-based purchase (link)

* [http://www.musicload.de/ Musicload]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.musicmatch.com Musicmatch]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.musicnet.com MusicNet]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.musicnow.com AOL Music Now]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.napster.com Napster]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.nate.com Nate.com]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.nextradiosolutions.com Next Radio]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.partymob.com/edl/browse/?tab=music PartyMob]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.peerimpact.com Peer Impact]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.puretracks.com Pure Tracks]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.reggaecountry.com Reggae Country]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.rhapsody.com Real/Rhapsody]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.ruckusnetwork.com Ruckus]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.sanity.com.au Sanity]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.soundbuzz.com Soundbuzz]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.starbucks.com Starbucks]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.starzik.com/starzik.php Starzik SARL]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.streetcds.com/ Street CDs]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.synacor.com/content/index.php Synacor]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.telecomitalia.com/ Telecom Italia]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.terra.es/pixbox/ Pixbox (Terra) ]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.thecellcity.com CellCity]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.top100.cn top100.cn]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.virgin.com/downloads Virgin Digital]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.virgindigital.com Virgin Digital]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.virginmega.fr/ Virgin]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.wippit.com/default.aspx Wippit]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.yanga.ru Yanga]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.yeahronimo.nl Yeahronimo (Commodoreworld)]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.somesongs.com/ somesongs]
** Has song title (linked to more info), artist (linked to more info), play link (to mp3), and rating

* [http://magnatune.com/genres/rock/ Magnatune]
** Has artist (linked to more info), artist description, album title (linked to more info), lofi streaming link (to m3u), hifi streaming link (to m3u), link to more info, link to license info, link to purchase info.

* [http://www.songfight.org/ SONG FIGHT!]
** Has theme, artist/play link (to mp3).

* [http://www.yes.com/ Yes.com]
** Music played in last hour ([http://www.yes.com/lookup.php?s=WERS example])
*** Flash page with track play time, artist, title, cover art. Affiliate linked to iTunes music store.
** Top 100 Chart ([http://www.yes.com/top100.php?s=WXKS example])
*** HTML page with chart position, last week's chart position, artist, title (affiliate link to iTunes music store)

* MySpace (examples: [http://myspace.com/theradioknives] [http://www.myspace.com/singsinguk] [http://www.myspace.com/arcticmonkeys])
** Artist pages containing embedded flash players. Song title starts song playing on embedded player. Download link optionally links to mp3.
** Link to artist's homepage, band members, influences, biography.

* [http://musicbrainz.org MusicBrainz.org]
** MusicBrainz provides a catalog of music metadata such as the [http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/ArtistName artist name], the [http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/ReleaseTitle release title], and the list of [http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Track tracks] that appear on a release.
** Since 2005, users have the option to further relate each of these entities using a detailed set of [http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/AdvancedRelationships relationships] (i.e. who played which instrument on a release/track).
** Examples: [http://musicbrainz.org/browseartists.html browse] and [http://musicbrainz.org/search.html search] the catalog

* [http://reactor-core.org/ogg-tagging.html Vorbis Comment Recommendations]
** Comment fields development by the Ogg/Vorbis community to consistently describe audio files.

* [http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/techspecs.html iTunes RSS extensions]
** The DTD used to add richer data to media available in podcasts via the iTunes Music Store.

* [http://www.discogs.com/ Discogs]
** Extensive database with labels, artists, albums, etc. Also has extremely detailed submission guidelines that probably qualify for a media-info format.

=== Video ===
Publication of video on blogs often goes by "videoblogging", "vlogging", "VODcasting", or "video podcasting". The typical process involves publishing a direct link to the video file within the blog entry. The blog entry can, but does not have to, include an embedded video player. Many videos include a thumbnail jpg which is clickable to the media object and player. Some video includes links to those other source videos, photos and audio that have been quoted. Most videos have the same base elements as photos and audio, with the exception of quotes.

==== Individual publishing of video ====

* [http://FreeVlog.org FreeVlog]: the most popular tutorial on the web describing the videoblogging process by combining free tools and services (Blogger, OurMedia/Internet Archive, FeedBurner).
** According to this process, a videoblog entry contains:
*** Direct link to the video file
*** Clickable thumbnail image/screen capture of the video
*** Contextual information about the video (title, description, etc) is usually contained in the surrounding blog entry

* [http://joshkinberg.com/popupmaker Video Pop Up Maker]
** This example based on the process taught at [http://FreeVlog.org FreeVlog] generates code to create a dynamic pop up window with embedded video player. The reasons for this are enumerated [http://www.unmediated.org/archives/2005/10/easily_create_p.php here]

* [http://ryanedit.blogspot.com/2006/01/light-water-music-2.html Ryanne's Video Blog]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, thumbnail url, description or summary, creator, and publish time. +50k

* [http://www.prototypen.com/blog/vjblog/archives/001244.html Artificial Eye: fALks world news view 05|07|11 video post]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, thumbnail url, description or summary, creator, quotes URLs and description, and publish time. +10k (quotes +5k)

* [http://www.itsjerrytime.com/ It's JerryTime! - episodic video content]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, thumbnail url and creator. +10k records.

* [http://www.bottomunion.com/blog/ Bottom Union combined video + text blog]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, thumbnail URL, description or summary, creator, tags and publish time and date. +5k blogs

* [http://kitchenarts.blogspot.com/ KitchenArts instructional/marketing video blog]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, thumbnail URL, description or summary, creator, and publish time and date. +5k blogs

* [http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2005/12/06.html#a1348 Jon Udell's Weblog: Greasemonkeying Google Videomedia - blog post with quoting of video via greasemonkey plugin]. This example *may* be better suited to a study from the perspective of a citation.
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, description or summary, creator, quote URLs and description, license and publish time. >100 records but is climbing rapidly.

* [http://rocketboom.com/vlog/ Rocketboom daily with amanda congdon - daily video posting in a blog-like format, with quoting of video, audio photos]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, description or summary, creator, quote URLs and description, license and publish time. This example also "auto-plays", that is, starts playing the video in the normal browser/HTML view upon loading of the page. +20k

==== Service publishing of video ====

* [http://blip.tv/ blip.tv - video blogging, podcasting and sharing service]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, thumbnail URL, description or summary, license, creator, tags and upload time. +1m across all hosters. +10k records.

* [http://youtube.com/ YouTube - Broadcast Yourself - video hosting and sharing service]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, thumbnail URL, description or summary, license, creator, tags and upload time. +1m across all hosters. +15k records.

* [http://mefeedia.com/ Mefeedia] - Mefeedia is the best place to find free videoblogs or video podcasts.
** This example has a Title, Html URL, thumbnail URL, thumbnail title, media type overlay icon, creator.

* [http://vimeo.com/ Vimeo] - The Flickr of Video
** This example has a Title, thumbnail (class=moduleClipThumb), thumbnail URL, Html URL, creator.

* [http://DailyMotion.com/ DailyMotion] - Watch, publish, share
** This example has a thumbnail (class=category_minilist_item_video_preview_image), with an Html URL, thumbnail URL, certain info (class=category_minilist_infos), title (class=category_minilist_item_title), href to country tag (with image icon with class=category_minilist_item_flag, image title set to country name).

=== Photos ===
* A few photos online have region annotation and quoting. But as tools are developed that are usable for mass publishers, this will likely increase.
* Many videos have thumbnails that are jpgs.
* Many videos use pictures and therefore the pictures themselves are quotes from the video.
* Most photos have the same elements as videos and audio, with the exception of quotes.

==== Individual Publishing of Photos ====
* [http://blog.bouckenooghe.com/2005/09/01/em6-a-est-fache-avec-le-centimetre/ Blog A Brac » E=m6 a est fâché avec le centimètre - photo with annotated screen-caps]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, description or summary, creator, quotes and descriptions, tags/categories, and publish date and time. +200 across all individually blogged photos.
* [http://scribbling.net/projects/fotonotesrolloverviewer/fotonotesplugin.php?p=helicopterovernyc.jpg Scribbling.net implementation of Fotonotes Plugin demonstrating the fotonotes annotation tool for photos]
** This example has media url, quotes and descriptions, creator. +200 across all individually blogged photos.

* For more work along the lines of 2d annotations, please see (and add to) [[photo-note-examples]].

==== Service publishing of photos ====

* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/500hats/50282408/ Flickr - Photo Sharing instance of a photo.]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, description or summary, quotes URLs and descriptions, licence, tags, upload time, playlist (set), license, creator, and other capture data. +millions across all hosters. +millions of records.

* [http://www.webshots.com/search?query=san+francisco&new=1&source=search_results_top Webshots - Search results, gallery view.]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, creator, licence, Premium/Standard access.

* [http://www.webshots.com/g/32/579-sh/25695.html Webshots - Single photo view.]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, creator, licence, link to creator's other photos. Three alternate download sizes, link to buy a print. Link to add as favorite. Link to next, previous photos in collection. Photo belongs to generic category (no tags). Links to related photo searches.

== Notes on Existing Practices ==

Mary Hodder:
* We are finding as we look at thousands of user generated media records, that all have titles, creator, at least a default licensing, most have tags whose functionality is made available through the hosting service (the richer the media, the more likely tagging goes toward 100%), Html and media URLs, thumbnail URLs, publishing date, and about 25% have quoting information of some sort (quotes of video or audio, and region quotes of photos).
* Tags apparently appear at the upload point on 61% of photos in Flickr, and within a short period, 80+% have tags. 12% of users in Flickr apparently tag photos other than their own.

Manu Sporny (on music):
* There is an increasing number of sites that link to different methods of acquiring content displayed on a web page. These may include links to high-quality, or full versins of the media being described on the page. The various options include: free, streaming with ads, one-time purchase, and rental.
* Summaries, long descriptions and reviews are also prevalent in some of the content.

Manu Sporny (on video):
* We should attempt to support the basic information on sites that have been operational for years such as IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes among others. These sites tend to have very detailed information on all things related to video and TV - other sites will follow their lead because their meta-data seems to be the most complete on the web - thus making every other site contain a sub-set of their meta-data.

== Next Steps ==
# Add more real-world, simple, minimal examples.
# Research and organize existing/previous [[media-info-formats]], with a focus on formats for publishing '''common''', '''user-visible''' media information.
# Start [[media-info-brainstorming]] based on examples.

== See Also ==
* [[media-metadata-examples]] - previous attempt to catalog and organize top down metadata systems generated by engineers and committees, as examples of elements, and includes formats which should be in a separate page. Useful as a source of research but this microformat needs to embrace the bottomup ways users are publishing photos, video and audio online.

media-info-examples

2007-02-13T05:27:32Z

MikeJohnson: /* Service Publishing of Music */

= Media Info Examples =

== Contributors ==

* [[User:RodBegbie | RodBegbie]]
* [http://tantek.com/log/ Tantek Çelik]
* [http://napsterization.org/stories/ Mary Hodder]
* [http://joshkinberg.com/blog/ Joshua Kinberg]
* [[User:ChrisMessina | ChrisMessina]]
* [http://onlisareinsradar.com/ Lisa Rein]
* [[User:ManuSporny | Manu Sporny]], [http://blog.digitalbazaar.com Digital Bazaar], Inc.

== Introduction ==

Examples of what people actually publish on the Web when discussing, linking to, referring to media. This is focused predominantly on time based media such as audio and video, but may consider aspects of static media as well such as still images.

== Emphasis on Practical, Simple, and Minimal ==

Since all previous known attempts at this problem area have ended up quite complex and over-designed, this attempt will place simplicity and minimalism first and foremost.

Thus for now, this document is deliberately restricted to examples that are:
* ''Actual'' examples in practice on the Web '''with URLs''' to the originals (note, all *-examples pages should be like this, but previous attempts at documenting media info examples have mostly ignored this requirement, and thus it is necessary to be explicit).
* Representative of ''very common'' publishing behavior on the Web. This focus on common, representative examples is essential. If possible, include an estimate of the number of similar examples. E.g. ~10k.
* Simple and minimalist. As simple as possible. Go read [http://microformats.org/wiki/microformats#the_microformats_principles the microformats principles] right now before proceeding any further.

Any examples added which do not conform to these requirements will be deleted.

Any generic analysis will also be deleted. Analysis before examples is premature. Once there are sufficient media-info-examples, and hopefully a simple/clean listing of [[media-info-formats]], we'll hopefully start a [[media-info-brainstorming]] page to do aggregate analysis of the examples.

== Table of Contents ==

__TOC__

== Real World Examples ==

=== Overall Notes About Examples ===
These examples are organized into a short list of top level media categories, in the hopes that it will be easier to determine if there are media specific publishing behaviors, in addition to common behaviors across multiple types of media. Some may be subcategorized and distinguished by whether it was published by an individual publisher or a service:
* Audio (Speech, Music)
* Video
* Photos

The numbers after some of the examples' descriptions are based on numbers found pulling in media records at Dabble. Others may have higher numbers and would be encouraged to restate them if that's true.

=== Audio ===

==== Speech ====
Publication of audio speeches on blogs is often called "podcasting". In essence though, it is simply audio speech publishing. Quotes of audio files are beginning to appear, and publishers are putting up files with links to other audio files they've quoted from. Most audio appears to often have the same base elements as video and photos, with the exception of quotes.

===== Individual Publishing of Speech =====

* [http://www.microformats.org/blog/2005/09/30/web-essentials-audio/ Microformats: Web Essentials Audio]
** Appears to be composed of:
*** title/summary of the recording
*** clickable hyperlink to the recording (MP3)
** Contextual:
*** (primary) speaker is indicated in nearby text

* [http://www.thechrispirilloshow.com/help/20060119_chuck_cummins_on_windows_vista_interface_design.phtml Chris Pirillo podcast]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL(s), description or summary, categories/tags underneath what is viewable, and date. +10k

* [http://yukelzon.blogspot.com/2006/01/podcasts.html Reflog's Random Thoughts podcast]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, description or summary, creator, tags and publish time and date. +10k records.

* [http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/wordpress/2006/01/12/egc-clambake-for-january-12-2006/ Evil Genius Chronicles podcast]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, description or summary, quotes URLs and descriptions, licence, creator, tags and publish time and date. +10k records.

* [http://www(dot)bizbyjake.com/2006/01/how-are-you-doing.html media published from a blog, Jake Steinfeld's Audio Blog] NOTE: this record had trouble because mediawiki blocks any DOTbiz domains and so while this domain coincidentally has a DOTbizbyjake.com name that is not a TLD, it was still blocked in the loading of the page with this example. So please adjust the URL manually and then visit the site.
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, creator and publish time and date. +10k records.

==== Music ====

===== Individual Publishing of Music =====

* [http://www.bradsucks.net/music/ Brad Sucks » music]
** Has album title, song title, separate link to more info, inline flash player, and play link (to mp3)

* [http://www.scottandrew.com/music/ Scott Andrew - lo-fi acoustic pop superhero! > music >]
** Has album title, song title, album artwork, streaming link (to m3u), and play link (to mp3)

* [http://www.hearingdouble.co.uk/dumb/index2.html Portishead Remixed]
** Whole page is for one album (a mash-up remix of a Portishead album). Has Album Track Number and Title (linked to mp3) and Remixer's name, plus cover art. Also a link to the BitTorrent download of the whole album.

===== Service Publishing of Music =====

* [http://audiofind.ru/ AudioFind]
** [http://audiofind.ru/music/album/-/Lost%20Angel/Destination/?id=591 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: artist (link), title, genre (link), style (link), release date, label, summary, web-based purchase (link), price, artist rating, album rating, cover image
** [http://audiofind.ru/music/album/-/Lost%20Angel/Destination/?id=591 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title, length, rating, price, sample (link), web-based purchase (link)

* [http://bigpondmusic.com Telstra BigPond]
** [http://bigpondmusic.com/Album/The-Decemberists/The-Crane-Wife.aspx Album Example]
*** Information displayed: artist (link), title, genre, release date, label, summary, web-based purchase (link), subscriber price, non-subscriber price, cover image
** [http://bigpondmusic.com/Album/The-Decemberists/The-Crane-Wife.aspx Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title, artist, album, price, add to pop-list (link), sample (link), web-based purchase (link)

* [http://www.bitmunk.com/ Bitmunk]
** [http://www.bitmunk.com/showdetails?action=view&cwid=6068744 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: artist, album title, publisher, release date, genre (link), summary, long description, payees, total price, sample (link), tracks, web-based purchase (link), cover image, p2p-based purchase (link)
** [http://www.bitmunk.com/showdetails?action=view&cwid=6068746 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: artist, song title, composer, publisher, release date, genres, album, payees, total price, web-based purchase (link), p2p-based purchase (link)

* [http://music.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Music Unlimited]
** Album Example (unavailable without signing in)
** Song Example (unavailable without signing in)

* [http://downloadpunk.com Download Punk]
** [http://www.downloadpunk.com/?webaction=AlbumDetail&albumid=13202 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), label (link), physical-based purchase (link), web-based purchase (link), cover image
** [http://www.downloadpunk.com/?webaction=AlbumDetail&albumid=13202 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: title, sample (link), price, web-based purchase (link)

* [http://www.fye.com FYE]
** [http://www.fye.com/Not-Too-Late-Music_stcVVproductId7456462VVcatId458211VVviewprod.htm Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), format, release date, label (link), UPC, product id, genre, styles, cover image, regular price, store price, savings, physical-based purchase (link), tracks, description, reviews, production credits
** [http://www.fye.com/Not-Too-Late-Music_stcVVproductId7456462VVcatId458211VVviewprod.htm Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title, artist

* [http://imusic.libero.it/ iMusic]
** [http://imusic.libero.it/compilation.php?icom_id=105902&ptipo=pus&pid=171437 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), cover image, genre, release date, publisher, number of tracks, length, tracks, web-based purchase (link)
** [http://imusic.libero.it/compilation.php?icom_id=105902&ptipo=pus&pid=171437 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, length, sample (link), release date, price, web-based purchase (link)

* [http://musicdownload.aon.at/v7/ AON Music ]
** [http://www.omds.de/servlets/2452685121527Dispatch/31/Call?htmltemplate=./album/viewalbum.htm&lmtype=ALBUM&albumid=2310333 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: artist (link), album, cover image, price, format, bitrate, label, genre, number of tracks, sample (link), add bookmark (link), web-based purchase (link), tracks
** [http://www.omds.de/servlets/2452685121527Dispatch/31/Call?htmltemplate=./album/viewalbum.htm&lmtype=ALBUM&albumid=2310333 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title, length, format, price, sample (link), add bookmark (link), web-based purchase (link)

* [http://music.msn.com MSN]
** [http://music.msn.com/album/?album=50538895 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: artist (link), title, release date, label, album rating, cover image,
** Song Example (store wasn't working correctly - no song info found)

* [http://musik.tdconline.dk/servlets/2452306090224Dispatch/19/Call?htmltemplate=./index.htm TDC Online]
** [http://musik.tdconline.dk/servlets/2452306090224Dispatch/19/call?htmltemplate=./album/viewalbum.htm&trackid=5010526 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), length, release date, label, format, cover image, web-based purchase (link), price, tracks
** [http://musik.tdconline.dk/servlets/2452306090224Dispatch/19/call?htmltemplate=./album/viewalbum.htm&trackid=5010526 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title (link), price, sample (link), web-based purchase (link)

* [http://www.audiolunchbox.com Audio Lunchbox]
** [http://www.audiolunchbox.com/album?a=75751 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), label (link), genre (link), release date (link), cover image, format, bitrate, price, price in credits, web-based purchase (link), add to wishlist (link), sample (flash applet), tracks
** [http://www.audiolunchbox.com/album?a=75751 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title, length, price, price in credits, web-based purchase (link), sample (flash applet)

* [http://www.chaosmusic.com/music/ Chaos Music]
** [http://chaos.com/product.asp?intProductID=739720&intArtistID=167488 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), cover image, genre, format, release date, price, physical-based purchase (link), add to wishlist (link), tracks, description, availability
** [http://chaos.com/product.asp?intProductID=739720&intArtistID=167488 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title

* [http://www.connect-europe.com Sony Connect]
** [http://store.connect-europe.com/albumDetailPage.do?albumId=3260785 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), cover image, genre (link), release date, label, length, publisher, price, web-based purchase (link), tracks
** [http://store.connect-europe.com/albumDetailPage.do?albumId=3260785 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist, length, price, sample (link), web-based purchase (link)

* [http://www.digirama.co.nz/ Digirama]
** [http://www.digirama.co.nz/AlbumDetails.aspx?MediaID=578456 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), genre (link), label, cover image, release date, price, web-based purchase (link), license, related albums, also bought, reviews, tracks
** [http://www.digirama.co.nz/AlbumDetails.aspx?MediaID=578456 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title, length, sample (link), price, web-based purchase (link)

* [http://www.emusic.com eMusic]
** [http://www-v3.emusic.com/album/10917/10917324.html Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), sample (link), save to playlist (link), genre (link), styles (link), label (link), album rating, reviews, length, tracks, web-based purchase (link)
** [http://www-v3.emusic.com/album/10917/10917324.html Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, sample (link), tracks, length, web-based purchase (link)

* [http://www.fnacmusic.com/ FNAC]
** [http://www.fnacmusic.com/album/7088f214-6187-4845-afdc-6391e103f67d.aspx Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), cover image, length, add to playlist (link), web-based purchase (link), tracks, price, genre
** [http://www.fnacmusic.com/album/7088f214-6187-4845-afdc-6391e103f67d.aspx Song Example]
*** Information displayed: sample (link), add to playlist (link), track number, title, length, web-based purchase (link), price

* [http://sanity.com.au Sanity]
** [http://www.sanity.com.au/product/rockpop.asp?sku=-942394 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), cover image, release date, catalog ID, SKU, label, price, price in points, summary, tracks, physical-based purchase (link)
** [http://www.sanity.com.au/product/rockpop.asp?sku=-942394 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title

* [http://www.misrolas.com/ MisRolas]
** [http://www.misrolas.com/downloadmusic/album.php?id=1316 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist (link), cover image, release date, number of tracks, album rating, price, web-based purchase (link), tracks, reviews
** [http://www.misrolas.com/downloadmusic/album.php?id=1316 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title, sample (link), artist, price, web-based purchase (link), add to wishlist (link)

* [http://www.mtv.com MTV]
** [http://www.mtv.com/#/music/artist/my_chemical_romance/albums.jhtml?albumId=1367908 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title (link), artist (link), cover image, release date, label, tracks, physical-based purchase (link)
** [http://www.mtv.com/#/music/artist/my_chemical_romance/albums.jhtml?albumId=1367908 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: track number, title, sample (link), video sample (link)

* [http://www.musica360.com/ Musica360]
** [http://musica360.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=232 Album Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist, price, samples (flash), cover image, tracks, web-based purchase (link)
** [http://musica360.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=232 Song Example]
*** Information displayed: title, artist, price

* [http://www.musicload.de/ Musicload]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.musicmatch.com Musicmatch]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.musicnet.com MusicNet]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.musicnow.com AOL Music Now]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.napster.com Napster]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.nate.com Nate.com]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.nextradiosolutions.com Next Radio]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.partymob.com/edl/browse/?tab=music PartyMob]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.peerimpact.com Peer Impact]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.puretracks.com Pure Tracks]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.reggaecountry.com Reggae Country]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.rhapsody.com Real/Rhapsody]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.ruckusnetwork.com Ruckus]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.sanity.com.au Sanity]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
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* [http://www.soundbuzz.com Soundbuzz]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.starbucks.com Starbucks]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
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* [http://www.starzik.com/starzik.php Starzik SARL]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.streetcds.com/ Street CDs]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.synacor.com/content/index.php Synacor]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.telecomitalia.com/ Telecom Italia]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.terra.es/pixbox/ Pixbox (Terra) ]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
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* [http://www.thecellcity.com CellCity]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.top100.cn top100.cn]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.virgin.com/downloads Virgin Digital]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.virgindigital.com Virgin Digital]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.virginmega.fr/ Virgin]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
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* [http://www.wippit.com/default.aspx Wippit]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.yanga.ru Yanga]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.yeahronimo.nl Yeahronimo (Commodoreworld)]
** Album Example
*** Information displayed:
** Song Example
*** Information displayed:

* [http://www.somesongs.com/ somesongs]
** Has song title (linked to more info), artist (linked to more info), play link (to mp3), and rating

* [http://magnatune.com/genres/rock/ Magnatune]
** Has artist (linked to more info), artist description, album title (linked to more info), lofi streaming link (to m3u), hifi streaming link (to m3u), link to more info, link to license info, link to purchase info.

* [http://www.songfight.org/ SONG FIGHT!]
** Has theme, artist/play link (to mp3).

* [http://www.yes.com/ Yes.com]
** Music played in last hour ([http://www.yes.com/lookup.php?s=WERS example])
*** Flash page with track play time, artist, title, cover art. Affiliate linked to iTunes music store.
** Top 100 Chart ([http://www.yes.com/top100.php?s=WXKS example])
*** HTML page with chart position, last week's chart position, artist, title (affiliate link to iTunes music store)

* MySpace (examples: [http://myspace.com/theradioknives] [http://www.myspace.com/singsinguk] [http://www.myspace.com/arcticmonkeys])
** Artist pages containing embedded flash players. Song title starts song playing on embedded player. Download link optionally links to mp3.
** Link to artist's homepage, band members, influences, biography.

* [http://musicbrainz.org MusicBrainz.org]
** MusicBrainz provides a catalog of music metadata such as the [http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/ArtistName artist name], the [http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/ReleaseTitle release title], and the list of [http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Track tracks] that appear on a release.
** Since 2005, users have the option to further relate each of these entities using a detailed set of [http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/AdvancedRelationships relationships] (i.e. who played which instrument on a release/track).
** Examples: [http://musicbrainz.org/browseartists.html browse] and [http://musicbrainz.org/search.html search] the catalog

* [http://reactor-core.org/ogg-tagging.html Vorbis Comment Recommendations]
** Comment fields development by the Ogg/Vorbis community to consistently describe audio files.

* [http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/techspecs.html iTunes RSS extensions]
** The DTD used to add richer data to media available in podcasts via the iTunes Music Store.

* [http://www.discogs.com/ Discogs]
** Extensive database with labels, artists, albums, etc. Also has extremely detailed submission guidelines that probably qualify for a media-info format.

=== Video ===
Publication of video on blogs often goes by "videoblogging", "vlogging", "VODcasting", or "video podcasting". The typical process involves publishing a direct link to the video file within the blog entry. The blog entry can, but does not have to, include an embedded video player. Many videos include a thumbnail jpg which is clickable to the media object and player. Some video includes links to those other source videos, photos and audio that have been quoted. Most videos have the same base elements as photos and audio, with the exception of quotes.

==== Individual publishing of video ====

* [http://FreeVlog.org FreeVlog]: the most popular tutorial on the web describing the videoblogging process by combining free tools and services (Blogger, OurMedia/Internet Archive, FeedBurner).
** According to this process, a videoblog entry contains:
*** Direct link to the video file
*** Clickable thumbnail image/screen capture of the video
*** Contextual information about the video (title, description, etc) is usually contained in the surrounding blog entry

* [http://joshkinberg.com/popupmaker Video Pop Up Maker]
** This example based on the process taught at [http://FreeVlog.org FreeVlog] generates code to create a dynamic pop up window with embedded video player. The reasons for this are enumerated [http://www.unmediated.org/archives/2005/10/easily_create_p.php here]

* [http://ryanedit.blogspot.com/2006/01/light-water-music-2.html Ryanne's Video Blog]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, thumbnail url, description or summary, creator, and publish time. +50k

* [http://www.prototypen.com/blog/vjblog/archives/001244.html Artificial Eye: fALks world news view 05|07|11 video post]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, thumbnail url, description or summary, creator, quotes URLs and description, and publish time. +10k (quotes +5k)

* [http://www.itsjerrytime.com/ It's JerryTime! - episodic video content]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, thumbnail url and creator. +10k records.

* [http://www.bottomunion.com/blog/ Bottom Union combined video + text blog]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, thumbnail URL, description or summary, creator, tags and publish time and date. +5k blogs

* [http://kitchenarts.blogspot.com/ KitchenArts instructional/marketing video blog]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, thumbnail URL, description or summary, creator, and publish time and date. +5k blogs

* [http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2005/12/06.html#a1348 Jon Udell's Weblog: Greasemonkeying Google Videomedia - blog post with quoting of video via greasemonkey plugin]. This example *may* be better suited to a study from the perspective of a citation.
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, description or summary, creator, quote URLs and description, license and publish time. >100 records but is climbing rapidly.

* [http://rocketboom.com/vlog/ Rocketboom daily with amanda congdon - daily video posting in a blog-like format, with quoting of video, audio photos]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, description or summary, creator, quote URLs and description, license and publish time. This example also "auto-plays", that is, starts playing the video in the normal browser/HTML view upon loading of the page. +20k

==== Service publishing of video ====

* [http://blip.tv/ blip.tv - video blogging, podcasting and sharing service]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, thumbnail URL, description or summary, license, creator, tags and upload time. +1m across all hosters. +10k records.

* [http://youtube.com/ YouTube - Broadcast Yourself - video hosting and sharing service]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, thumbnail URL, description or summary, license, creator, tags and upload time. +1m across all hosters. +15k records.

* [http://mefeedia.com/ Mefeedia] - Mefeedia is the best place to find free videoblogs or video podcasts.
** This example has a Title, Html URL, thumbnail URL, thumbnail title, media type overlay icon, creator.

* [http://vimeo.com/ Vimeo] - The Flickr of Video
** This example has a Title, thumbnail (class=moduleClipThumb), thumbnail URL, Html URL, creator.

* [http://DailyMotion.com/ DailyMotion] - Watch, publish, share
** This example has a thumbnail (class=category_minilist_item_video_preview_image), with an Html URL, thumbnail URL, certain info (class=category_minilist_infos), title (class=category_minilist_item_title), href to country tag (with image icon with class=category_minilist_item_flag, image title set to country name).

=== Photos ===
* A few photos online have region annotation and quoting. But as tools are developed that are usable for mass publishers, this will likely increase.
* Many videos have thumbnails that are jpgs.
* Many videos use pictures and therefore the pictures themselves are quotes from the video.
* Most photos have the same elements as videos and audio, with the exception of quotes.

==== Individual Publishing of Photos ====
* [http://blog.bouckenooghe.com/2005/09/01/em6-a-est-fache-avec-le-centimetre/ Blog A Brac » E=m6 a est fâché avec le centimètre - photo with annotated screen-caps]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, description or summary, creator, quotes and descriptions, tags/categories, and publish date and time. +200 across all individually blogged photos.
* [http://scribbling.net/projects/fotonotesrolloverviewer/fotonotesplugin.php?p=helicopterovernyc.jpg Scribbling.net implementation of Fotonotes Plugin demonstrating the fotonotes annotation tool for photos]
** This example has media url, quotes and descriptions, creator. +200 across all individually blogged photos.

* For more work along the lines of 2d annotations, please see (and add to) [[photo-note-examples]].

==== Service publishing of photos ====

* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/500hats/50282408/ Flickr - Photo Sharing instance of a photo.]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, media URL, description or summary, quotes URLs and descriptions, licence, tags, upload time, playlist (set), license, creator, and other capture data. +millions across all hosters. +millions of records.

* [http://www.webshots.com/search?query=san+francisco&new=1&source=search_results_top Webshots - Search results, gallery view.]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, creator, licence, Premium/Standard access.

* [http://www.webshots.com/g/32/579-sh/25695.html Webshots - Single photo view.]
** This example has a Title, Html URL, creator, licence, link to creator's other photos. Three alternate download sizes, link to buy a print. Link to add as favorite. Link to next, previous photos in collection. Photo belongs to generic category (no tags). Links to related photo searches.

== Notes on Existing Practices ==

Mary Hodder:
* We are finding as we look at thousands of user generated media records, that all have titles, creator, at least a default licensing, most have tags whose functionality is made available through the hosting service (the richer the media, the more likely tagging goes toward 100%), Html and media URLs, thumbnail URLs, publishing date, and about 25% have quoting information of some sort (quotes of video or audio, and region quotes of photos).
* Tags apparently appear at the upload point on 61% of photos in Flickr, and within a short period, 80+% have tags. 12% of users in Flickr apparently tag photos other than their own.

Manu Sporny (on music):
* There is an increasing number of sites that link to different methods of acquiring content displayed on a web page. These may include links to high-quality, or full versins of the media being described on the page. The various options include: free, streaming with ads, one-time purchase, and rental.
* Summaries, long descriptions and reviews are also prevalent in some of the content.

Manu Sporny (on video):
* We should attempt to support the basic information on sites that have been operational for years such as IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes among others. These sites tend to have very detailed information on all things related to video and TV - other sites will follow their lead because their meta-data seems to be the most complete on the web - thus making every other site contain a sub-set of their meta-data.

== Next Steps ==
# Add more real-world, simple, minimal examples.
# Research and organize existing/previous [[media-info-formats]], with a focus on formats for publishing '''common''', '''user-visible''' media information.
# Start [[media-info-brainstorming]] based on examples.

== See Also ==
* [[media-metadata-examples]] - previous attempt to catalog and organize top down metadata systems generated by engineers and committees, as examples of elements, and includes formats which should be in a separate page. Useful as a source of research but this microformat needs to embrace the bottomup ways users are publishing photos, video and audio online.