media-metadata-examples
This is an exploratory page to be used for storage of various multimedia metadata profiles currently in use around the web. As this is a very, very early exploration, we should include as many types of multimedia as possible in the opening discussion - but please be sure to place your profiles in the correct portion of this page.
Purpose of this exploration (or : The Problem)
The purpose of the studies on this page is to determine the feasibility and demand for a flexible, semantic markup format for providing metadata alongside linked multimedia files. Typically, this metadata is stored within the header of the media file itself - which has massive implications for any application where metadata is to be indexed, searched, or made externally accessible. Of course, even if you could easily access the correct portions of a media file remotely, you'd still have to cope with a multitude of open and proprietary metadata formats, each with it's own distinct fieldset, nomenclature and storage method.
This study aims to make a start at solving this problem.
Still image
Audio
- iTunes
- Album : String
- Artist : String
- Beats Per Minute : Number
- Bit Rate : Number
- Comment : Blob
- Composer : String
- Genre : String or Foreign ID
- Disc Number : Number
- Kind : Proprietary - could be implimented as MIME type
- My Rating : Number < 5
- Sample Rate : Number
- Size : Number
- Time : Number
- Track Number : Number
- Year : Number
- Additional metadata used internally by the application : Date Added (Timestamp), Date Modified (Timestamp), Equalizer (foreign ID), Play Count (Number), Grouping (Internal)
- Noteable absences : Tags, License, Copyright year
Video
- EXIF - Yes, the spec deals with video taken by still cameras. -RyanKing