Information Technology - Multimedia Content Description Interface - Part 5: Multimedia Description Schemes

CSA Group
Standards Development Organisation:
Canadian Standards Association (operating as CSA Group)
Working Program:
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Designation Number:
CAN/CSA-ISO/IEC 15938-5:04 (R2014)
Standard Type:
National Standard of Canada - Adoption of International Standard
Standard Development Activity:
Reaffirmation
Status:
Proceeding to development
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SDO Comment Period End Date:
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Scope:

1.1 Organization of the document

This International Standard specifies a metadata system for describing multimedia content. This document specifies the Multimedia Description Schemes (MDS) description tools (Description Schemes, Descriptors, and datatypes) that comprise ISO/IEC 15938-5. The following set of subclauses are provided for each MDS description tool, where optional subclauses are indicated as (optional):

• Syntax: specifies the normative syntax of the description tool using Description Definition Language (DDL) (see ISO/IEC 15938-2).
• Binary syntax (optional): specifies the normative binary representation for the description tool, where relevant. If a binary syntax is not specified, then the binary coding method of ISO/IEC 15938-1 shall apply for the description tool.
• Semantic: specifies the normative semantics of the description tool and each of its components (attributes and elements).
• Informative examples (optional): provides informative examples that illustrate the use or instantiation of the description tool in creating descriptions.

Project need:

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