Video metadata process update

Below is a repost from the Transmission site http://transmission.cc/node/66

It's a little late in the day but for anyone working in the area of alternative video media this metadata project will be an invaluable resource for sharing and raising visibility of your work on the web. In the FLOSS style of things this is a project that also needs volunteers to help look at implementation and further development.

START

Thanks to some funding from the alt-media-res project, we now have a draft metadata standard PDF prepared by JJ King and Jan Gerber:

This report and proposal is under consultation within Transmission-connected networks until Monday November 6th;

We are looking for substantive responses, feedback, proposals, in particular direct inputs from the other Transmission working groups - eg Translation/Subtitling, DoNoHarm, Aggregator R&D, Documentation....

I am posting summaries of responses in the wiki and hope that people with experience of this field of work can suggest practical ways forward to finalise and then begin to implement the standard.

After 6th November we will gather the working group together to review and improve the schema, spec out next steps etc. please add to and improve the metadata to do list

As part of this process, JJ King and I have drafted a proposal for implementation of this standard.

28th October 2006