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TV-Anytime Metadata Authoring Tool

Jung Won KangDigital Broadcasting Research Division

ETRI

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Overview Features & Functions Applications Demonstrations

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Overview

Purpose of TVA metadata authoring tool• To create and edit metadata compliant to the metadata

specification of the TV Anytime Forum (Phase 1)

• To visualize the structural and semantic aspects of metadata effectively

– By incorporating XML and media handling technology

• To support various kinds of inter-operations between metadata and related content

– Providing convenient environments to users

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Features & Functions

Based on the normative metadata specification of TV Anytime Forum

Visualization of XML-based metadata• To visualize the content of metadata in an effective way and support

editing on the visualized sheet– Pure text– Template-based visualization– Tree-style visualization

Reusability• To load existing metadata to the memory device after parsing/validation

and output the edited metadata in XML format

Media handling capacity• To support basic VCR functions

– play, pause, fast-forward, and random access

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Features & Functions

Automation• To be equipped with some automation tools for authoring segment metada

ta (e.g. shot boundary detection, keyframe extraction, metadata fragmentation, compression)

Real-time auditing• To audit user interaction in real-time

Compression• To save results into a valid XML document or encode as BiM stream

Archiving system• To store and search the authored metadata in the archive

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Features & Functions

Metadata Visualization - Pure text

Basic VCR functions

Keyframes in shots

Three-types of metadata

visualization

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Features & Functions Metadata Visualization - Template-based visualization

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Features & Functions

Metadata Visualization – Tree-style visualization

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Applications

Generating and editing tool of metadata related to broadcasting program• To provide search and browsing based on EPG

Contents browser based on metadata Broadcasting contents archiving system of huge

volume

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Demonstration

TV-Anytime Metadata Authoring Tool