Hi Alan,

In my opinion the key audiovisual metadata model which is approaching critical 
mass in moving image archives across Europe and North America is EN 15907, a 
ratified standard of the CEN (European Committee for Standardisation).

EN 15907 defines a metadata set for the description of audiovisual works 
including the various incarnations it can assume during its lifecycle. Its core 
entities are work, variant, manifestation, item, agent and event - as you can 
see it aligns with the FRBR conceptual model albeit with some differences (no 
Expression) which shift it towards representing the lifecycle of a moving image 
work rather than a bibliographic work.

It's more of a conceptual model than the more minimal metadata models PB Core 
and EBU Core, it offers a model for representing the lifecycle of the moving 
image work and entities and relationships for describing the outcomes in a 
collection, contextualising those within the work's lifecycle.

You can find out more at filmstandards.org<http://filmstandards.org>:
http://filmstandards.org/fsc/index.php/Main_Page

http://filmstandards.org/fsc/index.php/How_EN_15744_and_EN_15907_came_into_being

This is a summary from that site:

This European Standard specifies a set of metadata for the description of 
cinematographic works, as well as a terminology for use by parties wishing to 
exchange such descriptive metadata. It also defines some basic entities and 
relationships useful for defining data models as well as for structuring 
hierarchically ordered and serialised representations of metadata about 
cinematographic works including their variants, manifestations, and items.



This standard was built into the British Film Institute's new collections 
management system (CID) by Adlib in 2011, and it is being adopted by many 
national or regional audiovisual archives across Europe and North America: 
Deutsche Kinemathek and Deutsches Filminstitut in Germany, CNC / Cinematheque 
Francais in France, Swedish Film Institute, Cinematheque Quebecois, Academy of 
Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It will form the metadata backbone for all 
digital assets in the BFI's new digital preservation infrastructure / MAM.

It is also baked into the forthcoming revision of the FIAF (Federation of 
international Film Archives) Cataloguing guidelines (BFI, CNC, SFI are 
contributors to the FIAF Cataloguing and Documentation Commission).

If you want to learn more about it Alan  I'd be happy to talk you through the 
BFI's approach to it, and show you some data of course. Email me directly and 
we can arrange a show and tell if that would be useful.

All the best,
Stephen,
Head of Data, BFI

On 2 Oct 2015, at 18:26, Newman, Alan 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:


The National Gallery is interesting in seeing audio/video metadata models used 
by colleagues in cataloguing sound and moving image media in your DAMs and 
repositories.  Please share your av data dictionaries either here or direct to 
me.

We will reciprocate when ours is developed later this year.

many thanks
Alan Newman
National Gallery of Art
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
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