Hello everyone,
I hope you all had a fruitful meeting during the TPAC!
Here is a short summary for Media Annotations WG (MAWG) 5th F2F meeting.
The charter of the group is to facilitate for web developers to access metadata
in multimedia objects. Our approach is to devise a metadata ontology that
defines relationships between metadata properties/attributes.
Please note that the mission of this WG is to collaborate with existing
formats, and that we do not introduce any new metadata attributes. It follows
that we don't not have any placeholders to store or accumulate metadata, but
only translate already existing values through our "mediating" metadata
vocabulary, comprised of the ontology and API.
The group met for two days in Santa Clara during the TPAC 2009 meeting. 12
group participants and 13 observers were registered. Three documents has been
published by the group as FPWD:
- Use Cases and Requirements for Ontology and API for Media Object
1.0, June 2009
- Ontology for Media Resource 1.0, June 2009
- API for Media Resource 1.0, October 2009
The Ontology and API for Media Resource Documents are intended to become
recommendations, and are scheduled to go for last call on March 2010.
More highlights from the F2F:
- API architecture discussions focused on Web Broswer vendors with Dough
Schepers of the W3C and Silvia Pfeiffer from Mozilla.
- The group now considers having just one function to return any metadata from
any type of media object (see:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-media-annotation/2009Nov/0012.html).
- Discussions with Rigo from PLING (Policy Language Interest Group) concerning
support for Policy documents.
- Coordination with John at Stanford about accessibility support in HTML5 and
the MAWG vocabulary.
Best Regards
Joakim Söderberg
co-Chair Media Annotations WG
