Re: Properties for media fragment?

At 20:36  +0100 5/05/09, Pierre-Antoine Champin wrote:
>I'm not sure that I agree with the idea of having a value for property X
>*at each instant*...
>
>Back to your copyright example: for me, the copyright is on a whole
>media entity, spanning from T to T', even if embeded in a bigger one. It
>does not feel right to state that at time T", the copyright is C, just
>like it would not feel right to state that the copyright of a book (or
>its author, or its title) is the copyright (author, title, resp.) for
>each and every word of the book.
>
>   pa

I think we are agreeing, in fact.  If I ask a 
question about a specific time, that falls into a 
range T to T' as you say, and the system can 
answer.  If I ask a question that spans a range 
of times (or implicitly, all possible times) then 
there may be a plurality of answers...

>
>David Singer a écrit :
>>  At 22:02  +0100 4/05/09, Pierre-Antoine Champin wrote:
>>>  Hi,
>>>
>>>  I agree with David that "my favourite scenes" is neither 'intrinsic' not
>>>  'published'. I also agree to call that 'user' metadata, and would point
>>>  out that our use case 5.6 [1] is exactly about that.
>>>
>>>  But the properties proposed by Felix are not, IMO, limited to user
>>>  generated metadata. Some videos are complex, and different fragments may
>>>  have different intrinsic or published metadata. A canonical example is a
>>>  news report, which is a composite media object comprising several parts.
>>>  Both the whole report and each part deserve theit own metadata
>>>  (intrinsic and published), but it should be possible to express the
>>>  relation between the whole and the parts.
>>
>>  right, time-variant metadata is a big question. Most annotation/metadata
>>  systems think of it as time-invariuant ('applies to the whole
>>  resource').  However, some things are better time-variant (e.g. the
>>  copyright owner of a movie assembled from pieces might vary by piece).
>>
>>  It's easy to design an interface "at  time T in this movie, what is the
>>  answer to X" and have the reply be "at any time, the answer is Y"
>>  (time-invariant label).  It's harder to answer "what is the answer to X"
>>  with "well, that depends on what time in the movie you ask about".
>>
>>  worth pondering...
>>
>>>
>>>    pa
>>>
>>>  [1]
>>> 
>>>http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-media-annot-reqs-20090119/#uc-user-generated-metadata
>>>
>>>
>>>  Felix Sasaki a écrit :
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>   2009/5/5 David Singer <singer@apple.com <mailto:singer@apple.com>>
>>>>
>>>>       At 7:14  +0200 2/05/09, Felix Sasaki wrote:
>>>>
>>>>           List of my favorite scences of a video, as part of the video
>>>>           metadata? Does that not make sense?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>       Oh wow, this is a new category of metadata.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>   Is it so new? At least the mechanisms listed in the media fragments
>>>>   draft seem to exist for some time. So my assumption was that the
>>>>   mechanisms are actually used, and that mapping betweeen them is useful.
>>>>   If they exist only as a new category, to be filled by the new fragment
>>>>   identifier syntax defined by the media fragments WG, than it does not
>>>>   make sense to invest time in their mapping.
>>>>
>>>>   Felix
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>        So far I have been seeing
>>>>
>>>>       * 'intrinsic' properties of the media itself (duration, whether it
>>>>       has video, audio etc.)
>>>>       * published annotations for the media (copyright, title, etc.)
>>>>
>>>>       both of these are 'source supplied'.
>>>>
>>>>       'My favorite scenes' is user-supplied.  Hm.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>       --
>>>>       David Singer
>>>>       Multimedia Standards, Apple Inc.
>>>>
>>>>
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-- 
David Singer
Multimedia Standards, Apple Inc.

Received on Wednesday, 6 May 2009 00:06:37 UTC