- From: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:14:12 +0200
- To: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Cc: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>, Eric Carlson <eric.carlson@apple.com>, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On 13 April 2011 03:45, Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Danny, > > last year, after lengthy discussions about metadata at the Open > Subtitles Summit I wrote a blog piece called "My metadata is not your > metadata", see http://blog.gingertech.net/2010/10/01/your-metadata-is-not-my-metadata/. Thanks - some good points there. > I think there are at least 3 different types of metadata and thus far > we are exposing some technical metadata and preparing means for timed > semantic metadata. What we really haven't got - and where Henri says: > show me the use case - is an interface for semantic, non-timed > metadata. Yup. > We could just have such semantic non-timed metadata in video as part > of a WebVTT file in the header and expose it to JavaScript through > text tracks. That makes us independent of media formats, but requires > servers to extract metadata from within media resources into text > files. Not sure that's a good and acceptable solution. Hmm...I'll have to think about this some, but generally "do the work server-side" seems a bit of a cop out when we have these sophisticated tools (browsers) client-side. Cheers, Danny. -- http://danny.ayers.name
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