- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 09:24:10 +1000
- To: Eric Carlson <eric.carlson@apple.com>
- Cc: Pierre-Antoine Champin <pierre-antoine.champin@liris.cnrs.fr>, "Chris.Poppe@ugent.be" <Chris.Poppe@ugent.be>, "public-media-annotation@w3.org" <public-media-annotation@w3.org>
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 1:26 AM, Eric Carlson <eric.carlson@apple.com> wrote: > > On Apr 19, 2010, at 4:06 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Eric Carlson <eric.carlson@apple.com> wrote: >>> Silvia - >>> >>> On Apr 19, 2010, at 7:47 AM, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: >>> >>>>> >>>>> As for the language attribute, it will not always be the case that a >>>>> metadata source will use a single language for all its properties. For >>>>> example, an RDF file may contain : >>>>> >>>>> <video.ogg> dc:title >>>>> "Planet of the apes"@en, >>>>> "La plančte des singes"@fr . >>>>> >>>>> So you can't really escape the per-value language attribute, can you? >>>> >>>> Generally, you will not get a mixed language metadata file. I don't >>>> know where you take your example from. I am following general practice >>>> in libraries and other institutes that create metadata and they will >>>> keep metadata descriptions for the same media resource separate as >>>> much as possible. You can, of course, make up a metadata format that >>>> can have multiple mixed language annotations, but I am finding those >>>> rather unusable and am not sure we should be supporting it in the API. >>>> >>> This is *definitely* not an artificial use case. As I have noted before, both QuickTime and MPEG-4 files support multiple metadata values with the same key.This feature is definitely used to include multiple localizations of metadata in movie files. >>> >> >> Would they be in the same track or in different tracks? >> > Both are possible. QuickTime and MPEG-4 meta data metadata can also be associated with the movie itself, which signals that it applies to everything in the movie. > > Multiple metadata values with the same key are allowed no matter which part of a movie metadata is associated with. > > eric > Ok, reality beats me. I still don't think it's good design, but it seems there are enough annotations out there that mix multiple metadata values of different languages in the same key. Cheers, Silvia.
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