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October 2008 meeting of SC-03-07

Audio Engineering Society

Standards Committee

Notice and agenda for the meeting of
SC-03-07
Working Group on Audio Metadata
of the SC-03 Subcommittee on the Preservation and Restoration of Audio Recording

To be held in conjunction with the upcoming AES 125th Convention in San Francisco, CA., US., 2008-10. The meeting is scheduled to take place at the Moscone Convention Center. Please check the latest schedule at http://www.aes.org/standards/

  1. Introduction to working group and attendees
  2. Amendments to and approval of agenda
  3. Approval of report of previous meeting

Held in Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2008-05.

  1. Open Projects

One or more of these projects may be in the process of a formal Call for Comment (CFC), as indicated by the project status. In these cases only, due process requires that any comments be published.

AES-X071: Liaison with SMPTE Registration Authority

Project scope: to formalize a working relationship with the SMPTE Registration Authority
Assigned to: SC-03-07 , Status: An "AES" Class 13 metadata entry has been registered
Intent: Liaison , Initiated: 1997 , Target: Continuing
Current goal: Status report , Goal date: Continuing

AES-X098A: Descriptive metadata for audio objects - Core audio schema

Project scope: To collect information on all metadata issues pertaining to digital audio objects and all aspects of the digital documentation of digital audio objects. This scope includes field structures to describe and provide access to the audio content contained in digital files. It includes transfer, preservation and restoration information.
Assigned to: SC-03-07 , Status: Held for review with new EBU contribution and core metadata work. See AES-X134
Intent: Information Document , Initiated: 1999-12 , Target: 2008
Current goal: PWD , Goal date: 2008-10

AES-X114: Metadata review

Project scope: to study and report on the methods and techniques for attaching and implementing metadata through all aspects of interfacing real-time and file-transfer audio, including, where related to audio, other metadata related to other media. The scope includes metadata for professional recording, sound reinforcement, production, broadcasting, and transmission as well as the exchange of metadata and associated audio among different organizations. It also includes the development of techniques, such as UML, to aid the description of the relationships and flow of metadata requirements in an open and recognised way.
Assigned to: SC-03-07 , Status: Project retained for ongoing review
Intent: Review , Initiated: 2001-01 , Target: 2008
Current goal: Status report , Goal date: continuing

AES-X134: Core metadata for audio exchange

Project scope: "To study and produce a standardised set of XML tags, along with their definitions, that describes the core set of metadata to accompany professional audio when being transferred by file or streamed formats."
Assigned to: SC-03-07 , Status: Proposed to compare AES-X098A draft with EBU P/MAG T3293 document
Intent: Report , Initiated: 2002-09-23 , Target: 2008
Current goal: PTD , Goal date: 2008-10

  1. Liaisons
  2. New Projects
  3. New Business
  4. Date of next meeting

NOTES:
  • Please make sure you sign the attendance sheet that will be circulated. This sheet shall be passed to the secretariat after the meeting.
  • Please make sure that any documents contributed to the meeting are passed to the secretariat who will ensure they are posted to the appropriate Working Group document site.
page updated 2008-09-24

Maintenance Annex

The following projects are subject to periodic review, however no issues have been identified for discussion so far. If you wish to propose a matter for discussion regarding any of these projects, please send an e-mail message to the working group before the meeting, or inform the chair at the beginning of the meeting.

AES-R9: AES standards project report - Considerations for standardising AES metadata sets

Status: No action requested or required
Intent: Review , Initiated: 2007 , Target: 2008
Current goal: Status report , Goal date: continuing
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