Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

["B.K. DeLong" <bkdelong AT pobox.com>]

At 02:21 PM 8/24/2006, Mike Linksvayer wrote:
> I'm thinking that because embedded video metadata practically does not
> exist (note "practically") that rather than attempting to come up with
> specs for CC embedding in every video format we help come up with specs
> for XMP embedding in every format.

Funny you mention that - I was looking into doing just that while I 
was at MIT with the incredible library of metadata we collected for 
the OpenCourseWare project. It should be possible to embed XMP into 
JPGs, TIFFs, GIFs, PNGs, and PDFs. It would be nice to be able to do 
the same, because of the XML/RDF format, in audio files but an XSLT 
should be able to convert ID3v2 data into what is needed after 
extracting it from the file.

We were just getting into video when I left so I didn't delve much 
into XMP in RM and QT but I'm sure since they both have the space for 
captioning that metadata shouldn't be TOO challenging.


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