[Eril-l] NISO’s Recommended Practice for Video and Audio Metadata Now Available For Public Comment!

[NISO Announce]

**Apologies for cross posting**


Baltimore, MD, June 21, 2022 -- The National Information Standards
Organization (NISO) announced today that its draft Video and Audio Metadata
Recommended Practice
<https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/video-audio-metadata-guidelines>
is now available for public comment through August 5, 2022. This new
Recommended Practice establishes guidelines for metadata for video and
audio assets including administrative metadata, semantic metadata,
technical metadata, rights metadata, and accessibility metadata.

Video and audio materials are an increasingly important form of scholarly
output across all disciplines, and the pandemic has only served to
reinforce the relevance of this project—use of virtual conference
recordings and scholarly video has increased exponentially over the past
two years. However, while there are metadata standards in place for
text-based outputs like journals and books, there have been no clear,
mutually accepted recommendations for media assets. The NISO Video and
Audio Metadata Recommended Practice aims to improve the dissemination,
discoverability, and indexability of video and audio content, including
helping to ensure that media assets comply with web accessibility
standards, which require specific tagging that is rarely applied at present
due to a lack of clear metadata crosswalks and best practice
recommendations between text and non-text formats.

Video and Audio Metadata Working Group co-chair, Barbara Chen (formerly
Director of Bibliographic Information Services and Editor, MLA
International Bibliography Modern Language Association, now retired) said,
“We are pleased and proud to share this draft Recommended Practice, the
culmination of around three years’ work involving a working group of
stakeholders from libraries, publishers, and vendors. We developed
extensive use cases involving multiple stakeholders, assessed existing
standards and analyzed these to determine the properties required to serve
in communication, and then organized these properties into “global” and
domain-specific lists, to enable quick application by our audience.”

Co-chair Violaine Iglesias (CEO, Cadmore Media) added, “The working group
aspired to make exchange of content among producers and consumers more
efficient by identifying essential elements of information exchange and by
reducing transactional ambiguity. We’re looking forward to input from these
parties and any additional feedback to help us improve it further before
publication.”

Co-chair Bill Kasdorf (Principal, Kasdorf and Associates, LLC) noted, “The
draft NISO Recommended Practice is not expected to replace any metadata
standards already in use in different sectors. Rather, it’s intended to be
a “Rosetta Stone” to enable two parties, each of which uses a particular
metadata model which might be unlike the other, to communicate clearly with
each other.”

And co-chair Michelle Urberg (representing the Music Library Association)
summed up, “The draft Recommended Practice also includes a “Tips for
Application” section that we hope will aid practical application and use.
We are pleased to share this draft with the wider community and look
forward to receiving feedback from any potential adopter.”

NISO's Associate Executive Director, Nettie Lagace, added, “Many thanks to
Barbara, Violaine, Bill, Michelle, and the other Video and Audio Metadata
Working Group members for their valuable contributions to this draft
Recommended Practice, which will help support the discovery and use of
non-text formats. NISO welcomes community input on these guidelines, and
encourages all who create or consume scholarly video and audio materials to
provide us with their feedback.”

The draft Recommended Practice, with commenting capability, is available at the
Working Group’s web page
<https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/video-audio-metadata-guidelines>
from June 21 to August 5, 2022.

*About NISO*

Based in Baltimore, MD, NISO’s mission is to build knowledge, foster
discussion, and advance authoritative standards development through
collaboration among the cultural, scholarly, scientific, and professional
communities. To fulfill this mission, NISO engages with libraries,
publishers, information aggregators, and other organizations that support
learning, research, and scholarship through the creation, organization,
management, and curation of knowledge. NISO works with intersecting
communities of interest and across the entire lifecycle of information
standards. NISO is a not-for-profit association accredited by the American
National Standards Institute (ANSI). For more information, visit the NISO
website (https://niso.org) or contact us at nisohq at niso.org.


NISO

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Baltimore, MD 21211

Phone: 301.654.2512

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