Shot Descriptions - standard or add-on for PBCore?
Anyone have a recommended standard for describing the shots themselves (within the programs)? I use PBCore to describe content, but need to describe it in better and exhaustive detail (i.e. wide shot, exterior, night.) Does PBCore allow for this, is there a controlled vocabulary in place (or available from another source that you can recommend) to describe footage in this way?
Thanks for the help.
Story-related images, WTF?
Let's say you have a radio news web page, with a title, text description, byline, date, and audio archive. All straightforward to encode in PBCore. But what if you have a related image, as is often the case? (Example: http://will.illinois.edu/news/story/fedrb-f/, or all over npr.org)
We could make a separate PBCore record for the image, then include <pbcoreRelation> element containers to connect the image with the radio news story with "Is Part Of" and "Has Part" values. That means we'd be spending lots of time cataloging images. That might be a good thing, but is it the only PBCore way of doing things?
episode number within a series
I've seen multiple methods of including an episode number in a PBCore record and am interested in which method to use. So far I've seen:
1. title = episodeNumber where titleType = "Episode"
2. identifier = episodeNumber where titleType = "Episode Number for {Series Title}"
3. extension = "asset_EpisodeNumber:"episodeNumber where extensionAuthorityUsed = "PBS PODS"
There may be other methods. Of the methods above, option 1 seems to have a higher vote, since both the Alliance for Community Media Server Standard's Working Group and Wisconsin Public Television both followed this method independently. But in option 1 if a program has a more formal episode title would there be any problem with two titles where titleType = "Episode". For example:
<pbcoreTitle><title>Curious George</title><titleType>Series</titleType></pbcoreTitle>
<pbcoreTitle><title>George Authors a Metadata Standard</title><titleType>Episode</titleType></pbcoreTitle>
<pbcoreTitle><title>987</title><titleType>Episode</titleType></pbcoreTitle>
“Common” PBCore Errors
Hello PBCore friends,
I've written a blog post on pbcore errors which may be of interest to the folks here. The focus is on errors which would impede interoperability. Feel free to post your comments, and/or tell me why these sorts of errors are not, in fact, problematic.
where to put extra details about contributors and creators
Thinking about what to do with additional (i.e., not standardized terms) info about creators and contributors.
More on where to put extra details about contributors and creators