CSA ISO/IEC 15938-5:04 (R2019)
Information Technology - Multimedia Content Description Interface - Part 5: Multimedia Description Schemes (Adopted ISO/IEC 15938-5:2003, first edition, 2003-05-15)
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1.1 Organization of the document
This International Standard specifies a metadata system for describing multimedia content.
This document specifies the Multimedia Description Schemes (MDS) description tools (Description Schemes, Descriptors, and datatypes) that comprise ISO/IEC 15938-5.
The following set of subclauses are provided for each MDS description tool, where optional subclauses are indicated as (optional):
- Syntax: specifies the normative syntax of the description tool using Description Definition Language (DDL) (see ISO/IEC 15938-2).
- Binary syntax (optional): specifies the normative binary representation for the description tool, where relevant. If a binary syntax is not specified, then the binary coding method of ISO/IEC 15938-1 shall apply for the description tool.
- Semantic: specifies the normative semantics of the description tool and each of its components (attributes and elements).
- Informative examples (optional): provides informative examples that illustrate the use or instantiation of the description tool in creating descriptions.
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