The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced that its draft Video and Audio Metadata Recommended Practice is 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. The pandemic has only served to reinforce the relevance of this project - the use of virtual conference recordings and scholarly video has increased exponentially over the past two years. However, while metadata standards are 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 aim to improve the dissemination, discoverability, and indexability of video and audio content. The Recommended Practice helps 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.
The draft Recommended Practice, with commenting capability, is available on the Working Group's web page from June 21 to August 5, 2022.
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