File Formats and Systems (31FS)

Karen Broome is manager, technology standards, at Sony Electronics. Based in Hollywood, she is co-chair of the SMPTE 31FS Files and Structures Technical Committee, chair of the SMPTE 30MR10 Metadata Definition Working Group, and chair of the SMPTE 3D Home Master Metadata Ad Hoc Group. She works in Sony's U.S. Technology Standards Office on multimedia content file format and metadata standardization activities, focusing on the Material Exchange Format (MXF) and various data formats for consumer and professional cameras. She is also an invited expert to the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Metadata and Containers Committee. In addition to her work in the motion picture industry, Broome serves on the U.S. Technical Advisory Group to the IEC TC100 as a subject matter expert on e-books and the EPUB file format. Broome works on the ongoing maintenance of various language identification codesets, participating in two revisions of the RFC defining xml:lang (IETF BCP47). Before joining Sony, Broome managed a digital content strategy business in San Francisco, serving as a management and technical consultant on ground-breaking workflow, taxonomy, and multilingual content delivery systems for CNET, Macromedia, Charles Schwab, and O'Reilly and Associates, an early proponent of open-source technology and web standards.