UMID Applications in Practices

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Journal Article
Content Type: Original Research
Abbreviated Title: SMPTE Mot. Imag J.
Volume: 121, No. 2, pp. 58–67
Abstract: The unique material identifier (UMID) is a SMPTE standard identifier that globally uniquely identifies audiovisual (AV) material. Because it is a core component of the Material Exchange Format and Advanced Authoring Format, it has been also handled by products claiming support for these formats. However, its intended use as a globally unique identifier to link AV material to its metadata has seldom been seen in practice. This paper aims to achieve its original intention by introducing the concept of a UMID-managed domain, where all AV materials are fully managed via their UMIDs, resulting in any AV material being unambiguously retrieved by its UMID. Another important aspect of the UMID-managed domain is that the domains from various products can be merged to produce a wider domain covering the entire system. To achieve this, however, the UMID resolution protocol language spoken by those products needs to be standardized. A couple of basic proposals are presented for further discussions.
Publication Date: 2012-03-01
DOI: 10.5594/j18149
ISSN: Print: 1545-0279
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/j18149
Author(s): Yoshiaki Shibata
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Yoshiaki Shibata has started his career as a semiconductor researcher at Sony Corp. in 1991. He then moved into the IT/Multimedia field in 1996, studying video over internet and video compression technology. — In 1998, Shibata joined the MPEG-7 standardization activity; he took a leadership in the MPEG-7 schema design as a working group chair and a project editor for ISO/IEC 15938-5. — Since 2001, he has been working in the media and entertainment industry, where initially he made a significant contribution to update the UMID specification (SMPTE ST330/RP205) as well as invent the EssenceMark for professional AV products. In 2003, he took part in the XDCAM development project, where he played a crucial role in the metadata part of the product development and applied for more than 40 patents in metadata related technology. — In 2011, Shibata left Sony Corp., making a trail to provide Japan's first independent consulting service for the media and metadata technology in the media and entertainment industry. Then, following a one-year preparation period, he founded metaFrontier.jp, LLC in Jan. 2012.
Jim Wilkinson
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Jim Wilkinson first worked in the area of broadcasting, joining the Independent Broadcasting Authority's (IBA) Engineering Headquarters in1974. During his time with the IBA, he worked on DICE, video compression using differential pulse-code modulation (DPCM) at 34 Mbits/sec and other video projects. — In 1979, Wilkinson joined the newly created Advanced Development Laboratories of Sony Broadcast as one of the founding members. His many activities and projects during his 28 years with Sony included digital video recording, image compression and processing, digital audio, metadata and file/stream formats. — Wilkinson has been awarded more than 80 patents; both U.K. and international. He has participated in many standards activities in the Audio Engineering Society, SMPTE, and the European Broadcasting Union, with particular emphasis on metadata, compression and file/stream formats. — In 1995, he was awarded the Alexander M. Poniatoff Gold Medal for Technical Excellence by SMPTE. He is a Chartered Engineer and a fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and SMPTE. — In 2006, Wilkinson retired from Sony and now works as an engineering consultant in the areas of video and sound with an ongoing interest in compression and file/stream formats.
Copyright: © 2012 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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1. SMPTE ST330-2011 “Television—Unique Material Identifier (UMID),” www.smpte.org EXTERNAL
2. SMPTE RP205-2009 “Application of Unique Material Identifiers in Production and Broadcast Environments,” www.smpte.org EXTERNAL
3. De Geyter Matthias Oorts Nico Overmeire Luk “Integration Demands on MAM Systems: A Proof of Concept Solution,” SMPTE Mot. Imag. J. 117 8 38 46 Nov./Dec. 2008 EXTERNAL
4. Shibata Yoshiaki Wilkinson Jim “White Paper on UMID and Its Applications,” the technology brochure distributed at the Sony booth at in NAB2002 (April 2002), http://metafrontier.jp/drupal/sites/default/files/papers/umid4Nab2002TechBrochure.pdf EXTERNAL
5. SMPTE ST298-2009 “Universal Labels for Unique Identification of Digital Data,” www.smpte.org EXTERNAL
6. SMPTE ST377-1-2011 “Material Exchange Format (MXF)—File Format Specification,” www.smpte.org EXTERNAL
7. SMPTE ST336-2007 “Data Encoding Protocol Using Key-Length-Value,” www.smpte.org EXTERNAL
8. SMPTE RP224v11-2011 “SMPTE Labels Register,” www.smpte.org EXTERNAL
9. European Broadcasting Union–Advanced Media Workflow Association Framework for Interoperable Media Service Task Force, http://wiki.amwa.tv/ebu/index.php/Main_Page EXTERNAL

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