Media RSS

With the coming of Yahoo Video Search, they also decided that a video needs metadata as well. Well that sounds like a good idea. They decided that RSS needs a few new subfields of the [cite]item-field[/cite]. So they created the fields , , , , . And each field has multiple attributes. I have no idea whether these are the good fields to have for a video. I have a feeling that it is a bit limited. I am not aware of any other attempts.

But why the combination with RSS? Video-content should be able to stand on its own legs. Create a standard XML-based mark-up for describing a Video in all its details. Eventually this should also contain time- and image-based mark-up. And then create something to embed such a XML-file into RSS. But that is only needed if you want to have a feed with multiple video’s in a single RSS-file. Otherwise just access the original XML-file.

But as Marc Canter says it is already applaudable that they think of metadata in the first place. OK.

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