Project
What is the MetaRex.media project? Where did it come from? What will it deliver?
Status: view timeline . IBC Accelerator 2023 Responsive Narrative Factory .
It’s super easy to send anything by FedEx - even a baby dinosaur. You put your stuff in a box and they slap 2 labels on it.
Magic happens and the box travels over train networks, air networks, couriers, bicycles and just gets to where you want it.
So why is it so hard to send media metadata?
That’s the problem that MetaRex solves
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the metadata - this can lead to no code integrations. That should be nice!
A project to create a body of free to use Open Source software that allows media metadata to be created, transmitted and stored over common links and file systems.
Because today, every Virtual Set and engineering heavy production is a custom build. Every QC report is unlinked to the master content and version workflows lose metadata when content is processed by third parties.
What is it good for? Carrying binary, text, isochronous and event driven metadata. Identifying the metadata via a registry and providing links to applications and schemas that can shed light on how to process that metadata. By harmonising the identification and transport of the metadata, an infrastructure can be built to keep the stuff that we currently lose.
What is it not good for? We will not harmonize schemas for tripod data, lens data, QC data or any other sort of metadata carried. That’s outside the scope. MetaRex will carry any metadata through the value chain to where it’s needed. MetaRex will identify that metadata and allow applications to enlighten the metadata or rmove it based on business rules.
What is it not yet good for?: At the end of 2022 MetaRex is just a paper specification, some pictures and a prototype register. At the end of 2023 we should have code for different computer languages and a framework for common tools and apps. By the end of 2024 we should have end to end workflows with common tools and a body of free software that reduces the barrier to transporting and preserving media chain metadata.
Throughout 2022, at NAB , IBC and the DPP Leader’s Briefing, the MetaRex team did a lot of talking to content creators, facility owners, software vendors and many others about what were the blockers that stopped metadata being a first class citizen. The biggest issue was “The metadata gets lost”.
file workflows with metadata preservation at the BBC in a project called G-FORS (see page 219 of linked PDF). The demo was brought up to date with live netowrking and VFX and shown at the ARRI Broadcast Day in 2019, but in 2022 there still wasn’t a similar solution available on the market. Games companies complained that every new virtual set was a custom engineering job, just to get the metadata to the right place at the right time.
financial reserve from which we can give out grants to engineering teams to create the Open Source that we need to enable free tooling for all. Please make a small financial or engineering contribution if a working global media metadata ecosystem is of interest to you or your company.
The project will end in Q1 2025 with the project board deciding on the details of the project closure.
What is the MetaRex.media project? Where did it come from? What will it deliver?
How does metarex.media work under the hood?
How does metarex.media work under the hood?
Why is MetaRex needed?
Current Status.
Reference Documents.
Tutorials coming soon.
The Dawn Chorus Phase 2 Specification
The Dawn Chorus Proof of Concept Specification
The Dawn Chorus Collaborative Project
What software can you expect from Metarex.
How the Project is Funded.
Documents for running the project.
How Metarex flows metadata
Share some metadata with us.
A derivation of the MXF-Live specification to start the Metarex project. This version will be updated and edited as the project proceeds.
How we collect and use some Personal Data from Website Users.
Colors, Fonts and images to help promote metarex.media.
The original MXF-Live specification as used in the mxf-live project.
Set up an online meeting to chat.
Timeline to deliver the Responsive Narrative Factory.