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At 08:35 AM 3/15/2005, Damien Moody wrote: >It seems to me that what we really need is competent programmers and IT >professionals to perform a thorough analysis of the needs of the a/v >community to create truly usable and customizable software. IT isn't nasty >stuff - but the output of IT efforts, as with anything else, can be. In IT >there is a very under-utilitized, mis-utilitzed and misunderstood concept >called "systems analysis and design". That is, a bit simplistically >perhaps, but truly enough, all that we need. > That is truly what we need on a global basis. I wish I could figure out a way to make it happen. We have the beginnings of this stuff like MARC, Dublin Core, AAF, MXF, BWF, MPEG-7. It's all out there--too much is out there, actually! The bad news is there are probably archives putting metadata in all these formats. Cheers, Richard Richard L. Hess email: [log in to unmask] Vignettes Media web: http://www.richardhess.com/tape/ Aurora, Ontario, Canada (905) 713 6733 1-877-TAPE-FIX