In the recent issue of IEEE Multimedia Magazine, Dick Bulterman wrote a very interesting piece ¡°Is it Time for a Moratorium on Metadata?¡±. Dick is a very well known researcher in multimedia authoring environment and was a leader in the…
Moratorium on metadata?
meta data for multimedia
Meta data should be considered broadly in two different classes. There is meta data about a document, an image, a sound file, a video file, or any other sensor file. This meta data is about the whole file. Thus who…
Metadata, text, and multimedia
Based on research literature, trade literature, and even popular press it is very easy to get the impression that semantics will be no issue because we are now going to attach metadata to all forms of data. It appears that…
Next few months
My health has been slowly improving towards normal. It does take long time to get back and though I know this, it is still a frustrating process. I still get tired very fast. Now my arthritic knee also bothers me…
Phone and TV
Texas Instrument announced that it has developed a chip that will allow TV on mobile phones. See the article in USA Today at http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/services/2004-10-21-talk-and-watch_x.htm discussing this. It was expected to happen but now that a reputed company has announced that…