Metadata for Audio
|
Paper T4-1
|
Managing Large Sound Databases Using MPEG
|
Max Jacob
IRCAM, Paris, France
|
| Sound databases are widely used for scientific, commercial,
and artistic purposes. Nevertheless there is
yet no standard way to manage them. This is due to
the complexity of describing and indexing audio content
and to the variety of purposes a sound database
might address. Recently there appeared MPEG-7, a
standard for audio/visual content metadata that could
be a good starting point. MPEG-7 not only defines a
set of description tools but is more generally an open
framework hosting specific extensions for specific
needs in a common environment. This is crucial since
there would be no way to freeze in a monolithic definition
all the possible needs of a sound database. This
paper outlines how the MPEG-7 framework can be
used, how it can be extended, and how all this can fit
into an extensible database design, gathering three
years of experience during the CUIDADO project at
IRCAM. |
|
|
|
|
