LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Entertainment Technology Center at University of Southern California (ETC@USC), a non-profit consortium that brings together top entertainment and consumer electronics companies to listen to and evaluate consumer mindshare towards future technologies, is pleased to announce the availability of its new whitepaper, “ETC Marketing Metadata 1.0.” This document provides a set of best practices for creating descriptive/marketing metadata, based on the combined wisdom of the metadata experts who produce and distribute digital media for the leading Hollywood studios. The ETC@USC is also announcing a new metadata online discussion group open to industry members who are looking to further the discussion around the distribution of metadata. Metadata is information that, in this case, describes what is contained in digital content files. Virtually every content creator or related service company creates metadata, and each distributor/network has its own specification for the metadata it receives with the content. There are a wide variety of implementations, and managing a consistent quality of data through distribution can be a challenge.
“With the explosion and increasing importance of online content, the need for sharing best practices for metadata has become essential. Your metadata is often all you have to get your content in front of the online consumer. The ETC@USC metadata discussion group will bring together those with the interest to further develop best practices for this data,” said KC Blake, director of business development at ETC@USC. “ETC@USC’s metadata project has the support of many of the Hollywood studios and the companies that support them. We are therefore confident that the metadata discussion group will enable industry members to share information, to work together, and to ultimately save everyone in the value chain time and money. Best of all, consumers will be able to find the content they want easier.”
Those interested in signing up for the ETC@USC metadata online discussion group can do so by visiting https://etcenter.org/metadata
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