Metadata is data about data.  In the field of digital cinema, it includes all data in related computer files other than that directly encoding the video and audio signals.  Some metadata is essential for playback (e.g., X & Y resolution, bits per sample, sampling rate, and coding method) while other metadata has other uses (e.g. [...]

The W3C Media Fragments Working Group has published the first public working draft of the Media Fragments URI 1.0 syntax and semantics. Dr. Michael Hausenblas from iMP member NUIG has contributed to the draft, which feeds into the overall iMP metadata architecture.