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OVERVIEW

Certain elements are commonly used in media-related metadata definitions. This section defines these common elements in the form of the "md" namespace.

Full documentation is a combination of the written document and the XML Schema itself.

CURRENT VERSION

• Version 2.3 Specification
  • Common Metadata, TR-META-CM, v2.3, February 9, 2015 (PDF)
  • Version showing changes from v2.2 to 2.3 (PDF)
• Version 2.3 Schema
  • Schema Location: http://www.movielabs.com/schema/md/v2.3/md-v2.3.xsd
  • Schema Documentation
• Detailed Revision History, TR-META-REV, v2.3, February 9, 2015 (PDF)

PREVIOUSLY RELEASED VERSIONS

Version 2.2 (Released)

• Version 2.2 Specification
  • Common Metadata, TR-META-CM, v2.2, October 2, 2014 (PDF)
  • Version showing changes from v2.1c to 2.2 (PDF)
• Version 2.2 Schema
  • Schema Location: http://www.movielabs.com/schema/md/v2.2/md-v2.2.xsd
  • Schema Documentation
• Detailed Revision History, TR-META-REV, v2.2, October 2, 2014 (PDF)

Version 2.1 (Released)

• Version 2.1 Specification
  • Common Metadata, TR-META-CM, v2.1c, January 4, 2014 (PDF)
  • Version showing changes from v2.1 to 2.1c (PDF)
  • Versions showing changes from v2.0 to v2.1 (PDF)
• Version 2.1 Schema
  • Schema Location: http://www.movielabs.com/schema/md/v2.1/md-v2.1.xsd
  • Schema Documentation
• Detailed Revision History, TR-META-REV, v2.1c, January 4, 2014 (PDF)

Version 2.0 (Released)

• Version 2.0 Specification
  • Common Metadata, TR-META-CM, v2.0, January 3, 2013 (PDF)
  • Versions showing changes from v1.2f (PDF)
• Version 2.0 Schema
  • Schema Location: http://www.movielabs.com/schema/md/v2.0/md-v2.0.xsd
  • Schema Documentation
• Detailed Revision History, TR-META-REV, v2.0, January 3, 2013 (PDF)

Version 1.2 (Released)

• Version 1.2f Specification
  • Common Metadata, TR-META-CM, v1.2f, October 25, 2012 (PDF)
  • Versions showing changes from v1.2e (PDF) [The only change is moving ratings to a separate document Common Metadata Content Ratings, TR-META-CR found at http://www.movielabs.com/ratings]
• Version 1.2 Schema
  • Schema Location: http://www.movielabs.com/schema/md/v1.2/md.xsd
  • Alternate Schema Location: http://www.movielabs.com/schema/md/v1.2/md-v1.2.xsd
  • Schema Documentation
• Prior document versions of 1.2 - no schema changes
  • Version 1.2e Specification
    • Common Metadata, TR-META-CM, v1.2e, October 25, 2012 (PDF)
    • Versions showing changes from v1.2a (PDF), from 1.2d (PDF)
    Version 1.2d Specification (replaced by 1.2e)
    • Common Metadata, TR-META-CM, v1.2d, September 24, 2012 (PDF)
    • Version showing changes from v1.2a (PDF)
  • Version1.2a Specification (replaced by 1.2d)
  • Common Metadata, TR-META-CM, v1.2a, May 29, 2012 (PDF)
  • Version showing changes from v1.2 (PDF)
  • Version 1.2 Specification (replaced by 1.2a)
    • Common Metadata, TR-META-CM, v1.2, November 1, 2011 (PDF)
    • Version showing changes from v1.1 (PDF)

Version 1.1 (Released)

• Specification
  • Common Metadata, TR-META-CM, v1.1, January 6, 2011 (PDF)
  • Version showing changes from v1.0 (PDF)
• Version 1.1 Schema
  • Schema Location: http://www.movielabs.com/schema/md/v1.1/md.xsd
  • Schema Documentation

Version 1.07 (Released)

• Specification
  • Common Metadata, TR-META-CM, v1.07, October 29, 2010 (PDF)
  • Version showing changes from v1.0 (PDF)
• Version 1.0.7 Schema
  • Schema Location: http://www.movielabs.com/schema/md/v1.07/md.xsd
  • Schema Documentation

Version 1.0 (Released)

• Common Metadata, TR-META-CM, v1.0, January 5, 2010 (PDF)
• Version 1.0 Schema
  • Schema Location: http://www.movielabs.com/md/md/v1.0/md.xsd
  • Schema Documentation

CANDIDATE FOR RELEASE

• Common Metadata, TR-META-CM, v2.3 DRAFT, January 23, 2015 (PDF, Word)
  • Showing changes from v2.2 (PDF, Word)
• Version 2.3 DRAFT Schema
  • DRAFT Schema Location
  • DRAFT Schema Documentation

SUPPORTING MATERIALS

Controlled Vocabularies

• Common Genre: http://www.movielabs.com/md/md/common_genre.html

Guidelines

• Content Structure Guidelines, TR-META-CSG, v0.9, January 6, 2010 (PDF)
  • Examples from Content Structure Guidelines

Examples

• The following directory contains usage examples and other resources: http://www.movielabs.com/md/resources
• Submissions are welcome!

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