1、raising standards worldwideNO COPYING WITHOUT BSI PERMISSION EXCEPT AS PERMITTED BY COPYRIGHT LAWBSI Standards PublicationBS EN 15907:2010Film identification Enhancing interoperability ofmetadata Element sets andstructuresBS EN 15907:2010 BRITISH STANDARDNational forewordThis British Standard is the
2、 UK implementation of EN 15907:2010.The UK participation in its preparation was entrusted to TechnicalCommittee CPW/36, Cinematography.A list of organizations represented on this committee can beobtained on request to its secretary.This publication does not purport to include all the necessaryprovis
3、ions of a contract. Users are responsible for its correctapplication. BSI 2010ISBN 978 0 580 65404 6ICS 35.240.30; 37.060.99; 97.195Compliance with a British Standard cannot confer immunity fromlegal obligations.This British Standard was published under the authority of theStandards Policy and Strat
4、egy Committee on 31 October 2010.Amendments issued since publicationDate Text affectedBS EN 15907:2010EUROPEAN STANDARD NORME EUROPENNE EUROPISCHE NORM EN 15907 July 2010 ICS 35.240.30; 97.195 English Version Film identification - Enhancing interoperability of metadata - Element sets and structures
5、Identification des films - Moyens damliorer linteroprabilit des mtadonnes - Ensembles et structures des lments Identifikation von Filmen - Verbesserung der Interoperabilitt von Metadaten - Elementstze und Strukturen This European Standard was approved by CEN on 12 June 2010. CEN members are bound to
6、 comply with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this European Standard the status of a national standard without any alteration. Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references concerning such national standards may be obtained on application to the CEN Ma
7、nagement Centre or to any CEN member. This European Standard exists in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in any other language made by translation under the responsibility of a CEN member into its own language and notified to the CEN Management Centre has the same status a
8、s the official versions. CEN members are the national standards bodies of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Ro
9、mania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom. EUROPEAN COMMITTEE FOR STANDARDIZATION COMIT EUROPEN DE NORMALISATION EUROPISCHES KOMITEE FR NORMUNG Management Centre: Avenue Marnix 17, B-1000 Brussels 2010 CEN All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reserve
10、d worldwide for CEN national Members. Ref. No. EN 15907:2010: EBS EN 15907:2010EN 15907:2010 (E) 2 Contents Page Foreword 4Introduction .51 Scope 62 Normative references 63 Terms and definitions .64 Primary Entities74.1 Cinematographic Work .74.2 Variant .84.3 Manifestation 94.4 Item . 104.5 Content
11、 125 Contextual Entities . 125.1 Agent 125.2 Event 146 Elements 156.1 Identifier . 156.2 Record source . 156.3 Title . 166.4 Identifying Title . 176.5 Country of Reference . 186.6 Year of reference. 186.7 Format 196.8 Extent . 206.9 Language . 216.10 Production event. 216.11 Publication Event 226.12
12、 Award . 236.13 Decision event . 246.14 IPR registration . 256.15 Preservation event 266.16 Subject terms 276.17 Content description 287 Common Element types . 297.1 General . 297.2 Region 297.3 Timespan . 307.4 Language tag . 308 Relationships 308.1 General . 308.2 HasAgent . 308.3 HasEvent 318.4 H
13、asContent 318.5 HasAsSubject 328.6 HasOtherRelation 328.7 HasVariant . 338.8 HasManifestation 338.9 HasItem 33BS EN 15907:2010EN 15907:2010 (E) 3 9 Mappings to EN 15744 3310 Implementation notes . 34Annex A (informative) Expression of time spans 35Bibliography 36BS EN 15907:2010EN 15907:2010 (E) 4 F
14、oreword This document (EN 15907:2010) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 372 “Cinematographic works”, the secretariat of which is held by DIN. This European Standard shall be given the status of a national standard, either by publication of an identical text or by endorsement, at the la
15、test by January 2011, and conflicting national standards shall be withdrawn at the latest by January 2011. Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights. CEN and/or CENELEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all
16、 such patent rights. This document has been prepared under a mandate given to CEN by the European Commission and the European Free Trade Association. In recent years, there has been a proliferation of new metadata standards intended to provide greater control, consistency and accuracy of the data in
17、 the ever-expanding environment of the World Wide Web, through, for example, links to shared named authority files. This is one of the main issues CEN/TC 372 “Cinematographic Works” had to address. It is also the case that the data that exists in many cultural organisations across Europe has been co
18、mpiled over many years and in some cases predates the advent of computer databases. To help reconcile some of the data inconsistencies that will inevitably exist in such a volume of data from so many disparate sources, this standard, together with EN 15744, seeks to provide a bridge between the data
19、 that exists and the emerging technologies chosen to represent this data. While the principle of EN 15744 is to enable the clearest possible enunciation of data that is available to assist with the task of resource identification, the aim of EN 15907 is to provide a framework for improved interopera
20、bility of that data by providing a common definition for that data. According to the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations, the national standards organizations of the following countries are bound to implement this European Standard: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark,
21、Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. BS EN 15907:2010EN 15907:2010 (E) 5 Introduction Cinematographic w
22、orks are an essential component of European cultural heritage. Film history and culture is recognized as an integral part of everything from leisure to education, from art and fiction to documentary and is known to have a significant impact on culture and education worldwide. This has been emphasize
23、d by the European Parliament and Council Recommendation of 16 November 2005 on film heritage and the competitiveness of related industrial activities. Film archives, film museums, cinematheques, libraries and other cultural organisations have the responsibility to both preserve and make film heritag
24、e accessible. This responsibility includes acquisition of culturally important works; preservation through good storage and duplication to modern stable formats; curatorial research and interpretation; and programming and exhibition. Key to all of these activities is the responsibility of creating a
25、nd maintaining databases containing information about the films. Without such documentation preservation and access activities are not possible. At present, there is great variation in how filmographic databases are organized and implemented. Experts of all European countries have recognized that th
26、is variance stands in the way of interoperability and commonality of data. On 14 March 2005, the European Commission charged CEN with a mandate to create metadata standards for cinematographic works. In response to this mandate two standards, EN 15907:2010 and EN 15744:2009, have been developed to d
27、efine the metadata essential for facilitating data exchange between databases and consistent identification of films. The primary users of this European Standard will be film archives, film museums, cinematheques and any other cultural organisations with databases about audiovisual media. They will
28、also be the primary beneficiaries of the implementation of this European Standard throughout Europe as it will facilitate their access to filmographic metadata on works held by other organisations. Researchers, universities, students and the general public will also benefit in that it will be easier
29、 to integrate the information contained in the databases into larger information systems if it is organised according to these European Standards. The standards will also benefit film producers which, like the primary users, will be able to organize their metadata as defined by the standard. In cons
30、equence, these European Standards are expected to raise the visibility of Europes rich and diverse film heritage on the internet, and to improve access to it by citizens and professional users of cultural material in line with the objectives set out in the Commission Recommendation on the digitisati
31、on and online accessibility of cultural material and digital preservation of 24 August 2006. As requested by the European Commissions mandate, this standard provides a comprehensive set of metadata for the description of cinematographic works, as well as a comprehensive and consistent terminology, w
32、hereas EN 15744 defines and enables the selection of those data elements that are considered of prime importance for distinguishing and identifying individual cinematographic works. BS EN 15907:2010EN 15907:2010 (E) 6 1 Scope This European Standard specifies a set of metadata for the description of
33、cinematographic works, as well as a terminology for use by parties wishing to exchange such descriptive metadata. It also defines some basic entities and relationships useful for defining data models as well as for structuring hierarchically ordered and serialised representations of metadata about c
34、inematographic works including their variants, manifestations, and items. Specific vocabularies for values of elements and attributes are mandated only in selected cases, and only if these vocabularies are actively maintained by a standardisation body. 2 Normative references The following referenced
35、 documents are indispensable for the application of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies. ISO 639-1, Codes for the representation of names of languages Part 1: Alp
36、ha-2 code ISO 639-2, Codes for the representation of names of languages Part 2: Alpha-3 code ISO 15511, Information and documentation International standard identifier for libraries and related organizations (ISIL) ISO/IEC 14882:2003, Programming languages C+ 3 Terms and definitions For the purposes
37、 of this document, the following terms and definitions apply. 3.1 attribute named property, related to elements, entities or relationships, whose value domain may be restricted by a data type 3.2 cardinality number of times an instance of a relationship is permitted in a given context 3.3 data type
38、specification of the value domain for elements and attributes 3.4 entity conceptual unit defining a focus of description NOTE Entities may enter relationships with other entities. Entities may have attributes. 3.5 element semantic unit that is a major component of an entity NOTE An element may have
39、attributes and may be composed of other elements. BS EN 15907:2010EN 15907:2010 (E) 7 3.6 relationship association between the same or different entities NOTE Relationships may have attributes. 4 Primary Entities 4.1 Cinematographic Work 4.1.1 General This entity forms the node that relates all vari
40、ants and manifestations of a moving image work to a common creation. The concept of cinematographic work comprises both the intellectual or artistic content and the process of realisation in a cinematographic medium. Since this process determines the characteristics which are expected to persist in
41、any variant of a cinematographic work, this entity is defined here as the topmost level of description. Characteristics that should remain constant throughout all variants of a cinematographic work include circumstances of the creation process such as date(s) and place(s) of production, most contrib
42、utions by agents such as directors, screenwriters, production staff and cast members, as well as any statements about the contents. Statements about the extent of a cinematographic work are not defined at this level of description. If a statement about an “original format“ is required, then this may
43、 be expressed through an associated instance of manifestation labelled with a suitable type name such as “original“. A cinematographic realisation of a pre-existing non-film work is considered as a cinematographic work. This includes pure performance works such as concerts, original theatre performa
44、nces, sports events, etc. Moving images created by use of automatic devices such as surveillance cameras, scientific or medical instruments, etc. can be considered as cinematographic works if they are part of an archive collection or if they have been edited, published or distributed by a known Agen
45、t. Instances of the Cinematographic Work entity may have one-to-many relationships with instances of Variant and Manifestation and many-to-many relationships with instances of Agent, Event and Content. 4.1.2 Attributes descriptionLevel A one-character symbol indicating the role of the cinematographi
46、c work within part-whole relationships. a - Analytic (component part), content that is contained in another content. A component part may itself be either monographic or serial. m - Monographic. Complete content in one part or intended to be completed in a finite number of parts. s - Serial. Content
47、 issued in successive parts and intended to be continued indefinitely. c - Collection. Content issued in several independent parts. Status: mandatory 4.1.3 Elements Identifier (one or more). Defined in 6.1. Record source (one or more). Defined in 6.2. BS EN 15907:2010EN 15907:2010 (E) 8 Title (zero
48、or more). Defined in 6.3. Identifying title (one or more). Defined in 6.4. Country of reference (one or more). Defined in 6.5. Year of reference (one or more). Defined in 6.6. Language (zero or more). Defined in 6.9. Subject terms (zero or more). Defined in 6.16. Content description (zero or more).
49、Defined in 6.17. 4.1.4 Allowed relationships HasAgent (zero or more). Defined in 8.2. HasEvent (zero or more). Defined in 8.3. Targets: Production Event - defined in 6.10, Award - defined in 6.12, IPR registration - Defined in 6.14. HasContent (zero or more). Defined in 8.4. HasAsSubject (zero or more). Defined in 8.5. HasOtherRelation (zero or more). Defined in 8.
