1、December 2010 Translation by DIN-Sprachendienst.English price group 16No part of this translation may be reproduced without prior permission ofDIN Deutsches Institut fr Normung e. V., Berlin. Beuth Verlag GmbH, 10772 Berlin, Germany,has the exclusive right of sale for German Standards (DIN-Normen).I
2、CS 35.240.30; 97.195!$l“1735958www.din.deDDIN EN 15907Film identification Enhancing interoperability of metadata Element sets and structuresEnglish translation of DIN EN 15907:2010-12Identifikation von Filmen Verbesserung der Interoperabilitt von Metadaten Elementstze und StrukturenEnglische bersetz
3、ung von DIN EN 15907:2010-12Identification des films Moyens damliorer linteroprabilit des mtadonnes Ensembles et structures des lmentsTraduction anglaise de DIN EN 15907:2010-12www.beuth.deDocument comprises pagesIn case of doubt, the German-language original shall be considered authoritative.3811.1
4、0 DIN EN 15907:2010-12 A comma is used as the decimal marker. National foreword This standard has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 372 “Cinematographic orks” (Secretariat: DIN, Germany). wThe responsible German body involved in its preparation was the Normenausschuss Informationstechnik u
5、nd Anwendungen (Information Technology and selected IT Applications Standards Committee), Working Committee NA 043-BR-03 SO Filmidentifikation. DIN EN 15907:2010-12 specifies a set of metadata for the description of cinematographic works, as well as terminology for use by parties wishing to exchange
6、 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 cinematographic works including their variants, manifestations, and items. Specific voc
7、abularies for values of elements and attributes are mandated only in selected cases, and only if these vocabularies are actively maintained by a standardisation body. The DIN Standards corresponding to the International Standards referred to in this document are as follows: ISO 639-1 DIN 2335 ISO 86
8、01 DIN ISO 8601 National Annex NA (informative) Bibliography DIN 2335, Language symbols DIN ISO 8601, Data elements and interchange formats Information interchange Representation of dates and times 2 EUROPEAN STANDARD NORME EUROPENNE EUROPISCHE NORM EN 15907 July 2010 ICS 35.240.30; 97.195 English V
9、ersion Film identification - Enhancing interoperability of metadata - Element sets and structures Identification des films - Moyens damliorer linteroprabilit des mtadonnes - Ensembles et structures des lments Identifikation von Filmen - Verbesserung der Interoperabilitt von Metadaten - Elementstze u
10、nd Strukturen This European Standard was approved by CEN on 12 June 2010. CEN members are bound to 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 bibliogr
11、aphical references concerning such national standards may be obtained on application to the CEN Management 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
12、a CEN member into its own language and notified to the CEN Management Centre has the same status as 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, Icelan
13、d, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom. EUROPEAN COMMITTEE FOR STANDARDIZATION COMIT EUROPEN DE NORMALISATION EUROPISCHES KOMITEE FR NORMUNG Management Centre: Avenue M
14、arnix 17, B-1000 Brussels 2010 CEN All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reserved worldwide for CEN national Members. Ref. No. EN 15907:2010: EEN 15907:2010 (E) 2 Contents Page Foreword 4Introduction .51 Scope 62 Normative references 63 Terms and definitions .64 Primary Entities74.
15、1 Cinematographic Work .74.2 Variant .84.3 Manifestation 94.4 Item . 104.5 Content 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
16、Extent . 206.9 Language . 216.10 Production event. 216.11 Publication Event 226.12 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 Langua
17、ge tag . 308 Relationships 308.1 General . 308.2 HasAgent . 308.3 HasEvent 318.4 HasContent 318.5 HasAsSubject 328.6 HasOtherRelation 328.7 HasVariant . 338.8 HasManifestation 338.9 HasItem 33DIN EN 15907:2010-12 EN 15907:2010 (E) 3 9 Mappings to EN 15744 3310 Implementation notes . 34Annex A (infor
18、mative) Expression of time spans 35Bibliography 36DIN EN 15907:2010-12 EN 15907:2010 (E) 4 Foreword 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
19、a national standard, either by publication of an identical text or by endorsement, at the latest 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 o
20、f patent rights. CEN and/or CENELEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all 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 met
21、adata standards intended to provide greater control, consistency and accuracy of the data in 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
22、 the case that the data that exists in many cultural organisations across Europe has been compiled 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 disparat
23、e sources, this standard, together with EN 15744, seeks to provide a bridge between the data 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 re
24、source identification, the aim of EN 15907 is to provide a framework for improved interoperability 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 th
25、is European Standard: 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, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerlan
26、d and the United Kingdom. DIN EN 15907:2010-12 EN 15907:2010 (E) 5 Introduction Cinematographic works 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
27、is known to have a significant impact on culture and education worldwide. This has been emphasized 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, librarie
28、s and other cultural organisations have the responsibility to both preserve and make film heritage accessible. This responsibility includes acquisition of culturally important works; preservation through good storage and duplication to modern stable formats; curatorial research and interpretation; a
29、nd programming and exhibition. Key to all of these activities is the responsibility of creating and 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 d
30、atabases are organized and implemented. Experts of all European countries have recognized that this 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
31、response to this mandate two standards, EN 15907:2010 and EN 15744:2009, have been developed to define 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, cine
32、matheques and any other cultural organisations with databases about audiovisual media. They will 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. Resea
33、rchers, universities, students and the general public will also benefit in that it will be easier 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, li
34、ke the primary users, will be able to organize their metadata as defined by the standard. In consequence, 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 cultura
35、l material in line with the objectives set out in the Commission Recommendation on the digitisation 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 t
36、he description of cinematographic works, as well as a comprehensive and consistent terminology, whereas EN 15744 defines and enables the selection of those data elements that are considered of prime importance for distinguishing and identifying individual cinematographic works. DIN EN 15907:2010-12
37、EN 15907:2010 (E) 6 1 Scope This European Standard specifies a set of metadata for the description of 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 model
38、s as well as for structuring hierarchically ordered and serialised representations of metadata about cinematographic 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 vocabular
39、ies are actively maintained by a standardisation body. 2 Normative references The following referenced 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 (includ
40、ing any amendments) applies. ISO 639-1, Codes for the representation of names of languages Part 1: Alpha-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 orga
41、nizations (ISIL) ISO/IEC 14882:2003, Programming languages C+ 3 Terms and definitions For the purposes 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 ca
42、rdinality number of times an instance of a relationship is permitted in a given context 3.3 data type 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
43、attributes. 3.5 element semantic unit that is a major component of an entity NOTE An element may have attributes and may be composed of other elements. DIN EN 15907:2010-12 EN 15907:2010 (E) 7 3.6 relationship association between the same or different entities NOTE Relationships may have attributes.
44、 4 Primary Entities 4.1 Cinematographic Work 4.1.1 General This entity forms the node that relates all variants 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
45、cinematographic medium. Since this process determines the characteristics which are expected to persist in 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
46、work include circumstances of the creation process such as date(s) and place(s) of production, most contributions 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
47、 defined at this level of description. If a statement about an “original format“ is required, then this may 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
48、as a cinematographic work. This includes pure performance works such as concerts, original theatre performances, 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 t
49、hey are part of an archive collection or if they have been edited, published or distributed by a known Agent. 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
