Report of CE on Metadata Adaptation – Integration

This paper summarize the final results of the CE on MPEG-21 Digital Item Adaptation – Integration. The CE was started at the Shanghai meeting (see document N5182) and due to the fact that not all the expected goals were achieved the CE has been extended to the Pattaya meeting (see document N5362). In the original work plan definition, the principal objectives to better evaluate if the current DIA Metadata Adaptability tools can fully support the integration of multiple MPEG-7 descriptions of a given content. The main contribution of this CE is an enhanced implementation of the metadata integration engine presented in the previous CE report and the definition of syntax and semantic for a new MPEG-21 DIA MetadataAdaptability tool useful in a metadata integration processes.