Content and Description Scalability Issues in a Home Network Environment

In this document an integration of the preexisting requirements for Digital Item Adaptation is proposed. The new requirement comes out considering that in some cases to solely adapt resources such as MPEG-7 descriptions of a same multimedia document is not the best approach. In this circumstance in order provide the user with the best multimedia experience it would be better to allow mechanisms for the generation of a compact and rich descriptions obtained by the integration/simplification of the initials ones. The proposal is then to extend the DIA requirement stated in document N4684 in order to support the integration not only aggregation of multiple descriptions of the same content.