Metadata processing method, metadata storing method, metadata adding apparatus, control program and recording medium, and contents displaying apparatus and contents imaging apparatus

摘要

The present invention enables to select necessary metadata from presumed metadata candidates that are more likely to be added and to easily select metadata desired by a user, thereby reducing working load on a user largely, and facilitating the operation of adding shooting scene information even to a large amount of shot data recorded in a large-capacity recording medium. In order to achieve these objects, the present invention comprises: a processing process of detecting metadata associated with second contents data from the second contents data which is in a same category as first contents data; and a processing process of selectably outputting candidates of non-time information metadata to be stored, associated with the first contents data, in storing means, based on time information metadata and non-time information metadata associated with the second contents data and time information metadata associated with the first contents data which is to be added metadata next.