AN XML METABASE FOR THE ORGANISATION AND MANIPULATION OF DIGITAL MEDIA

摘要

Described is the architecture and implementation of a metabase specifically designed for the organization, management and manipulation of digital media assets. In this context the term digital media refers to a sequence of digitally encoded video and/or audio samples. The metabase is a collection of node objects which can be implemented as XML elements and organized in a tree-like or hierarchical structure that emanates from a single root node, and stored in disk drive storage or internal cache storage as discussed subsequently. Two node objects used to form this structure are the folder and the binder