An implementation of metadata exchange services for audio-visual contents using web services

摘要

In the present time, the fusion of the computer world, the communication world and the broadcast world is progressing. In addition, the development of multimedia technology standards and advanced technologies are changing the present audio-visual world (TV beyond TV), that can make various new service models, For example, TV-Anytime Forum is defining service models in which users can explore and acquire TV content distributed over a variety of sources. Moreover, users will be able to create their own digital entertainment packages, exchange and share information among users and redistribute contents among devices, systems or users, To make this real, metadata exchange in distributed environment is a key technology. Besides, Web services seem to have become the next important thing in computing today, because web services are representing an important evolutionary step in building distributed applications. Therefore in this paper, implementation of metadata exchange over IP networks using SOAP and Web Services are described and some experimental results are also