Neither DMS-1 or the SMPTE dictionary have keywords that match the ones we use today – although they are close. What can I do?
This question is very common as the various parts of our industry have developed similar but not identical paper and spreadsheet databases over the years. Many organizations have tried to map their pre-existing in-house schemas onto MXF’s “DMS-1” descriptive metadata scheme. All run into exactly this difficulty, which can be very frustrating. There are three routes out of the problem: • Accept the mappings that are very close and add your own Key-Value pairs for those where you don’t find an obvious match. For instance, you might decide to map DATELINE onto a keyword “Dateline” – which works so long as you don’t try to merge in data from someone who used the same keyword for a different purpose. • Choose one of the pre-existing entries, even if it does not appear exactly right. For example, you could use: Setting Date and Time (Characterized Time Period) and or Region of Setting (Characterized Place) for DATELINE, even though these terms sound like they are more for a drama production,
