Metadata Sidecar

Description

From 18.4 onwards MediaHaven uses a new sidecar format which has a one-on-one correspondence with the metadata fields and metadata families.

The sidecar format is now namespaced with two namespaces: one for the sidecar skeleton itself (mhs) and one for the MediaHaven metadata fields (mh). Note the version number in the namespace URIs. 

Namespace MHS

• URI: https://zeticon.mediahaven.com/metadata/<version>/mhs/

• XSD: https://zeticon.mediahaven.com/metadata/<version>/mhs.xsd

Namespace MH

• URI: https://zeticon.mediahaven.com/metadata/<version>/mh/

• XSD: https://zeticon.mediahaven.com/metadata/<version>/mh.xsd

Strategy

An advanced feature is the use of the attribute strategy on a top level metadata field: Metadata Strategy.

Versions

When the metadata format changes during a release, a new namespace with that release number will be present. However you can still keep submitting using the namespace of the previous metadata versions. Note that not every release of MediaHaven (4 per year), will have a new metadata version, in which case the metadata version number keeps the version number of a previous release. 

MediaHaven has the following list of metadata versions

Backwards compatibility 

You can keep using the old format External Metadata [deprecated] with the system converting the old format into the new format under the hood. But we encourage the customers to switch to new formats because it will be default for the documentation and new features.