Metadata 19.1

MediaHaven has a wide variety of metadata fields. This table list various information about these fields.

Legend

  • Key / Sub Key: The name of the field as it appears the metadata XML and JSON
  • Format: extra information about the format of the value, see Metadata Concepts for more information about the used terms
  • Read-only: This field cannot be modified in the user interface or API calls
  • Search: When performing a search query APIs you must used the flattened key, for example +Title:"Breaking News!" +KeywordsKeyword:Politics  
  • Searchable / Sortable: In the MediaHaven REST API you can search for it using this value if it is searchable and optionally sort the results (sortable).

Descriptive Fields

Descriptive fields are modifiable fields that describe files for purposes such as discovery.

KeySub KeyDescriptionFormatRead-onlySearchableSortable
Title
The title of the file

(tick)(tick)
Description
Description about the file

(tick)
CreationDate
The date and time the file was originally createdyyyy:MM:dd HH:mm:ss
(tick)(tick)
RightsOwner
The name of the (copyright) owner of the file



Rights

A description about how the file can or can not be disseminated.





Keywords
Series of keywords about the fileListField


KeywordsKeywordSub field of Keywords containing an individual keyword

(tick)
Categories
Series of categories about the fileListField


CategoriesCategorySub field of Categories containing an individual category

(tick)
Publisher
Publisher of the file



Authors
A list of various authors of the fileMulitItemField


AuthorsAuthor
Sub field of Authors containing an individual author

(tick)
Address
Address of corresponding with the LocationMulitItemField


AddressFormattedSub field of Address describing the full address in a single line, e.g. Trump Tower, 725 5th Ave, New York, NY 10022, Verenigde Staten
(tick)(tick)
Location
GPS coordinates corresponding with the Address



Publications
List of locations where the file is publishedListField


PublicationsCommentSub field of Publications describing a comme



OriginalFilename
The name of the file as it was ingested into MediaHaven

(tick)(tick)
UploadedBy
The name of the user that uploaded the file

(tick)


KeyframeStart

By default the the field PathToKeyframe refers to the closest keyframe before to time provided by the field FragmentStart. When KeyframeStart is defined it overrides this time.

frames (using a fictitious 25 fps)
(tick)(tick)

Administrative Fields

Administrative Fields are human readable read-only fields which are used for managing and preserving files in MediaHaven.

KeyDescriptionFormatRead-onlySearchableSortable
OrganisationNameThe name of the organisation to which the file belongs
(tick)(tick)
LastModifiedDateThe date and time when the file was last editedISO-8601(tick)(tick)(tick)

ExternalId

The ID of the file in an external platform. This field is only for advanced installations.
(tick)(tick)
ArchiveDateThe date and time the file was ingestedyyyy:MM:dd HH:mm:ss(tick)(tick)(tick)
TypeThe type of the file (e.g. image, document, page, image, layer, newspaperpage, article, video, videofragment, audio, audiofragment, set, collection, newspaper, metadataonly)
(tick)(tick)
DepartmentNameThe name of the department that published the file
(tick)(tick)
WorkflowDescribes through which workflow a file was ingested (if applicable)
(tick)(tick)
IngestTapeDescribes on which ingest tape the file was provided (if applicable)
(tick)(tick)
IsSynchronizedIndicates whether or not this file or fragment has been synchronized from another MediaHaven.0 or 1(tick)(tick)
ExternalUrlWhen this file has been sychronized from another MediaHaven, this URL refers to file in the web site of the original MediaHaven.URL(tick)

Technical Fields

Technical fields are predominantly read-only fields whose values are inherent to data file itself. (Re)-ingesting the file, possibly in a different MediaHaven, will result in exactly the same values.

Common

Key

DescriptionFormatRead-onlySearchableSortable
OriginalExtensionThe extension of the file as it was ingested into MediaHaven
(tick)(tick)
FileSizeThe size of the file in bytes
(tick)(tick)(warning) yes, but lexicographically
Md5The MD5 checksum of the file
(tick)
(tick)
MimeTypeThe mime type of the file, e.g. image/jpg
(tick)(tick)
PronomIdThe Pronom ID is a file identification mechanism developed by the National Archives 
(tick)(tick)
WidthThe width of the filepixels(tick)(tick)(warning) yes, but lexicographically
HeightThe height of the filepixels(tick)(tick)(warning) yes, but lexicographically
ImageSizeWidth times height, e.g 1920x1080pixels times pixels(tick)(tick)
ImageQualityThe quality of the image
  • high (image: 1920x1200, video: 1280x720)
  • medium (image: 1024x768, video: 720x540)
  • low
(tick)(tick)
ImageOrientationThe orientation of the image
  • panorama (aspect >= 2)
  • landscape (2 > aspect >= 1.1)
  • square (1.1 >= aspect > 0.9)
  • portrait (0.9 >= aspect > 0.5)
  • strip (aspect < 0.5)
(tick)(tick)

Time codes

Key

DescriptionFormatRead-onlySearchableSortable
DurationTimeCodeThe duration of the media fileHH:mm:ss.SSS(tick)

StartTimeCodeThe start time of the media fileHH:mm:ss.SSS
(tick)

EndTimeCodeThe end time of the media fileHH:mm:ss.SSS
(tick)

DurationFramesThe duration of the media file, expressed in frames against a fictitious 25 frames per secondframes (using a fictitious 25 fps)(tick)

StartFramesThe start time of the media file, expressed in frames against a fictitious 25 frames per secondframes (using a fictitious 25 fps)(tick)

EndFramesThe end time of the media file, expressed in frames against a fictitious 25 frames per secondframes (using a fictitious 25 fps)(tick)

Video 

Key

DescriptionFormatRead-onlySearchableSortable
VideoCodecDescription about the video encoding of the file
(tick)

VideoFpsFrames per second of the video in the fileframes per second (fps)(tick)

VideoBitRateAverage bit rate of the video in the filebits per second (bps)(tick)

AudioCodecDescription about the audio encoding of the file
(tick)

AudioChannelsTotal number of audio channels in the flle
(tick)

AudioSampleRateSample rate of the audio tracks in the fileHz(tick)

AudioBitRateTotal average bit rate of all audio tracks bits per second (bps)(tick)

BitRateTotal average bit rate of the container (includes video and audio)bits per second (bps)(tick)

MXF Video

Key

DescriptionFormatRead-onlySearchableSortable
OriginNumber of edit units to skip at the start of the source video codec before the logical of start of the essenceframes(tick)

EssenceOffsetFile offset to the first partition containing essencebytes(tick)

EditUnitByteSize
  • > 0: Constant Bit Rate (CBR) MXF: Each edit unit has this fixed size
  • 0: Variable Bit Rate (VBR) MXF: Edit units have a variable size
  • -1: Unrecognized edit unit structure
bytes(tick)

RunInFile offset to the first KLV in the file, typically 0bytes(tick)

FramesPerEditUnitNumber of frames per edit unitframes(tick)

EditRateNumber of edit units per second, if FramesPerEditUnit is 1 this equals the VideoFpsfraction(tick)

IndexEditRateAdvanced MXF feature, stored for future usagefraction(tick)

Internal Fields

Internal fields are read-only metadata fields proper to MediaHaven and often not a human readable format opposed to the administrative fields.

KeyDescriptionRemarkRead-onlySearchableSortable

MediaObjectId

The unique identifier of the file64 characters(tick)

FragmentId

The unique identifier of the fragment of the file96 characters(tick)(tick)
OriginalStatusStatus of the validation and ingest of the file
  • in_progress: file is being processed
  • completed: file is successfully stored on storage
  • failed: ingest failed and the file is not succesfully stored on storage
(tick)(tick)
BrowseStatusStatus of the creation of the preview of the file
  • in_progress: browse is being generated
  • completed: browse is successfully created
  • no_browse: no browse is created for this file type
  • cancelled: ingest failed before a browse was created
  • failed: browse could not be created
(tick)(tick)
ArchiveStatusThe possible values are documented here: Ingest Monitoring
(tick)(tick)
OrganisationIdThe ID of the organisation to which the file belongs to. The administrative field OrganisationName provides the human readable name.
(tick)(tick)
IngestSpaceIdThe ID of the ingest space the file belongs or belonged toUUID(tick)(tick)
IsInIngestSpaceWhether the file still belongs to an ingest space0 or 1(tick)(tick)
UploadedByIdThe user ID of the user that uploaded the file, the administrative field UploadedBy provides the human readable name.UUID(tick)(tick)
DepartmentIduuid of the department the file was published with, the administrative field DepartmentName provides the human readable name.UUID(tick)(tick)
IsFragmentIndicates whether or not the file is the main fragment or non-main fragment (i.e. page of a document, videofragment of a video)0 or 1(tick)

HasKeyframesIndicates whether or not the the file has a series of keyframes (applicable to documents, multi-page images, video and audio)0 or 1(tick)

ContainsGeoDataIndicates whether or not the file has geolocation data associated to it0 or 1(tick)(tick)

Browses 

KeySub Key #1Sub Key #2DescriptionRemarkRead-only
Browses

List of browse formats generated for the fileComplexField(tick)
BrowsesBrowse
Description of a single browse format of the fileMapField(tick)
BrowsesBrowseLabelUnique label of this browse format
(tick)
BrowsesBrowseContainerExtension of the container of this browse, e.g. jpg, mp4
(tick)
BrowsesBrowseBaseUrlURL to the path containing the files associated with this browse format
(tick)
BrowsesBrowsePathToKeyframeRelative path to the main still image of the file. Prefix with BaseUrl to obtain the complete URL.
(tick)
BrowsesBrowsePathToKeyframeThumbRelative path to the main still image of the file (thumb version). Prefix with BaseUrl to obtain the complete URL.
(tick)
BrowsesBrowsePathToVideoRelative path to the video preview of the file. Prefix with BaseUrl to obtain the complete URL.
(tick)
BrowsesBrowseFileSizeFile size of the PathToVideo for audio / video or PathToKeyframe for other content.bytes(tick)
BrowsesBrowseWidthWidth of the preview (PathToKeyframe)pixels(tick)
BrowsesBrowseHeightHeight of the preview (PathToKeyframe)pixels(tick)
BrowsesBrowse...All keys available under the item #Video on this same page
(tick)

Distributions 

KeySub KeyDescriptionRemarkRead-onlySearchable
Distributions
List of distribution channels where the file has been distributed toListField(tick)
DistributionsDistributionProvides information about a single channel in the form of <protocol>:<ID>, e.g. jwplayer:bZZVWxolprotocol:id(tick)(tick)

Structural Fields 

Structural fields provide how compound files such as collections are put together or how files are related between each other. Three categories exist: Fragments, Ensembles and Relations.

Fragments

KeySub KeyDescriptionRemarkRead-onlySearchableSortable
Fragments
Series of fragments belonging to this file. The main fragment which corresponds to the file itself (i.e. the entire video) is non contained in this series, hence this list is empty if the file contains no pure (= non main) fragments.ListField(tick)

FragmentsFragmentSub field of Fragments giving the FragmentId of each fragment this file containsFragmentId(tick)

MainFragment
For a pure fragment, this refers the FragmentId of main fragment. For the main fragment this field is empty.SimpleField(tick)

FragmentStartFrames
The start time of a fragment, relative to the start of the media file, expressed in frames against a fictitious 25 frames per secondframes (using a fictitious 25 fps)
(tick)(tick)
FragmentEndFrames
The end time of a fragment, relative to the start of the media file, expressed in frames against a fictitious 25 frames per secondframes (using a fictitious 25 fps)
(tick)(tick)
FragmentDurationFrames
The duration of a fragment, expressed in frames against a fictitious 25 frames per secondframes (using a fictitious 25 fps)(tick)

FragmentStartTimeCode
The start time of a fragment, relative to the start of the media fileHH:mm:ss.SSS



FragmentEndTimeCode
The end time of a fragment, relative to the start of the media fileHH:mm:ss.SSS



FragmentDurationTimeCode
The duration of a fragmentHH:mm:ss.SSS
(tick)

Ensembles

KeySub KeyDescriptionRemarkRead-onlySearchableSortable
Collections
Series of collections the file belongs toListField(tick)

CollectionsCollectionSub field of Collections providing the ID of an individual the collection the file belongs to
(tick)(tick)
Sets
Series of sets the file belongs toListField(tick)

SetsSetSub field of Sets providing the ID of an individual set the file belongs to
(tick)(tick)
Newspapers
Series of newspapers the file belongs toListField(tick)

NewspapersNewspaperSub field of Newspapers providing the ID of an individual newspaper the file belongs to
(tick)(tick)

Relations

KeySub KeyDescriptionRemarkRead-onlySearchableSortable
Relations
Series of files related with this file. Depending on your installation different sub fields of Relations might be defined.MultiItemField(tick)

RelationsPreviousVersionSub field of Relations providing the FragmentId of an individual file which is the previous version of this fileFragmentId(tick)(tick)
RelationsNextVersionSub field of Relations providing the FragmentId of an individual file which is the next version of this fileFragmentId(tick)(tick)
RelationsContainsSub field of Relations providing the FragmentId of an individual file which this file containsFragmentId(tick)(tick)
RelationsContainedBySub field of Relations providing the FragmentId of an individual file that contains this fileFragmentId(tick)(tick)
RelationsAssociatedSub field of Relations providing the FragmentId of an individual file which is associated with this fileFragmentId(tick)(tick)

Rights Management Fields 

Rights management fields provide information about who can access, edit or export files.

KeySub KeyDescriptionRemarkRead-onlySearchableSortable
Permissions
The different permissions associated with the fileMultiItemField(tick)

PermissionsReadSub field of Permissions providing ID of a user group with read rightsUUID(tick)(tick)
PermissionsWriteSub field of Permissions providing ID of a user group with write rightsUUID(tick)(tick)
PermissionsExportSub field of Permissions providing ID of the user groups with export rightsUUID(tick)(tick)
ExpiryDate
The date the file will expire (at this date the file will be assigned new rights). This field is only for advanced installations.yyyy:MM:dd HH:mm:ss
(tick)
ExpiryStatus
Whether or not the file is expired. This field is only for advanced installations.
(tick)(tick)

Changelog

Changes versus Metadata 18.4:

  1. Removed the column Search in this documentation because from now on the keys used in the search queries match with the flattened key of the field
  2. The old search keys are still supported for backwards compatibility
  3. New Technical field PronomId
  4. New Descriptive field KeyframeStart